Rolling Along

Terrorism can perhaps be defined as the use of an unwarrented degree of force, or the use of force against civilians or those whose guilt has not been proven. How can you defeat that? The current administration seems to think that you cannot defeat terrorism without using their tactics, not just against known terrorists but also those that are suspected of being connected to terrorists. While we may be far stronger militarily, terrorists are constrained by neither public opinion nor for that matter a system of laws. They will always be willing to go farther than we can. Recently Pakistani Talibal killed 28 members of a government sponsered peace committee to send the message that “whoever sides with the government will meet the same fate.” I have to question whether or not it is even possible to win a war against an enemy like that without the use of questionable tactics, and if so what the casualty rate would be.