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<b>The West Needs To Fight Islamofascists With Big Ideas</b>

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->BY YOUSSEF IBRAHIM
September 1, 2006

 
The West's war on terror is going tactically well enough, with its mission to put out fires here and there before they start. But it sorely misses the larger strategy that must be implemented. The concept is this: <b>It isn't enough to get the guys with the bombs or beards but to alter the environment that produces them.</b>

Just like the war on communism, the war on terror must combine the force of arms with the power of ideas, a higher moral purpose with a mechanism of action. In other words, the West, along with Russia and China — which have no interest in jihadist uprisings within their own territories, needs a roadmap for its war on terror, clearly detailing its ultimate goals and how it will achieve them.

Such a strategy must be forged in G-8 Summit Meetings as well as the manuals of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the parliaments of the European Union. <b>It must be defined unambiguously as the obliteration of an ideology that reduces Islam to a cult of mass murder and suicide.</b>

Here is a blueprint:

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