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Originally Posted by alansmithee
The way to combat both drugs and terrorism in my opinion is to make it too costly to take part in either. Obviously what we are doing not is not great enough deterrent, so we must up the ante. To combat terrorism effectively through warfare, we must essentially behave as the terrorists-we must humiliate, degrade, and kill those deemed as terrorists or terrorist sympathisers. We must let them know that terrorist attacks will not be tolerated, and make sure that the populace is more afraid of what we will do to them then what the terrorists would do to them. Obviously, this would not happen, but I do believe it to be the most effective way of dealing with the current wave of terrorist activity.
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if they're already willing to die for their cause, why do you think humiliating and degrading them is going to stop them? even the sympathisers... it's just gonna piss them off more and push them even further. they aren't little kids that you can spank in public and they'll change their behaviors. to combat terrorism you have to stop the current wave while removing the atomosphere that 'grew' them in the first place. degrading and humiliating them isn't going to remove that atomosphere, it'll just make it worse.