>>Is that your considered military opinion, based on the best intelligence available and arrived at after a complete analysis of their weaponry and techniques. Amazing, Len. Is it all due to your amazing mental telepathy?
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>As I said, you miss the point. Fighting terrorism is not a military action. Your military may be able to defeat an army & even a country, but it does not have the ability to change what is in the minds of the individuals in those armies & countries.
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>Fighting peoples attitudes is not something that the military can do & unless you change their attitudes, you will never defeat terrorism. Doesn't need telepathy to know that, just plain common sense, which seems to be in short
>supply in your government & mine.

Thank God your version of 'common sense' isn't too common. "Never" is an absolute that only one gifted with omniscience can use. You are not so gifted.
Does your 'common sense' have a non-military workable plan to convert a couple million fanatical Muslem extremeists to a less hostile fame of mind?
1) Buy them off with money or goods, under the guise of 'humanitarian aid', or simply put them on our welfare rolls? (We tried socialist welfare in America. After 30 years and 5 Trillion dollars the Great Society turned out to be the grate society. It seems people will take the money, but blame/hate you for making them dependents of the government.)
2) Maybe we should send copies of Seseme Street and Big Bird to them?
3) Engage in intense intellectual discussions and overwhelm them with the power of your logic? Oh, let me guess: we should be 'sensitive' to their needs. They are simply misunderstood.
4) 1 & 3
5) Consult DAS KAPITAL for futher instructions.
6) Blame the victims at the WTC, and their families, friends and government.
7) Ask Noam Chomsky what to think next.
8) None of the above, realizing that a dead extremist won't hurt anyone.

Contrary to what you 'think', Len, they are not the superhuman, undefeatable fighters you portray them to be. You are letting your fears rule your judgement. How do you distinguish your thought and actions from cowardice?