Originally Posted by
etudiant
The evidence to date suggests that the military are entirely incapable of suppressing 'radical Islam'. Indeed, military interventions have simple metastasized the problem.
The failure has been palpable, whether in Afghanistan, Libya, Mali or even Nigeria. If there has been a successful intervention, it is well hidden. Even the Israeli experience suggests the problem is intractable militarily.
There may be a solution, but just the military sure is not it.
Nobody said it was exclusively a military issue, because it's not. It's societal and political as well - people are not easy to radicalise unless their environment allows them to be; extreme poverty keeps the recruitment pool filled.
Unfortunately, we must continue to use the military and law enforcement to disrupt the leadership of these organisations, and a well equipped Carrier Air Wing, or two, is just one of the tools for that job. Nobody in their right mind wants a repeat of 9/11.