This is what the Intelligence services are supposed to be all about: giving us the heads-up about groups like this - and quiet wet-work to get rid of the Bad Guys.
Incinerating hundreds of thousands of people, and poisoning millions more, won’t make us any safer. Even dropping a big bomb on a town where we believe them to be hiding (somewhere) can have severe blow-back.
We ought to do this the right way: quietly, efficiently, murderously. Our agents should be dropping these dudes with poisons and other tactics that look natural. We shouldn’t even be hearing these terrorist’s names, because they never live lone enough to get famous.
And give the t-shirt vendor who reported the smoke a ticker-tape parade. Make him famous. Bloomberg, give him a cash prize.
Make it pay off in fame and fortune for the everyday citizens who stop these kinds of attacks. Turn every citizen into an intelligence operative, as it were.
We all have to hang together, as Franklin said.
This is what the Intelligence services are supposed to be all about: giving us the heads-up about groups like this - and quiet wet-work to get rid of the Bad Guys.
Yep... I would agree there... :-)
Do the Japanese or the Germans hate us because we firebombed most of their cities to ash? The cook who makes the meal for the enemy soldier is just as guilty as the enemy soldier who pulls the trigger. The same goes for a society that supports those who commit acts of terror or barbarism. The society itself needs to be completely destroyed before something better can be rebuilt to replace the barbarism and insanity.
The people in northwest Pakistan are our enemies.
Let God sort them out.