Quote Originally Posted by davidbfpo View Post
A twenty minute TED talk, March 2014:

Link:http://www.ted.com/talks/karima_benn...make_headlines

She is an Arab-American, of Algerian heritage and now a university law professor; her bio:http://www.karimabennoune.com/about-karima/
People like Ms. Bennoune and those she describes and writes about are the most important people in the world when it comes to combating the takfiri killers. Probably more important than the spec-ops super soldiers, the intelligence community upon which we spend so much and all the Preds, Reapers and carrier battle groups that sail the seas and the skies. We must find a way to support them if we can if only by acknowledging their existence and importance.

At the same time, as the experience of Algeria seems to demonstrate, those people have to be protected and I suppose that is where the force comes in. I don't think the one can prevail without the other but we need to see that without the kinds of people Ms. Bennoune describes, the force means nothing.

This brings to my mind once more the importance of the war in Algeria in the 90s. We must learn in detail about that war and how it was conducted.