Pentagon promotes idea of 100 year war

A story copied below tells how the Pentagon is promoting the notion of a 100 year war -- to the country at large and anyone willing to listen to their idiotic plan of non-attack:

"The Pentagon's Joint Staff is very secretive but it is coming out of the shadows
to better promote the idea that the global war on terrorism will bea "Long War"
of perhaps 100 years' duration. "

Personally, I give it no more than 10 years, with a possibility of something major happening almost any time. If you live in NY or DC, I recommend you start digging your fallout shelter.

"The briefing states that Al Qaida "has exploited a frustrated
populace, increased communications, and improved tactics to inspire a global
movement committed to establishing extremists domination over much of the
world.""

This is like aligning your gunsights with a bent stick. AQ has exploited incompetence, demonstrated weakness, and very bad philosophy ranging from multiculturalism to raw, undiluted altruism all the way to out and out pacifism, and a plethora of U.S. government policies implementing it. All that other stuff is secondary and like planning to win WWII by winning hearts and minds of the people in Frankfurt with a letter writing campaign. Has the Pentagon ever heard of the concept of "strategic thinking"?

"'The extremists believe that only through total extremists domination can the
Ummah once again be prominent in the world," the briefing states,...[and]
discloses a 20-year Al Qaida plan to create an Islamist extremist homeland in the
Middle East."

Extremist, extremist, extremist. Clueless, clueless, clueless Pentagon "experts". Maybe we could get them to see the light if we ask the CIA to subject them to a "waterboarding" to wash their heads of such notions?Nope, that won't work. You can't clean an empty void. (I wonder how many of the people behind this policy are coming out of academic "thinktanks"?Probably ... most.)

"By 2010, Al Qaida plans on the "Demise of Arab governments." All this
will culminate in an Islamic caliphate in 2013, when Al Qaida and Islamists
gain powerful new allies such as China, and Europe declines into disunity."

Hasn't Europe already declined?

"The "Total Confrontation" period will commence from 2015 to 2020 with
the creation of an Islamic Army that will begin a worldwide fight
against believers and nonbelievers. The "Definitive Victory" will be reached in
2020 when the Islamists will assume power globally."

Clearly, AQ doesn't see a 100 year war. More like 13 years. However, if we put Ethiopia in charge of defeating them, I have no doubt AQ can be defeated in two weeks. (http://www.geostrategy-direct.com/geostrategy-direct/secure/2006/12_27/ba.asp)

Pentagon briefings reveal Al Qaida's 20-year plan, inevitability of 'LongWar'
The Pentagon's Joint Staff is very secretive but it is coming out of the shadows to better promote the idea that the global war on terrorism will bea "Long War" of perhaps 100 years' duration.

A Joint Staff briefing, entitled the "Long War," is given five or six times a week within the Pentagon to various public audiences and as many as 60 times around the country. The goal is to help the American people andleaders better understand the nature of the conflict, the enemy and its actions and the U.S. strategy and tactics for defeating them.

"It is not just about Iraq or Afghanistan. It involves the whole world and it
involves the whole government," said Air Force Brig. Gen. Mark Schissler, deputy
director of the war on terrorism within the Joint Staff J-5 strategy office.

According to the briefing, Al Qaida remains the main threat but it is also changing. The terrorist group is succeeding in making more connections around the globe, especially in Muslim-dominated regions where Islamists seek to re-establish a caliphate. These include North Africa, SouthernEurope, the Middle East, and parts of Central and Southeast Asia.

"We see them reaching out a little more regionally and globally and you
see groups that previously had not favored Al Qaida in some cases joining up with
them now," Schissler said. For example, terrorists in North Africa in the past
had refused to join Al Qaida but recently have started to join forces with the
group headed by Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri.

The briefing states that Al Qaida "has exploited a frustrated populace, increased communications, and improved tactics to inspire a global movement committed to establishing extremists domination over much of the world."

"The extremists believe that only through total extremists domination can the
Ummah once again be prominent in the world," the briefing states, noting that Bin
Laden has boasted that "the pious caliphate will start fromAfghanistan."

The briefing discloses a 20-year Al Qaida plan to create an Islamist extremist homeland in the Middle East. The seven-stage plan began with the September 11 attacks as "The Awakening," "Eye-Opening," in 2003 when U.S.troops took Baghdad. The plan will continue with the "Arising and Standing Up" in 2007 with a new focus on Syria and Turkey, and also more direct confrontations with Israel to try to gain more credibility among Muslims.

By 2010, Al Qaida plans on the "Demise of Arab governments." All this willculminate in an Islamic caliphate in 2013, when Al Qaida and Islamists gain powerful new allies such as China, and Europe declines into disunity.

The "Total Confrontation" period will commence from 2015 to 2020 with the creation of an Islamic Army that will begin a worldwide fight againstbelievers and nonbelievers.

The "Definitive Victory" will be reached in 2020 when the Islamists will assume power globally.