How Should We Respond To Acts Of Terrorism?

I mean sure, but in order to understand how we could make ISIS weak we must first understand why other hateful groups are weak, and how they have continued to stay that way for decades. If you cut out the legs of the recruiters, than it doesn't really end up mattering if the cells can operate autonomously; they'll never gain enough influence or power to really do anything. Sure, you'll never be able to cut out those legs completely, for much the same reason you'll never cut out the legs of Christian terrorist groups completely. There is an element, either religious or political, that just draws or speaks to certain people. I'm willing to bet, however, that the general population in the ME is much like our own in America. People caring more about their more immediate concerns than anything having to deal with a 'holy war with the west'.

The alternative is to burn every cell you can find, but that plan, even if you could eventually guarantee success, would take decades, if not centuries. It would be like trying to kill all the weeds in the world at once. Kill one and two more will sprout. Kind of reminds of the strategy for the war on drugs, really.



Yes it was simply a comparison of a once strong force that was crushed into inadequacy. Although I would also argue that while the military might of the Allied Powers may have been responsible for destroying the Third Reich, if we had repeated history and billed Germany into oblivion again, we might have ended up with another extremist Germany all the same.

ISIS is made up of more than just suicide bombers. If they weren't we could just wait for them all to blow themselves up. In fact I'd find it incredibly difficult to believe that terrorist cells operating all over the world were made up entirely of suicide bombers. Pretty massive waste of resources to set up an infiltration cell only to blow up every single member in it. Every time you wanted to do another attack, you'd need another cell.

Of course they are not all suicide bombers, but many are of the mindset that they are willing to die for their cause and hence don't mind getting violent. If they didn't then we don't have a problem. I don't think we can necessarily say the same about Neo-Nazis.

That, and they don't have a religion that, in literal terms, tells them to.

I'm not really convinced that Neo-Nazis wouldn't be willing to die for their cause either, if given half a chance. Let alone all the political terrorist groups in the world.