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Originally Posted by pshrynk
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If we go to war, let's go to farking war and win. Let's have a targetable enemy and wipe them out. Let's go to the country where the enemy is and destroy his capacity to wage war against us. Let's have good intelligence and use it appropriately.
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Unfortunately Terrorists are not an easily "targetable enemy" and they do not make up the entirety or even the majority of any "country" nor are they restricted from being a member of any country. E.g. the Oklahoma bombing was done by a US "locally grown" terrorist.
In fact the whole idea of terrorism is to make the terrorists as untargetable as possible - i.e. to hid among "normal" people. Something else I finally realized is that the goal of terrorists is not "necessarily" to kill but to scare (or terrorize) us all into a panic that we might be killed or maimed.