Cephus
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It might not last more than another 50 years, a generation or 2, but it depends more on how we deal with it than how many terrorists we kill. The terrorists have a strategy and every strategy has a solution to circumvent it. Things like how they used religious guilt and fear to con the Saudi's out on the money to fund the Taliban schools in Pakistan are key to stopping extremists before they exist. We need to use our head as well as our fist.
It doesn't matter, the more we kill, the more fanatics are generated. Our only hope was to pull out of the Middle East entirely and leave them to their own devices, but I think that time is past and just leaving won't matter, there are people who have grown up with a strong religious hatred for the west and a fanatical desire to convert the entire planet to Islam, no matter how many people they have to kill doing it. I don't think we have the option to just leave anymore and we don't have the balls to just wipe out all of the fanatics.