Reply #27: That's the trouble with their mindset. [View All]

[Joe Chi Minh]

It shouldn't be a "war on terrorists" (terrorism, itself, of course, is a concept), because, when the indigenous people are on the side of the insurgents, asymmetric warfare cannot be won by hostile regular forces, even employing irregulars.

An ongoing, preventive civil campaign must of course be waged at home by the appropriate national-security agencies, and the causes of the insurgents disaffection - so extreme as to often be suicidal, just so long as some of the enemy can be killed - identified, acknowledged and settled. People don't behave like that without a genuine and very serious grievance.