anyone notice new bushite term: "Weapons of Mass Effect" ?? WME !

[diamond14]

and another new bushite term: "Salafist jihadists" refers to Muslim fundamentalists (guess 'fundamentalist' reminds too many people of bush* base)....

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26054-2004Dec25.html

Abizaid argues that this enemy is especially dangerous because it has fused an atavistic Salafist ideology with the most modern tools of technology. "The enemy has a virtual connectivity we haven't seen before with guerrilla groups," he says. "They use the Internet to pass along techniques, tactics, procedures, advice." He believes the jihadists have been clever in using the global media -- both to spread their message among followers and to intimidate adversaries. Indeed, the media are their best weapon.

The Salafist vanguard seeks victory through what Abizaid calls "weapons of mass effect" -- the 9/11 attacks, the suicide bombings in Baghdad, the gruesome beheadings in Fallujah -- which seek to destabilize the United States and its allies through the media. "We have nothing to fear from this enemy other than its ability to create panic," he argues. "This enemy is like water -- it seeks an unguarded path. They'll go for the place they can use a weapon of mass effect -- and gain a media victory."

[whistle]

1. And the U.S. response is mass retaliation without discrimination

...just like street thugs.

[Gnaeus]

2. Our media is so poor that...

... we understand the dangers of car seats more than the terrorism "experts" understand the enemy.

[Fovea]

3. They are like water

America is like a seive.

[diamond14]

4. seems like another rovian ploy: WME replaces WMD and keeps

American illusion that THE WAR WAS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, because saddam had WME (weapons of mass effect)...hell, it sounds about the same.....justifies the entire massacre with a little spinning....I expect to hear the NEW term coming out from every stink-tank talk show scum, and from all White House minion comments, and from bush* and rummy and all those criminals....

[MADem]

5. Mush for the frightened children

Basically, it's the same shit the weecowboy is doing to us....two sets of battlebots, identical philosophies, summed up for those of us caught in the crossfire in three lousy words: BE VERY AFRAID.

The only real area of dispute is just which bunch of thugs we should be most afraid of? It's like a contest between early morning or late night TV shows...Leno or Letterman? Today or Good Morning America? Faux or CNN? Damned if ya do, damned if ya don't.

It's all horseshit.

Jesus, we had Saddam in a box before all this crap--it was called the no-fly zone. We probably knew as much about him then (when he got up, when he had breakfast, when he took a dump) as we do now. Of course, we couldn't find bin Hidin', so he was a useful substitute...hell, most morons don't know the difference, to this day.

If there was no oil over there, we wouldn't be anywhere NEAR that joint, except maybe to buy some nice handmade carpets and some high quality gold bracelets and chains.

[Sweet Pea]

6. Nothing new here

This term has been used for a while in national security environs for at least a couple of years. It encompasses not only weapons that can cause widespread destruction but also can cause severe effects such as chemical or biological attacks.

[diamond14]

7. no...WME is being used to describe "suicide bombs""beheadings"

used to describe the MASS EFFECT of "fear" caused by these weapons: suicide bombers and beheadings...and IMO, it's hard to call a 'beheading', a 'weapon'... anyhow, WME is that ability to create panic.....


and the reality is: the ability to create panic or fear is NOT A WEAPON.....bombs are weapons.....

[Sweet Pea]

8. Well...

depending on how it is used, anything can be a weapon - financial things, economics, information, military, even foreign relations. It is all tied to how something is used - a rolled-up newspaper can be a weapon to kill someone, as can the content inside can be used to cause an effect on someone/something.

For a long time the military has been doing their targeting evolutions with an "effects-based" formula - what do you want to do with a target? Do you want to obliterate it from the face of the earth or just take something offline for a few days? What is the "effect" you want to achieve? Same thing can be applied to the tactics you mention above - beheadings, suicide bombings - what is the effect they want to achieve? Fear, obviously, which is an "effect-based" outcome.

[The Stranger]

9. Greater than the world's most deadly armies,

beware the power of an idea whose time has come. (Victor Hugo (paraphrased).

It is knowledge and intelligence that they fear disseminating.

[klyon]

10. guess that is bad for them because we will use WMD

our weapons will WME, yea death

KL