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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
Was 9-11 an understandable response in your mind?
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I can understand it but that doesn't mean it was the right response.
A couple of the lessons I take from the last twenty plus years of wars in the Middle East:
1. You eliminate terrorists through police action, special forces operations, and good diplomatic relations with countries that might otherwise be hosts for them (or that are hosts for them, like Pakistan)
2. You create more terrorists through ground wars with a lot of collateral damage - it's pretty clear that the Iraq war played a big role in the emergence of Daesh.
3. Active civ ops can play a huge role in minimizing support for terrorists.
It would be nice to see these lessons applied today.
