The best way to prevent an offensive force from killing you is to kill them
first.

So let's say there is a country with 25-million people in it. Out of this
25-million, 4%, (or 1-million) hate the US so vehemently that they will become
suicide bombers, or join anti-American militia. These people hide among the
general population. (30-40% of the general population hate the US enough that
they won't get "involved" and rat out the bad guys). The bad guys don't wear
uniforms, march in formation, or ride around in clearly identifiable military
vehicles. We really don't know who the bad guys are until they are setting off
a roadside bomb or firing an AK47 ot our guys.

Looks like we ultimately have two choices, really.

1) Carpet bomb the whole place into a nuclear wasteland, and consider the 24
million either "collateral damage" or racially guilty by virtue of a common
religion.

or:

1. Identify the enemy. Do this by doubling, tripling, or quintupling the
intelligence budget. Use both electronic surveillance *and* clandestine
operatives. Infiltrate the
terrorist cells and identify the criminal terrorist *******s during the
planning process, (not after the fact).

2. Surgically remove the terrorist leaders.
We can do this in ways that would leave even their supporters unsure
whether
the
head ******* was taken out by the US or died of natural causes.


3. Avoid repeating the mistakes of Israel, Russia, and other countries
that
have decades of experience fighting the same problem.

4. Try to insure that we are not creating hatred for the US faster than we
are
killing off the folks who already hate us.


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If everybody hates us then why do the oppressed people of the world want to
come here to better their lives?

Sorry, but your question has nothing to do with this discussion. It tries to
refute a postion that "everybody" hates us, and I don't see any claims to that
effect.

We need to eliminate the people who hate us so badly that they will attack us.
That's far from "everybody". In fact, because it isn't even close to a majority
in most of the
Islamic countries in the world it is even more questionable to make war against
an entire country rather than the criminal elements within the country.

We also need to examine our actions to make sure that we do not, unnecessarily
or unjustly, give even more people a valid reason to hate us.