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Originally posted by Sonart,
We simply CAN'T kill them all, at least not without killing thousand upon thousands of innocent civilians. We start doing that and we'll be dealing with MILLIONS of terrorists. Think Vietnam on a global scale. Won't that be fun. |
bingo.
conservative military types insist on viewing terrorist organisations as a finite group of individuals engaging in combat against an enemy (the west), who can potentially be identified, located, and eliminated.
they can't.
terrorist groups are fluid organisations that are based not in terms of a conventional hierarchy of leadership, but rather on a common belief that they are being wronged by the enemy.
the more individuals you kill - without addressing their underlying greivances - the stronger they get. this has been proven time and time again.
yet still conservatives insist on discussing it in terms of conventional "war", and their enemy as individuals, like osama. killing osama will not stop al qaeda for one minute.