Religion? No. CULT OF MOHAMMAD!
Major errors made in the WoT. My own point of view.
1) The WoT should have begun with a program to covertly execute anyone instigating, financing, or encouraging terrorist acts. These executions would appear due to normal causes, not military action.
2) Captured enemy combatants should have been systematically psychologically conditioned to no longer desire to commit terrorist acts, including a small electronic implant in their mastoid to reinforce their conditioning. It is in no way a violation of human rights to prevent someone from committing terrorist acts.
3) The US military should have had identification units accompanying all operations. Their purpose would be to take detailed biometric, fingerprint, DNA and photographic information of every person we met. They would then issue them ID cards, with only their picture on the front, and encrypted data on the back.
This would have been of immense value to military as well as civilian operations, and the restoration of government services, including census, voting, health care and rations.
It would have also effectively prevented non-local terrorists from blending in with local peoples.
4) Enormous scale, labor intensive public works projects should have been used early on, at fairly low cost, to provide employment to all fighting-age males. By placing these in rural areas, with the men’s pay being sent home to their families, millions of men could have been isolated from terrorist recruitment. This could also have been used to provide public education, literacy training, and government information.
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There’s also an old Marine saying that says it all: “Kill them all, let God sort them out”.
Semper fi