Understanding terrorism

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Originally Posted by tw

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.

Worked on Carthage. Troy, too. Also Germany after WWII. The American South. Examples abound.

All those solutions only make more enemies. Problem must be identified and its root cause must be eliminated.

And if the root cause is simply that they like killing Westerners? That they find our very infidel existence intolerable?

Others who don't have the stigma of being ugly Americans.

Or ugly Brits or ugly Spaniards or...

Before 1 Aug 1990, America was not a target of Islamic fundamentals. What changed?

Nothing, that's a false premise; Islamic fundamentalists used to take (and kill) hostages rather than blow people up.