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@@ -1165,3 +1165,29 @@ Counterinsurgency goes domestic:
eradicate them, initially through police arrests, then through criminal
prosecutions (for instance, of the New York 21) and justified homicides [...]
and ultimately by fomenting conflict and divisiveness within the party
+
+ [...]
+
+ The linchpin of a domesticated counterinsurgency is to bring total
+ information awareness home. Just as it was developed abroad, it is total
+ surveillance alone that makes it possible to distinguish the active minority on
+ domestic soil from the passive masses of Americans. A fully transparent
+ population is the first requisite of the counterinsurgency method. In General
+ Petraeus’s field manual, it received a full chapter early on, “Intelligence in
+ Counterinsurgency,” with a pithy and poignant epigraph: “Everything good that
+ happens seems to come from good intelligence.” And as the manual began, so it
+ ended, with the following simple mantra: “The ultimate success or failure of the
+ [counterinsurgency] mission depends on the effectiveness of the intelligence effort."
+
+ [...]
+
+ American is a potential insurgent.
+ Constant vigilance of the American population is necessary—hand in hand
+ with the appearance of trust. Appearances are vital. A domesticated
+ counterinsurgency must suspect everyone in the population, but not let it be
+ known. This posture, developed in counterinsurgency theory decades ago, was at
+ the core of the paradigm. David Galula had refined it to a witty statement he
+ would tell his soldiers in Algeria: “One cannot catch a fly with vinegar. My rules
+ are: outwardly you must treat every civilian as a friend; inwardly you must
+ consider him as a rebel ally until you have positive proof to the contrary.” 2 This
+ mantra has become the rule today—at home.