Wake up, we have been using F16s to try and kill terrorists for a decade and it hasn't worked.
No duh.. just like using them to "contain" Saddam's WMD programs and aggression didn't work either.
He still engaged in ethnic and religious genocide, aggression postures against his neighbors, and secret programs in defiance of UNSC binding resolutions.
It required "boots on the ground" to get at these terrorist networks ZP. And it will continue to be required, along with aggressive intelligence and police work by numerous countries, to quash it.
But most of all, it requires a "new deal" for the middle east. When, as Thomas Friedman cogently points out, Spain's economy is greater than all 22 Arab nations combined, it is imperative that an alternative vision of the future be offered to the Middle East..
Something other than the "cult of death" being proposed by the Islamic militants.
And oil will assist in sustaining a measure of economic security, while we assist them in diversifying their economic and political structure.
There is nothing wrong with importing oil, so long as the proceeds from such purchases are not funneled into corrupt regimes, or towards international terrorist activities. It's called trade. They sell us oil, and they buy our products.
And I'd rather purchase oil from the Iraqis than I would from the Saudis.
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