Has America Defeated Jihadism?
The undisputed and indisputable superiority of NATO and the United States from the technological point of view was not adequate to defeat jihadism. Italics by Giuseppe Gagliano
It is difficult not to mention the defeat of the West on the occasion of the tragic anniversary of 11 September. Presenting the US-organized airlift from Kabul as a military success by General Austin is unequivocal proof of the decline of the American empire.
The undisputed and indisputable superiority of NATO and the United States from a technological point of view was not adequate to defeat jihadism: political inability, the absence of a real medium-long term strategy, inability to counter an asymmetrical war as it once was. on the other hand that of Vietnam or that which faced the French in Indochina. In the end, the determined religious fanaticism prevailed over the democratic values of the West, the West which today must necessarily bargain precisely with those whom until yesterday it considered its worst enemies. And let's not forget that Qatar has certainly played an important role in future relations with the Afghan government and remains the seat by election, par excellence, of the Muslim Brotherhood.
But if America cries, France certainly does not laugh since its defeat is a fact in Mali. The ideological fanaticism on the one hand, the total and absolute unscrupulousness in sacrificing one's life for one's religious ideals and the equally cynical unscrupulousness in eliminating one's adversaries in the most ruthless and cruel ways make Islamic terrorists very fearsome enemies. Enemies in front of which the values of the West seem to melt like snow in the sun. At least until now. With regard to the pathetic, cowardly and cowardly gregariousness of the allies who, as always, are queued to American choices, it is not even worth spending a few words.
But among the gross, inadmissible and dramatic political errors Gianandrea Gaiani in Defense Analysis highlights two: "Washington's ambiguity reached its peak during the eight years of the Obama administration with the support of Islamic extremism from the Muslim Brotherhood , evident in the so-called Arab springs which saw the fall of the Tunisian and Egyptian regimes and led the Sunni monarchies and the Arab world in general to distrust the USA. Not to mention the military and political support for the "revolutions" in Libya and Syria: in the first the Central Mediterranean was destabilized at the gates of Italy and in the second jihadist movements and militias that refer to the same ideology were openly armed by Western powers. of the terrorists who carried out massacres in Europe and the United States. "
It is clear that a defeat of this magnitude will only strengthen Islamic fundamentalism by inducing it to plan attacks in the very heart of Europe and forcing the security services to work even more complex than what has already been done up to now. But Islamic terrorism has a great advantage: it can strike at any time, in any place, with simple or even refined tools. In short, it has the advantage of surprise and speed of execution.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/lamerica-ha-sconfitto-lo-jihadismo/ on Sun, 12 Sep 2021 06:41:21 +0000.