Where does it stop?
Wretchard at the Belmont Club has some interesting thoughts on where we're headed during this war on terrorism:
The false debate over whether US military action should have taken place in Iraq or in Afghanistan obscures the fact that no matter where conventional military action is employed there will always be one more country, one more failed state, one more sanctuary to which the Jihad's terror training camps can move. With the Third World full of failed or failing states, there's no shortage of places which Islamic radicals can simply destabilize by rerouting their funding and redeploying their killers. If Pakistan were lost Africa or Central Asia would provide places in which to relocate their training camps.
That raises the question of whether Pakistan -- or any place like Pakistan -- is really ever the center of gravity at all. Pakistan, even if invaded, subdued and cleaned up at great cost, is an ultimately replaceable asset to the Jihad. The real center of gravity may be the intellectual centers of radicalism, based in the "religious" schools of the Middle East, Europe or America or on the Internet; it may lie in the funding networks that are basically sustained by oil revenues; it may exist in Muslim ghettos of Western Europe, agitated by a mixture of leftist ideology and Wahabism. That may be the center of gravity, the real beating heart of the terror system.
We're in a struggle for our very civilization- it's too bad so many can't seem to see that. The Enlightened Free West, it was good to know ye'...