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Originally Posted by Skybird
There is a structure called Al Quaeda. but it is more important to realize it's mental presence inside heads, it's character of it's deeds being an example for others. Al Quaeda greatest threat potential is that now it is an idea, a motivation, a thinking pattern, a way of gaining superindividual identity: the feeling of being part of something bigger. And that is attractive for quite some people. You could wipe out Al Quaeda organisations and sub-cells militarily, but Al Quaeda still would be there.
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I totally agree with you Skybird. This is bigger than just killing different groups of terrorist radicals. The ideology of hate being bred within needs to be confronted. It's scary to think that there are some who don't understand this. It's even scarier to think they consider themselves to be the West's intellectuals.
I think dealing with this problem is going to have to be multi-faceted. And we're going to have to throw away the politically correct nonsense that prevents us from doing the things which will help us defeat the threats. For example racial profiling at airports. And stopping immigration from countries where there are large contingents of people who despise you and want you dead, or changed to their ways of seeing the world. I'm not sure if you agree Skybird with my last statements.....but I know we see eye to eye with the understanding that Al Qaeda is more than a group of people with a culture and ideology. It is a culture and ideology in itself.