With ETA proposing a permanent cease-fire, the Red Brigade not having shown up for a long time, HAMAS getting legitimacy... what is happening to traditional terrorist movements?
My guess is that for more moderate viewpoints - which excludes HAMAS - terrorism doesn't engender sympathy or funding like it may have in the past. There is certainly not the same precedent of negotiating demands. We might be seeing the end of the Cold War era terrorist groups.
Thoughts? Predictions? Disagreements with mine?
All democracies are only as strong as their ability to compromise. Hamas as a party is much too extremist to survive as an effective tool of Palestine democracy. If anything they will be lumped in with the corrupt Fatah party as examples of how NOT to run a democratic Muslim nation.
ReplyDeleteI blame the decline in terrorism on the spread of post-modern nihilism. The meta-narrative of national liberation is as dead as the bi-polar world. Terrorism in the future will take on a more global character, like Al-Queda or some of the more radical elements of the Anti-globalization movement.
ReplyDelete(Hmm.. actually, regional terrorism will probably always have some traction.. got to go..)