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Originally Posted by Mo_Gearhead
There will be lulls ...and there will be claims made of successes, but the "war on terror" will N E V E R truly end. ... Welcome to your/mine/our future.
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+1. The US is in a new era, where terror on our own soil is a realistic proposition. That's unlikely to change for a long, long time.
That said, it's always good to kill bad guys. Granted, it's not terribly challenging to find a replacement, but there is a finite number of replacements, and none of them are quite as good as the guy who was doing the job (else the smarter, stronger, meaner guy would be doing the job, instead of the guy who we killed). While it isn't as big of a deal as some politicians might make it out to be, it's still a serious hassle for the bad guys, and a real bummer for one in particular (the guy who got nailed).
If we could do this more often, we'd eventually burn through the collection of guys who are excited about stepping up to take the reins of power. I seem to recall a serious leadership void in West Bank terrorism a few years back after a particularly serious sequence of rocket assassinations carried out by Israel. The international community cried foul play because rockets have collateral damage, but the bad guys floundered for quite a while because nobody wanted to step up and be the next rocket target.