The crux of the money issue is that without the flow of funds, training stops, suicide bombing loses its subsidy, with the families extolling the virtues of child #5 of 6 who then get $25k, plus write-ups on the paper and full honors ceremonies.
Take out the huge payment for these atrocities, and they'll fade. You won't get training or bombers in the numbers they have now. It sounds cold, but religious justification isn't enough, it requires cash to perpetuate this insanity, imo.
To the extent the US has any influence in these petrodollars and foreign "aid" to terrorist-supporters, is the extent to which that support should stop. I'll guess it's 2/3 of the dollars swimming around over there. Stop buying M.E. oil and stop the military and financial support, and the air goes out of the local warlords, who hand out millions in cash. The Saudis alone would be quickly bankrupt w. even a slight reduction in US petrodollars, due to their high debt and corrupt mispending of decades. That alone would remove billions from terrorists selling protection to Saudis. |
