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Originally Posted by Marshall Bennett
Problem is they're everywhere now.
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It probably is going to get worse. I don't see any good options for stopping terrorism.
The U.S. can't just withdraw from the middle east in an attempt to appease isis because #1 -- the U.S. won't, and #2, isis might still order lone wolf attacks on the U.S. even if the U.S. did withdraw.
Option #3 -- war on a very large scale that will last until any potential terrorist loses the will to commit an act of terrorism.
The U.S. bombed the hell out of Vietnam and couldn't break their will.
Islamic terrorists are all over the globe. It isn't clear if a traditional army in a traditional war can defeat such a dispersed enemy.
Option #4 -- Nuclear bombs. Japan is a relatively small country and the enemy was almost completely on the island, so nukes worked there. I don't know much about the use of nukes, but I can imagine it would not be a popular choice to use them. I don't even know if it is practical.
What options remain? Genocide? It would almost take some sort of act of genocide to rid the world of enough Muslims that the remaining ones lost their will to fight. I don't see that happening.
It isn't feasible to force Muslims to leave western countries. Some of them are married to non-Muslims. Not all Muslims are terrorists. How would you go about vetting all of them?
Acts of Islamic terrorism will probably be with us for many years to come.
