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Originally Posted by IndigoErth
Sure... and Obama was just as accredited for taking down the Taliban's big gun and others, equally a terrorist killer from the safety of the White House like Trump, but did that make the Taliban dissolve? Of course not. Likewise when Bush put our people out there and killed many. Still didn't stop them. They're terrorists... they're crazy and their own people are expendable cannon fodder, so they don't care what we do. (I mean, these ARE the kind of people who would have someone, even a woman, strap bombs to themselves and go on a suicide mission.) There's no reason they'd care what Trump does or how he'd shake his fist at them.
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Precisely. You only win by killing the idea as well, and I'm not sure that's possible. See the US and Vietnam too.