Understanding terrorism

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Originally Posted by russotto

... then the only solution to the problem is removing their ability to commit these acts in the first place.

Cannot be done. History demonstrates you cannot stop the problem by killing more people, embargoing their supplies, restricting their actions, or forcing a new government upon them. All those solutions only make more enemies. Problem must be identified and its root cause must be eliminated. As demonstrated earlier, even the assumptions in Lookout123's original post are intentionally distorted to only promote or disguise a failed American leadership problem. Intentionally distorted as to even blame everything on some mythical Al Qaeda.

Furthermore, after the invasion, there is a one year grace period. The invading nation only has something like one year to change things for the better. This mental midget president (using the same intellectual brainstorming from Adm Bremmer, et al) had no plans for the peace until seven months after "Mission Accomplished" was declared. Too little too late. We waited too long to solve anything. Our only solution lies in getting others to take over. Others who don't have the stigma of being ugly Americans.

Root cause, from the perspective of Americans, is that we decided to fix the region. Therefore we tried to fix a problem that was not a problem (Saddam), invented threats that did not exist (WMDs), empowered the real threat (Muslim Brotherhood), and made Americans a target (trying to force American ideals such as democracy down their throat).

Before 1 Aug 1990, America was not a target of Islamic fundamentals. What changed? It starts with the policy of intervention rather than the 'well proven by generations' policy of prevention or containment. This 'self serving' George Jr policy change caused America to become a target. Policy change is the mistake we made then and is the solution today - as our regional allies repeatedly remind us. Exercising that solution is difficult. Not difficult to execute. But difficult to get a leader with enough balls to do it.

In Vietnam, we could have left at any time. Instead we only doubled the American death count to protect a president's ego. When we finally did leave, then Vietnam was solved for the better. Leaving was the only solution for Vietnam. But self serving leaders such as Nixon did not have the balls to change an obviosly flawed policy - domino theory. Obviously the current president also does not have the balls nor intelligence. Everything for him is always so haaaarrrrdd.