Comments on: The Enemy Next Door: Hezbollah in South America http://www.roguelystated.com/2007/05/31/the-enemy-next-door-hezbollah-in-south-america/ Commentary, analysis, and reporting on US and international security. Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:07:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bat One http://www.roguelystated.com/2007/05/31/the-enemy-next-door-hezbollah-in-south-america/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Bat One Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:15:59 +0000 http://roguelystated.com/2007/05/31/the-enemy-next-door-hezbollah-in-south-america/#comment-32 The fact that "CNN will certainly never cover it..." may well be the chief advantage of that new Paraguayan Counterterrorist force. The political climate in the US today does not allow for the kind of committed consensus necessary for an all-out fight against Islamist terrorism. Besides, as the Israelis have demonstrated, the most effective means of dealing with terrorism is the sort of asymmetrical, below the radar operations that this Paraguayan force could come to represent. The fact that “CNN will certainly never cover it…” may well be the chief advantage of that new Paraguayan Counterterrorist force.

The political climate in the US today does not allow for the kind of committed consensus necessary for an all-out fight against Islamist terrorism. Besides, as the Israelis have demonstrated, the most effective means of dealing with terrorism is the sort of asymmetrical, below the radar operations that this Paraguayan force could come to represent.

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