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Originally posted by dplax:
Magik: the article mostly referred to the comments made by different ranking military officials after Saddam got captured. They said the insurgency would wind down. But in reality it has only increased. My point with posting this article was that although the US claimed capturing Saddam was a great victory it did not change anything in Iraq. Its as if you cut off one head and fifteen grow in its place. Saddam's capture was made to look much bigger than it was.
In the same way capturing Bin Laden would not stop Al Qaeda. Someone else would just replace him. As I see it it is the whole mentality of the war on terror which is wrong. It is not the leaders who need to be captured, it is the whole organizations which need to be taken care of, and if this is impossible then the tactics need to be changed.
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How would you like to see the tactics changed? With terrorist it's their way or Death. You either fight them or give into them, there is no talking with them, they had their own country, Afhganistan, in which to run things and live their life as they saw fit, but were they willing to live and let live? NO! They set out to change others way of life, through the killing of innocent people just going to work and trying to make a living, provide for their families, and raise their children. There are fates worse then death, for ME, living under their thumb or rule would be one, as would letting them get away with their actions of attacking us. I'm the nicest, kindest, most well mannered SOB Hard case you'll ever meet,(MagiK may tie me though
)I'll give someone the shirt off my back, but if they try and take it only one of us will survive to wear the shirt.