threegun,
It's really striking how much you don't understand about terrorism.
You're advocating the exact same policy that's been implemented these last six years, yet remain oblivious to the fact that we are losing this "war" by any objective measure. Do you suppose those two facts are coincidence?
And your interpretation of Bin Laden's economic warfare strategy is about the most factually incorrect thing I've ever seen posted on this forum as "fact"...aside from one comment I read in another sub-fora that stated that Glocks had plastic slides.
You are 100% dead-wrong. I know that you are 100% dead wrong, because (unlike you) I have actually read their strategy.
Moving along...
Our government reacted out of the same fear, anger, and ignorance that you now display, and we all bear witness to the aftermath of this policy. Your suggestion that we lop those heads off the Hydra more vigorously just goes to show that you know nothing about the nature of the Hydra.
It was
anger that drove our government to wage this so-called "GWoT"...as if it were really "global", a "war", or as if such an approach could ever defeat "terror"
It was
fear that led them to believe that terrorists were stronger than the law, so they instituted extrajudicial detention, rendition, and torture overseas and secret police powers and warrantless wiretapping at home.
But the worst was
ignorance that blinded them to the hard-won lessons of past battles with terrorists. They ignored the fact that interning made the IRA stronger. They ignored the fact that torture cost the French Angola. They ignored the fact that domestic spying hindered our efforts against the Weather underground, the Klan, the BLA.
The terrorists? They are
not ignorant of history, nor are they fools. They have watched "the Battle of Algiers". They have read The Mini-Manual and The Green Book. They have learned from past successes and failures.
And they're winning. They're winning big, because people not unlike yourself are advocating disastrous policy.
You need to correct your rectal/cranial inversion and start learning about your enemy. I direct this tirade at you, but it really applies to all who follow your wayward thinking.
If you wish to defeat terrorism, step #1 would be to QUIT DOING EVERY *&^%*&$%ING THING THE TERRORISTS
WANT YOU TO DO!!!!
Stop treating it like a "war" because you merely justify their propaganda as being "holy warriors".
Stop interning them as "enemy combatants". See above.
Stop undermining our own Constitution, which doesn't operationally hinder them, but merely serves to make us look as tyrannical as they say we are.
Stop confusing the Arab on the street with them. It forces the critical neutrals into their arms.
In short...stop doing everything in your power to prove the terrorists right.
They are no more than organized crime in reality, except they seek political clout instead of money.
They're just criminals, and if our policy reflects that and we treat them as such, they can't win.
So, uhh...step #2 would be to start doing things they
don't want us to do.