You don’t make peace with your friends. You make peace with your enemies.
Unless you actually plan on commiting a full scale and thorough genocide, eliminating terrorists is simply not a viable strategy for defeating terrorism. If you don’t go all the way to genocide, then a sizable portion of the non-terrorists you didn’t kill will become terrorist
You act as if people in Hamas and Hezbollah have no agency in the matter.
Becoming a terrorist isn’t some predetermined act of destiny, it’s a deliberate life choice–the cost of which is having your dick blown off by an exploding pager.
You don’t make peace with your friends. You make peace with your enemies.
Unless you actually plan on commiting a full scale and thorough genocide, eliminating terrorists is simply not a viable strategy for defeating terrorism. If you don’t go all the way to genocide, then a sizable portion of the non-terrorists you didn’t kill will become terrorist
A good example of this is the Taliban.
You act as if people in Hamas and Hezbollah have no agency in the matter.
Becoming a terrorist isn’t some predetermined act of destiny, it’s a deliberate life choice–the cost of which is having your dick blown off by an exploding pager.