Re: Global War on Terror Version 6 - Perpetual Motion Machine
ISIS in particular. Let their own success destroy them -- let them alienate everyone in the region so they implode in on themselves. You know what is lethal to any Utopian movement, be it economic or religious? Gaining power. Managing water and sewage, electricity, roads. Keeping constituents happy.
No insurgency can survive without local support. Bombing them just creates martyrs (and the "collateral damage" creates new recruits, as we accidentally murder the uncles and mothers of the very kids we're trying to save -- c.f. Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia).
Containment isn't macho and it doesn't appeal to the gorillas, but it wins.
Originally posted by FlagDUDE08
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No insurgency can survive without local support. Bombing them just creates martyrs (and the "collateral damage" creates new recruits, as we accidentally murder the uncles and mothers of the very kids we're trying to save -- c.f. Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia).
Containment isn't macho and it doesn't appeal to the gorillas, but it wins.
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