{"id":58155,"date":"2016-03-30T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58155"},"modified":"2016-03-28T11:09:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T16:09:56","slug":"a-new-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58155","title":{"rendered":"A New War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Fernandez &#8211; one of the best foreign-policy writers going, these days &#8211; notes what&#8217;s\u00a0<em>really\u00a0<\/em>important about Brussels, and most likely Paris, and, let&#8217;s be honest, the next massacre, coming soon to a major soft target near (some of) you (emphasis added):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That [Salah Abdeslam, planner of the Paris attacks] was found just a short distance from where police had been looking for him for weeks should have clued Obama in to the possibility that he had a base of sympathizers. Abdeslam&#8217;s ability to go to ground\u00a0right under the noses of the Belgian authorities should have suggested that\u00a0<strong>European\u00a0counterterrorism\u00a0was mutating into something more deadly:\u00a0counterinsurgency.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Counter-terrorism is the police vs a &#8220;handful of killers&#8221;.\u00a0 Counterinsurgency is the state vs a rival state<\/strong>.\u00a0 The attack on Brussels may mean Trofimov was right: Obama&#8217;s handful of killers now had a <strong>social base of potential sympathizers legally indistinguishable from the original European inhabitants<\/strong> and\u00a0from which they could\u00a0launch attacks at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2016\/03\/22\/bomb-blasts-rip-into-heart-of-europe.html?via=mobile&amp;source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;very heart of Europe&#8221;<\/a>, as Christopher Dickey described Brussels in the Daily Beast.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The war in Europe today is different only in scale &#8211; for now &#8211; from the beginnings of the Vietnam War, where a motivated minority with support from a belligerent waged guerrilla war against the South without need of a formal declaration.<\/p>\n<p>And yet President Obama and his Euro-progressive ideological cousins continue\u00a0to treat the ongoing terror offensive in Europe as nothing more than an outburst of lawlessness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Fernandez &#8211; one of the best foreign-policy writers going, these days &#8211; notes what&#8217;s\u00a0really\u00a0important about Brussels, and most likely Paris, and, let&#8217;s be honest, the next massacre, coming soon to a major soft target near (some of) you (emphasis added): That [Salah Abdeslam, planner of the Paris attacks] was found just a short distance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58156,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58155\/revisions\/58156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}