Progress against terror

[The Stranger]

progress is as i expected.....No real progress...terrorism is as guerilla warfare impossible to win for those who are not one of the guerilla/terrorism fighters....terrorism is winning cuz as the name says they want to frighten people...and almost everyone in the western world is hiding in they're basements.

[Franconicus]

We actually won the fight against the RAF.

[Templar Knight]

are the Red Army Faction still around?

[Franconicus]

No!
They even think to pardon the first.

[Ser Clegane]

We actually won the fight against the RAF.

But they never were more than just a couple of people - and I almost have the feeling that the defeat was rather a mixture of "us" catching some of them and "them" kind of losing interest in their fight.

[Franconicus]

But they never were more than just a couple of people - and I almost have the feeling that the defeat was rather a mixture of "us" catching some of them and "them" kind of losing interest in their fight.

I agree. But maybe that is the silver bullet. Make them loose interest in fighting us.
By the way, I think the end of the USSR helped a lot.
I just mentioned it to show that there is at least one example that one can overcome terror.

[Viking]

Yes, there is - I added two more options (as suggested by Red Harvest and Gawain).

What about me?

I am not sure if this option is limited to moderators - to you have an "Edit Poll" option (at the upper, righr corner of the poll - rather small)?

That`s for moderators only, can you have a talk with Tosa about that?

[Ser Clegane]

What about me?

Oops ... I actually meant you ... don't know why I wrote Red Harvest - he did not even post in this thread.
I guess I should drink less coffee

I agree. But maybe that is the silver bullet. Make them loose interest in fighting us.

Definitely the best way - less bloody for sure. In the case AQ that would probably mean making it more difficult for them to find willing new terrorists.

Not sure how this could be achieved - but I do not think that the total destruction of the AQ network would be an easy task either.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Well if AQ were to read this poll Im sure it would warm the cockles of their hearts to see how miserably you all think we are doing. No wonder were losing(not my position) with beliefs like this.

This war wont be decided by military action any more than NAM was but by winning over the hearts and minds of the otherside. According to this poll the enemy is indeed winning this battle.

[Navaros]

i say there is no progress because every time the USA kills some Muslims, then there are other Muslims to take their place. there are a whole heckuva lot of Muslims in the world who believe in the Koran with all their hearts

so unless the USA is gonna become determined to kill all of them, i do not think they will ever run out of Muslims to fight

hence "progress" can not really be made. you destroy some insurgent camps, big deal. other ones will sprout up elsewhere to replace them.

[The Stranger]

i think so, cuz i dont have that button