Mecca, and Medina. For starters. Apply as needed to effected areas!
Seems like a good article. Unfortunately I don’t want to subscribe to read the rest of it, but good as far as it goes.
Counterterroism bump for later...
“’Understanding’ doesn’t work. Killing does”.
Stating the obvious or trying to break the dangerous Rodney King fixation of leftists (er, now “progressives”)?
There is an alternative to killing, and initially it sounds even worse than killing, but it really isn’t. Yet we are uniquely capable of doing this in an effective way.
We “change their minds”. Not a lot, but just a little, and subtly. But the end result is that they will never be terrorists again.
Start by grading Islamists. The vast majority are hot air, incapable of actually carrying out acts of terrorism. And then their are those who can actually do something, but only in their own area or country.
Only a small minority have the brass to leave their country to travel to another country, to attack innocent women and children.
The techniques of drug induced hypnosis are well known. And likely we can now do it so well that the effects are permanent. The CIA could set up a mass production warehouse to, in effect, “brainwash” hundreds or thousands of fighters.
But “brainwash” is not a good word to describe it, as they would not seriously rewrite their minds, only that small part that gives them the momentum to leave their home country to attack people in another country.
All the rest of their mind remains untouched, but they now just want to go home and stay there. They would still be able to defend themselves if attacked, but they would no longer have any impulse to leave their country and engage in acts of terrorism.
It would not diminish them as a person, nor does it impact their “human rights”, as their is no human right to commit acts of terror.
But everyone of them sent home would generally be a “wet blanket”, because no matter how enthusiastic the recruiter, they would just not have the will to be a real terrorist.