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Originally Posted by nezmot
It's a bit late now, but if we'd quietly infiltrated their organisations and ruthlessly killed off their leaders, rather than waging a brutal, indiscriminate, clumsy, noisy and arguably illegal war, we might have sorted it all out by now.
Instead we had to go romping about, stirring up hatred in the Arab world, exactly as Bin Ladin hoped we would.
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As Mojo said, that just wouldn't work. AQ and similar terrorist organizations aren't organized like that. There aren't central bases (for the most part) and there is very little (if any) communication between cells. They do that for a reason, therefore no matter what your captors do to you, you can't reveal anything about the organization (and often little about your cell as well). These people don't spend all their time in masks with bombs strapped to themselves, many appear to be normal people. They go to work, have a family, etc. I'm sure in many cases, wives and children don't know Dad is a terrorist.
I think diplomacy is the long term 'solution' to terrorism. But diplomacy won't work on it's own. That's why we need a group that finds them, evaluates their threat level, and either eliminates them or takes them in for questioning.