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True. The best we can do is minimize the opportunity these twisted individuals have to damage us and our way of life. That means better security at home and hitting them abroad where we can to keep them off balance and illustrate to the rest of the world that those who harbor these folks will have a price to pay. The Brits have long been great with covert ops.The SAS, SBS and Commando are legendary. However, one need only look to Northern Ireland to see that solutions to big problems are always long term solutions. The U.S. has done well with certain ops, the SEALS, Special Forces, Marines and their intelligence counterparts, unfortunately, with our very open society this has not always been possible and certain decisions made in the last couple decades have negatively affected our intelligence capability. Hopefully, the efforts being made now will to some degree remedy that shortcoming. Of course, there is no magic solution. Over time, one can hope that may of the "average" people in the muslim world will come to realize the benefits of freedom and a free society. To say coming to that point could be tumultuous is probably an understatement. In the real world nothing comes for free... LC [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by 45144 Ed, We've talked about this offline and most of the time we're on the same wavelength but these guys don't care if you hit them hard or if you hit their families hard. Surely the real answer is what we did in Malaysia, you win their hearts and minds and support for the nutters dies - wasn't that the lesson of Vietnam Sorry guys, I'm not American but I sure am proud of the way the British army handles these problems (I suppose the RAF and Navy do some stuff too) You have to remember that rationality is yesterday - if the guy wants to die and take you with him pointing a gun at his head doesn't make him think twice. Lets stick together on this All the best Kev [/quote]
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