Actually, the more we kill the more we make.
Again, I disagree. From the reading I'm doing, there are clearly a finite amount of fundamentalists who will make the effort to strike us a la 9/11.
There were a finite amount, as far as AQ was concerned. All AQ ever was, was a rich guy, with a limited following from the elites of the ME, (except Iraq). The idea was to get America involved in attacking a muslim nation, so that the "movement" could move beyond an operation directed and funded by one guy to a spontaneous, self organizing, true terrorist movement. OBL had hoped that provoking a US war in Afghanistan would do to the US what the war did to the USSR.
Unfortunately for him, he miscalculated. For the rulers of the ME, sending their crazies out of the country to go fight Soviets was one thing. But to fight America after 9/11? No thanks. Middle Easterners understand revenge, The US had a right. What did turn AQ into a global brand name, catchall for terrorists was Iraq. It was an Arab state unjustly invaded.
Osama picked the wrong battle ground, so we very kindly corrected his mistake.
I can show the stats for the explosive growth of AQ attacks AFTER 2003 and NOT after 2001 if you want.
