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Originally Posted by kotzabasis
I think The Reaper and one-zero are closer to the mark than your intellectual many faceted approach that in other circumstances when one's life is not immediately and directly threatened would be correct, but not in circumstances when one's existence is instantly at stake. When you face someone who is ready to kill you, you would hardly save yourself by finding, and "suppressing and containing, the primary force (s) that draws Muslims" to their martyrdom. You would only save yourself by killing him. .
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I am not advocating that at all. What I am advocating is, that in addition to removing the immediate threat, you have to also reduce the reasons and the pool of recruits that keep on adding to this target rich environment. I would "hardly" been here had I followed that route and having looked the elephant in the eye on occassion you do not have to tell me anything about dealing with immediate threats to me or anyone for whom I am responsible. Your looking at the here and now, I am looking at the here, now, and beyond. You do not protect a hill merely by sitting on it waiting for the hordes to sweep into your line of fire, you protect it by defending it, defending forward of it, and going forward to seek out the hordes and destroy them, their off spring, and their goats. Then you salt the earth to keep them from springing up again in those areas where you cannot remove source of their strength. This is not limited to Iraq, it is a world wide movement both for Islam and within Islam. Would that it be nice that this entire conflict could be resolved in Iraq but it cannot and will not. This conflict is one that goes beyond military resolve and while you can kill the fanatic you cannot kill the idea that made him a fanatic unless you resolve, or suppress, the divergent views within Islam and the other socio-economic, psychological, and other aspects that give rise and support the movement. In that regard I support exercising a little intelligent initiative by shaping various locations globally to eliminate, mollify, co-opt, or redirect the threat in support of our own national security objectives before they become the problems of tomorrow.