Though its professed long-term ideology is capturing state power by force, in its day-to-day manifestation, it is to be looked upon as basically a fight for social justice, equality, protection, security and local development".
Thus our strategy must match our means to two ends: dismantling the Al Qaeda network and, in the long term, prevailing over the ideology that contributes to Islamist terrorism.
The Damascus government's attempts to blame "foreign terrorists" and al-Qaeda for the country's difficulties harks back to its long term opposition to militant Sunni ideology.
And in order to fight a warped and worsening ideology in the long term we need to recognise that education is a security issue.
It has no ideology, no core beliefs, no long term plan other than being there and staying close to the game.
The UAVs will never accomplish a long term strategic reordering of Pushtunistan or eliminate al-Qaeda ideology from its mountain hideouts and humming online servers.
So while he seems a perfect solution for the immediate term, his personal ideology is unlikely to bring the party long term peace.
Anyone motivated by solidarity or ideology to violently remove a foreign head of state risks arrest and a very long term of imprisonment when they return to UK.
RC Well of course if you take a long term view all of this is very interconnected, but I notice that one driver is not mentioned and that's ideology – political, religious, national, ethnic, what I would call ideology.
