[CS-FSLUG] PD: REVIEW & OUTLOOK

[Josiah Ritchie]

On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 21:58, listmail at rotundus.com wrote:
> Quoting Josiah Ritchie <jritchie at bible.edu>:
> 
> > It's entirely possible that I don't understand what you're saying above,
> > but it seems pretty obvious to me where the brains of these operations
> > sits and it isn't within our borders. Since the US has gone on the
> > offensive, they haven't been doing nearly so much sitting still and that
> > means less time to plan our demise at the very least. I'm rather fond of
> 
> The problem is that terrorist organizations tend to be decentralized, and
> therefore extremely difficult to eliminate.  Chances are that by bombing a
> place, you'll tend to upset a sizable component of the population, and
> therefore lead to more people becoming terrorists.

Well, now that we started bombing them they've decentralized. 
Consequently, we haven't been bombing them much lately, at least that
I've heard of, and we've moved to more directed attacks and intelligence
gathering. Now they've been bombing us... and their own people while
they are at it.

JSR/