Hezbollah night-vision gear manufactured in Britain

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Originally Posted by 9th Engineer

Our spy web was neatly dismanted during the Clinton administration and we need to double it from what it was before that.

Yeah. All those spies in Moscow would have helped us a lot in catching OBL. [/sarcasm]

But you are right. We need a mutipronged approach toward defeating terrorism. Swinging a big stick around isn't going to do it. You are just turning more people to terrorism.

We need an approach like 9th engineer suggests, but not just the cloak and dagger shit. We need that, but we also need simple diplomacy. Cooperation with moderate governments. We also need to listen to the tree huggers, and reduce our dependence on arab oil so we can reduce our military presence in the Arab world. They don't like our bases in the shadow of Mecca, and a lot of Americans simply don't understand that, and are unwilling to make personal sacrifices like giving up SUVs. If we do come across a situation where war is the only option, we need to listen to our generals so we win that war.

Simply put, we are losing the war on terror, and we need to do things differently.