animefreak_usa wrote...
Even if you nuked the middle east, North Africa, Indian subcontinent, South east asia and the flip southern island you only destroyed the nations they mostly live in. Blam you made the other nations civilized Muslims turn into jihadist. Can't kill a idea.
Doesn't help most of the people living in those places think the extremists that make up most terrorists groups are just as insane as we think they are. For every wackjob with a bomb you got multitudes of innocent people just going about their lives.
It's one of the reasons dealing with these things is so hard. How do you tell the enemies from civilians when everyone looks and acts the same until somebody whips out an AK or an RPG? It isn't like a normal war with supply lines or strategic areas we could go after. A lot of these groups don't even keep in contact with each other; its just a bunch of fanatic cells with similar ideas and a common enemy.
Still doesn't change the fact they're like children poking a tiger with a stick though.