QUOTE: Legitimacy for global guerrillas

Monday, 14 August 2006

QUOTE: Legitimacy for global guerrillas

"If there was just one Nasrallah in every Arab country -- one person with his dedication, intelligence, courage, strength and commitment -- Arabs would not have had to suffer stolen land and defeat at the hands of Israel for 50 years,"said an Arab celebrity, Kuwaiti actor Daoud Hussein on Al-Jazeera. (Faiza Saleh Ambah, Arab World Riveted by Coverage of the 'Sixth War." Washington Post. August 14, 2006.)

This quote reflects an increasingly common desire: that global guerrillas (non-state forces that use 4GW tactics) are the only way to provide protection against external foes (and potentially against the depredations of their own internationally impotent but domestically repressive governments). Hezbollah's victory (locked in by the ceasefire that will, despite its language, allow the group to retain both its tactical and strategic capabilities) has engineered a sea change in perception.

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