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You still haven't presented an argument showing the reasons why you think we can't win the war on terror Neither have you or GW, but I like your optimism. Some of the evil folk we call terrorists think we are terrorists if not for our direct actions, than for our support of people who do or would terrorize them. M
We don't even have a choice about whether to fight them. We only have a choice about whether or not to be aggressive about doing it. Aggressive means, in large part, fighting them over there rather than trying to keep them from coming here. We'd fail at keeping them from coming here, and we'd be cleaning up a lot more body parts.
Al Qaeda is not growing stronger and stronger. The indications are that it's becoming less and less popular in the Muslim world as Muslims realize most of Al Qaeda's victims are innocent fellow Muslims. Even Al Jazeera has been forced to admit as much, although grudgingly. If a democratic form of government succeeds in getting established in Iraq, we will have an enormous propaganda coup, and that willl hobble Al Qaeda's ability to get good quality recruits.
I'm positive none of this will be easy and it will take decades, not years for this project against Islamic terrorism to be over, but terrorist movements have been defeated in the past:
-- the Red Brigades are gone from Germany.
-- a similar group in Italy was raging in the '60s, '70s and into the '80s, and it's dead.
-- there were anarchist terrorists in the early 20th century in the U.S. I'm told that on the New York Stock Exchange building you can still see scars from a bomb that blew up around Wall Street.
-- we had plenty of home-grown terrorists in the U.S. in the '60s and '70s, but they're gone.
Islamic terrorists are a bigger problem than any of those, but we've weakened them and we can defeat them.
My guess is that an American city will be destroyed, at least the core of it will be destroyed, by a weapon of mass destruction before we defeat them. If we don't defeat them, then more will get destroyed. We can't even surrender to these people without massive destruction, so we'll do the only thing we can do -- fight. The only question is whether we'll fight intelligently and bring this to a conclusion in a relatively few decades, or whether we'll mess up so badly that it will take several decades more. Depressed yet?
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