This is exactly the sort of logic that ought to be keeping Americans up at night: "The threat from Somalia." I have to give the Washington Post's editorial board credit for letting the courage of their convictions lead them to the logical extreme of counterinsurgency strategy, but honestly, is there any way to not view this as insane? I doubt this argument is acceptable in polite company even amongst the most ardent counterinsurgency advocates.
I used the Post's editorials in my grad thesis as a straw man representing how outrageously alarmist American analysis of the August war in Georgia was last summer. I'm glad to see that future generations of students writing on US foreign policy will have the same crutch...
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Washington Post has by far the worst editorial board of any major newspaper in America -- perhaps the world. It is so disapointing to watch the WaPo fall so far so fast.
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