Many argue that fighting terrorists only helps fill the terrorist ranks with eager recruits. To a certain degree this is true. But lest we forget, fighting terrorists also trains our military and spy services how to beat the terrorists.
Israel's campaigns against Palestinian groups and our campaigns against AQI and AQ central have generated some insight.
The terrorists have a nearly inexhaustible supply of gunmen and suicide bombers from the hundreds of pro-terror religious schools in Pakistan. Plenty of cash is available from contributions and criminal activities (particularly working for the heroin gangs in Afghanistan). But leadership cannot be bought, nor can you hire technical people to work the high risk (and high death rate) border areas. You have to develop your own leaders and technical people. And if the enemy kills off those leaders and techies too rapidly, the terror operations will collapse.
I'm not afraid of the gunman. But I am afraid of the people who can organize the gunmen and lead them in missions. We don't need to worry about the hundreds of half-retarded thugs who make it to the training camps. We need to worry about killing the future Mohammed Atta's before they can organize effective attacks against us.
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