One of the greatest idiocy of the 21st Century must be the War on Terror.

Why do I say so? The reason being that it is a war that can never be won. After all, terrorism is but a tactic used by its perpetrators. Just how does one declare war on a tactic and expect to win? That is a question you must ask the dumbest U.S. President ever – George W. Bush – and his fumb duck administration regime.

This isn’t the same as declaring war on an political ideology – for e.g. communism – where you can exploit the flaws of of the system that is based on it. To declare war on terrorism is about the same as declaring war on Sun Tzu’s Art of War or von Clausewitz’s On War. Generally speaking, both of these works explore how to effectively conduct a war or fight battles and to win them. In other words, when you beat someone who used a tactic he learnt from Sun Tzu’s Art of War, does it mean you have defeated the book and the tactic itself? Will it stop that tactic from being used again?

It could simply mean that that tactic was badly applied or inappropriate for that situation. Above which, bringing the might of conventional forces upon the terrorists is simply forcing the terrorist to fight on your terms which thus allow you to beat / kill them. Does that really constitute a victory against the tactic called ‘terrorism’? Will killing the likes of Osama bin Laden, or his successors, bring an end to terrorism?

Simply put, to declare war on terrorism is nothing more than an ill conceived notion that it will come to an end once you killed enough of those who fight on the side of those who apply the tactic. That is terrorism in itself, and it says a lot about the idiots – including that of our government gahmen – which support this hare-brained war.

Even if terrorism had been a political system / ideology like Communism, was it defeated on the fields of battle? Look at North Korea and Vietnam – all of these engagements didn’t end in an American victory. But today everyone can see communism as a dead end in these countries and other than North Korea, just who practices Communism anymore?

So this is how Communism was really defeated in the end! It was only defeated when the people who once supported and lived under it no longer believed that it worked for them and make the necessary changes. Indeed, when we look at the ‘War on Terror’, it simply affirms the fact that when we looked at our history, we discovered that we never learn from it at all.

Frankly, the so-called ‘War on Terror’ has not made the world more stable or secure. In fact, it did the contrary. While enhanced security measures now makes it more difficult for acts of terror to be perpetrated, look at the disruption it has brought to our lives when we take flights, use our public transports and even something as simple as finding a rubbish bin to throw away a useless receipt.

However, we must thank the ‘War on Terror’. It is one of the many things that managed to terminate Nixon’s ‘Southern Strategy’, an election strategy which brought an end to one generation of Democrat political dominance since Franklin Roosevelt. It is also an election strategy which for the past 36 years, put 4 Republican Presidents (Nixon, Reagan, Bush Senior and Junior) into the White house while the Democrats only managed to put in two (Carter and Clinton).

George W. Bush, has not only proven that he is the dumbest President in American history so far, he has also brought to an end a generation of Republican dominance in American politics. Once the Republican’s conservative stand has represented stability and security, George W. Bush and the current Republican party took matters too far and brought it to an end.

The idiotic ‘War on Terror’, among with the current economic crisis, are just one of the many things that brought many Americans to that realization. And if Obama manage to pull the American economy through this crisis, it will probably usher in a generation of political dominance by the Democrats. The Republicans will continue to be sidelined until some genius comes along and save that party.

Would a similar change come to Singapore? Perhaps, but it will not be the promise of change. It will only come when the people realised that the parties or candidates they traditionally support and voted for, can no longer provide the security and stability they have always represented.

In short, all that from Baby Lee about change coming to this country will not come from a two-party system but from renewal within the Tali-PAP… is nothing more but a load of horse dump.

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