Anonymous <nobody@paranoici.org> writes:
But asymm warfare has to accomplish its goal. It's not being very successful.
It's been extraordinarily successful. The US is driving itself (and a lot of the rest of the world) nuts with terrorists-under-the-beds paranoia. I recently saw a replay of some speech that Bush made shortly after 9/11 where he said something about "the terrorists wanted to demoralise? frighten? us. This has failed", and my reaction was "Who are you kidding?". The terrorists have achieved their goals, and then some. The correct response would have been what the UK did in WWII, which was "business as usual" to let the opposition know that they couldn't be intimidated. In contrast, all Bush is doing is telling them which buttons to push. Peter.