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> the point of a terrorist attack is to trigger an over reaction I don't agree with that at all, the point of a terrorist attack is to continue a war of attrit

> the point of a terrorist attack is to trigger an over reaction I don't agree with that at all, the point of a terrorist attack is to continue a war of attrition. An overreaction is actually the worst thing that can happen to terrorists: It nullifies their attempt to win via small incremental attritional steps. The reason why the US didn't win the war against terror is because it didn't attack the core ideology that causes the terror. For example in their fight against Nazi ideology in post war Germany the US "overreacted" hard and made sure that Germany was forced to make the nazi ideology wholly illegal and every depiction of a nazi symbol in public illegal.

Georgelemental 3y ago
> US "overreacted" hard and made sure that Germany was forced to make the nazi ideology wholly illegal and every depiction of a nazi symbol in public illegal. The US also poured a massive fortune into rebuilding the West German economy and society, to ensure it wouldn't fall to communism. Violence and repression alone would not have worked.
- Nathanba 3y ago
  The US and many other countries also pour massive amounts of money into Palestine: https://www.usaid.gov/west-bank-and-gaza/our-work https://www.usaid.gov/west-bank-and-gaza/our-work