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[Kaan]

What combats terrorism? Can someone tell me? please?

No one ever got attacked for minding their own business.

Can you guys disagree without the name calling?

We try really, really hard but Deersty makes us do crazy things with his silly words.

other than existing ... why were we attacked on 9/11?

Special Forces are still in Afganistan. Human intelegance is going to be limited in that area since the other side uses the threat of death to you and your family.

"Undermine support for their cause in the communities they live in. The common people don't want to be blown up either so you make sure the common people are on your side by attacking terrorists/insurgents but keeping collateral damage low. Help their communities and they're more likely to help you. Use locals to help you take out terrorists."

that is basically impossible to due in that part of the world... especially by the US. The common people wanted to be free, but they want to take no risk... just incase the freedom doesnt last long. Its historical... the same shit happened in that area for hundreds of years.

The issue with Israel started in WW1. When the allies broke up the young turkish republic and created the hostile region. welcome to shit we shouldnt have done decades ago. we are kind of stuck with it now. and we cant really go back on it or we lose ALL footholds in the region.

"4. Use unconventional forces to capture and kill terrorists where it will hurt them most. Instead of pulling Special Forces off Afghanistan to fight in Iraq they should have been allowed to stay and cut off the head of the snake."

Unfortunately, even our special forces have their hands tied due to "morality." We wanted to be straight forward and upright and took a stance of not assasinating people. we still dont do that today... or Sadam would have had his hole filled with concrete or something.

"6. Use our human intelligence to infiltrate and disrupt terrorist cells. That is what the CIA is for. Human intelligence also means we need more linguists on the ground so that deployed units can gather and act on intel better. "

you can thank the Clintons for destroying the funding our intelligence community needed to keep this up. its not cheap and not easy. there are suggestions that if they didnt cut the budgets in the places they did, we could have known exact dates, times, and flight numbers for 9-11.

"7. Clean up the criminal intelligence failures in our stateside organizations. There were whistleblowers about several red flags we had before 9/11 in the FBI that might have averted the attack had the agency done their job. "

the biggest issue was they didnt know specifics. thats not going to magically be created by communication between offices... it happens by putting more agents in the field and not having to pull agents from their current duties because working covertly costs too much!