PTT
...............because it's not a nation or a small group of people we are fighting against, it's an ideology, a twisting of a religion, a way of thinking which is entirely alien to and wants to end our way of thinking. They won't give up because we leave their countries - they'll come to ours, just as they did on 9 Sept 2001..................
So PTT if what you say is right, and I am sort of in agreement with you, what does victory look like? Will hearts and mind and 'democracy' really work? Ideology is very hard to target even with with 'smart bombs'.
To me it is a scary thought as I don't believe we can never win reacting as we conventionaly have against traditional enemies. We will just keep expending 'resources' until we are 'bled dry'. A new approach will be needed but I don't hear any of our leaders offer anything other than 'more of the same' which inevitably results in 'more of the same', ie a lot of dead people on our side and theirs so more 'pissed off' radicals.
