Reply to Ryan Goodman 3 of 4 - Politics behind
Politics behind Ryan Goodman, a professor of Law of Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz at New York University, writes the following; "… Sri Lanka’s historic defeat of an insurgency is emerging as a competing model to US counterinsurgency and counterterrorism strategy. It is a draconian alternative that, if adopted by other militaries, risks counterproductive and blowback effects to the detriment of US interests." Goodman has not paid enough attention to the significant difference between these two models of counterterrorism operations, the US model and the Sri Lankan model. While the US counterterrorism operations are conducted on foreign territories the Sri Lankan counterterrorism operation was conducted within its own territory. These are the operations I refer to as US counterterrorism operations – Goodman does the same. This is a significant different. Unlike the Sri Lankan operation, I point out, this different causes each US counterterrorism operation