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Originally posted by Reggie Dunlop@Sep 7 2004, 10:45 AM
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Originally Posted by FlamesAllTheWay,Sep 7 2004, 09:30 AM
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Originally Posted by FlamesAllTheWay,Sep 7 2004, 05:42 AM
These radicals in the Middle East seem to have quite a crop of people to pick from as new recruits. Couple that with what I said above and the fact that most of the media sources over there have a distinct anti-American slant to them, and it's not that hard to imagine my initial statment: that for every terrorist that's rounded up or killed, 2 more are created.
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Go out and kill them too. Keep killing them until they surrender.
It's not like they're the Junior Chamber of Commerce or anything
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Kill them until they surrender? They'll never surrender. Terrorism is based on ideals or religion or a cause of somesort. As long as that's kicking around, there'll always be people willing to follow it. Going in with guns a blazing only strengthens that, in my mind.
Besides, if Iraq is any real indication, an all out attack with a large, state of the art, artillery backed military isn't working out so well. Maybe against dictators and their armies where the enemy is clear as well as their location, but not against terrorism. They can just scurry across the border into some other country or go into hiding for awhile. And they fight dirty too, so tossing a group of marines in a crowded street only makes a nice target for a suicide bomber. So unless you're prepared to blow the crap out of cities and towns where these terrorists might be holed up in a church or something, I don't think conventional military means is the way to go.
But that's just me...