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Organised like what? With time, patience and enough good people, we could have flooded the 'training camps' in Afghanistan with our own people and built up a reliable intelligence network, one that would tell us what we have no hope of finding out now - for the reasons you describe.
Do you remember the most recent collapse of the Northern Irish assembly - and why that happened? It turned out that the IRA's second in command was a British agent. No wonder the IRA isn't a sizable threat any more. The British knew everything there was to know about them.
That's the kind of tactic we should have used against 'The Terrorists'. We get in, we wait (foiling attacks as they are planned) and, once we know everything we need to - we perform the coup de grace and finish them off once and for all.
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