mmarsh
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Therise21 and Senojekips
We use drones in Afghanistan, but we are not allowed to launch strikes within Pakistan without authorization from the Pakistani government. The Pakistanis are very tight in the buttocks about their sovereignty, they don't allow us to do anything on our own, thats exactly the problem. Also remember that the Pakistani government and military is filled with Al-qaeda sympathizers, so even when Pakistan gives an OK the terrorists are usually warned ahead of time. The terrorists know this thats why they set up their base there.
Putting bounties has already been tried and it has failed most spectacularly. Look at Osama, his bounty has gone from $10 Million to $25 Million after 9/11 to almost $50 Million today. Nobody has claimed it. Same goes Al-Zawariri, and all the senior management. The top 20 people of Al-qaeda all have bounties of $10 million or more, to my knowledge not a single bounty has been paid.
I don't mean to pick on you guys, but this is exactly the flawed reasoning of Bush the past 5 years ago. The West has been so corrupted by money they automatically assume that everybody else has too. These are very simple people, A family of 4 lives in Wiristan on $20 a Month, they don't give a damn about money, if they did Al Qaeda would have been dead a LONG time ago.
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13th Redneck
No, fear tactics only work against the uneducated such as the Afghans. Remember fear is a uncertainty of the unknown, thats much more prevalent amongst people the most susceptible to the unknown. The educated either find ways to resist such tactics or they flee. Take Iraq, all the educated people (Sunnis and Shiites) fled after the Civil War started. And the fall of Roman Empire happened when the empire was a pale corrupt shadow of its former self. The barbarians only gave it the coup de grace. Same can be said of the Han Dynasty when the Mongols attacked, it was a very large empire made of paper.
We use drones in Afghanistan, but we are not allowed to launch strikes within Pakistan without authorization from the Pakistani government. The Pakistanis are very tight in the buttocks about their sovereignty, they don't allow us to do anything on our own, thats exactly the problem. Also remember that the Pakistani government and military is filled with Al-qaeda sympathizers, so even when Pakistan gives an OK the terrorists are usually warned ahead of time. The terrorists know this thats why they set up their base there.
Putting bounties has already been tried and it has failed most spectacularly. Look at Osama, his bounty has gone from $10 Million to $25 Million after 9/11 to almost $50 Million today. Nobody has claimed it. Same goes Al-Zawariri, and all the senior management. The top 20 people of Al-qaeda all have bounties of $10 million or more, to my knowledge not a single bounty has been paid.
I don't mean to pick on you guys, but this is exactly the flawed reasoning of Bush the past 5 years ago. The West has been so corrupted by money they automatically assume that everybody else has too. These are very simple people, A family of 4 lives in Wiristan on $20 a Month, they don't give a damn about money, if they did Al Qaeda would have been dead a LONG time ago.
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13th Redneck
No, fear tactics only work against the uneducated such as the Afghans. Remember fear is a uncertainty of the unknown, thats much more prevalent amongst people the most susceptible to the unknown. The educated either find ways to resist such tactics or they flee. Take Iraq, all the educated people (Sunnis and Shiites) fled after the Civil War started. And the fall of Roman Empire happened when the empire was a pale corrupt shadow of its former self. The barbarians only gave it the coup de grace. Same can be said of the Han Dynasty when the Mongols attacked, it was a very large empire made of paper.
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