How does one combat an enemy for whom death is not considered a bad thing?

Question

Islamic terrorists consider martyrdom to be a good thing. This makes combatting them a difficult matter.

Although the Soviets had exceedingly few good ideas in their time, they weren't ALWAYS wrong. When Hezbollah was kidnapping Western diplomats and businessmen in Lebanon during the early '80's, the Western governments were wringing their hands and gnashing their teeth, trying to figure out what to do. Soon, Hezbollah kidnapped a Soviet diplomat. Rather than quivering with indecision, the KGB was called upon to remedy the situation. They kidnapped wives and children of Hezbollah leadership, chopped them up into VERY small pieces, and sent the pieces back to Hezbollah, presumably with a note reading something to the effect of, "We trust you won't be kidnapping any more Soviet nationals.".

Guess what? They didn't.

We could learn a thing or two from their Machiavellianism, if little else.

Jack: Who advocated nukes? I'm simply in favor of treating terrorists like the vermin they are. Nobody needs to glow, we simply need to show them that attacking the US or US national interests is a DECIDEDLY bad idea.

Morey: I have no interest in doing so myself, but we both know the government has people on their payroll who live for that sort of thing. War is not a PTA bake sale, my friend.

Answer 1

Yeah that is an idea I could support.
You just have to be far more ruthless and vindictive then they are. I would have no problem killing their families off and airing it on freaking tv and online like they do with us.

Answer 2

Interesting. I'm not sure, buy you might be one of the first people to address that issue here.

While we may have more sophisticated weapons and more of them, it's difficult to combat an enemy who doesn't mind dying for his cause.

You would think that it would just make it a war of attrition (look it up if ya don't know, people), but a suicide bomber can take out a number of people around him/her.

Someone who's convinced that God (Allah, whomever) is blessing his campaign or death, is a formidable enemy.

Answer 3

Well if we keep letting the politically correct run this war with ACLU atternys up the butts of our military everytime they confront the enemy we will not win. And if we as a nation can't see that we need to stop this crap and let our military crush them take away their heart to fight then we deserve to loose. we actually have a group of Americans who think Bush and co. are worse then the terrorists, so things are so screwed up upside down we don't even know who the enemy really is. It's some scarey times we live in.

Answer 4

I accept as true with you in this concern. Pat Tillman became no more effective a hero than ony of the different protection stress contributors who've served our usa. the actual shown reality that he provide up playing football (Giving up tens of millions of bucks) does no longer justify his hero status. the actual shown reality that he died as hence of pleasant hearth does no longer justify it both. i'll provide Pat Tillman his props in that he felt solid adequate about serving his usa that he Did provide up football and Did connect the protection stress and Did serve in a Ranger Unit and that he Did bypass to wrestle. It sucks that he died from pleasant hearth, because it has for any soldier to dies from pleasant hearth, although the reality of that is that wrestle Operations are risky and in many cases pleasant hearth takes position.

Answer 5

We beat the Japanese Kamikazes.

We would lay out a wall of fire that would destroy their planes before they could reach the ship.

Our troops are so brave they are not afraid of dying, and will valiantly often use their bodies to protect others from blasts.

The difference, is that we don't commit murder by deliberately blowing up innocent people.

If the Russians' methods are so great, why couldn't they help the children when the terrorists killed them? Why did they gas the theatre and kill so many innocents inadvertantly? Why didn't their leader valiently offer to trade himself for the lives of the innocent children?

Answer 6

I just looked at your answers. You asked one of the other answerers who advocated nukes. I think he was probably talking about the second answerer. He advocated nukes. I wholeheartedly agree with what you're saying here.

Answer 7

Intelligent people don't advocate nukes. The Soviets did that in a less politically correct time. It worked for them. I think that would backfire if tried today. It would go a long way to solving the problem though.

Answer 8

You do know that if 9/11 type of attack did happen to the Russians. That Afganistan would have been glowing blue and the message would have been loud and clear.

Libya cough up its weapons program without a shot being fired because he knew what happen when the last Republican president got wind that he was connect to a bombing.


We can't play nice with these animals.

Answer 9

Good statement.

The whole world takes our kindness for weakness and we should be more ruthless. The enemy can and is being beaten. Iman Al-Zawhiri (al qqaeda's number two man) said himself "over 4,000 foreign fighters have been killed in iraq."

We are winning, the media lies, everyone learn to think for themselves.

Answer 10

what crime did the children and women comet.?
if their husbands and fathers want to fight then kill them not the kids..?
the Muslims don't Kill women and Children.(not real true Muslim People anyway.)..

and about the terrorist.. OK hunt them down but why kill thousands of Innocent people along the way and concur countries with mass destruction weapons.. these countries are poor..(Afganestan..Somaliay..ect ) we should help them not kill them.

I'm just saying stop the bloodshed..