1. Only the United States has the power, and perhaps now the free hand, to break the back of terrorism.
2. We will not be sending Stingers to Afghanistan, or setting up training camps in Pakistan, etc.
3. We will not primarily be bombing, unless the target is military.
4. Yes, there are a lot of terrible schools indoctrinating Muslim children. Maybe breaking the back of terrorism will cause them to be defunded, who knows?
5. The reason we lost in Vietnam was that we got sucked into a war of attrition. If we had attacked North Vietnam, we would have won. Similarly, we need to attack sponsoring states, base camps, and any other infrastructure we can find, whether by direct military assault or special operations units....... |