Saudi efforts to deradicalize their form of Islam in an effort to modernize is vitally important for the world if we are to finally defeat Islamist terrorism.
I've long said that our
military actions are a necessary holding action to protect ourselves in
the West and to support Moslem states battling terrorists until the
Islamic world can resolve their civil war in favor of non-nutballs.
But is the Saudi effort really deradicalizing individual terrorists? I'm
not sure that is the metric. Those fanatics might be better treated with
guns and prison.
I want the deradicalization to stop the pipeline at the
beginning with the young people who are recruited to terrorism. Things could always be worse, can't they? MBS is no prize by Western standards, but by Saudi standards he's a good start.
Nobody should want endless shooting wars. The only way to avoid that is to help the Islamic world win its civil war.
About Me
- Brian J. Dunn
- I live and write in Ann Arbor, Michigan. University of Michigan AB and MA from Eastern Michigan University. One term in the Michigan Army National Guard. Former American history instructor and retired nonpartisan research analyst. I write on Blogger and Substack. Various military and private journals have published my occasional articles on military subjects. See "My Published Works" on the TDR web version or under the mobile version drop-down menu for citations and links.
