Bacardi4206 Bacardi4206:
Definetly do not want to bend to some terrorist organizations demands as they will just feel empowered. Also even if Germany pulled out of Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda isn't going to stop trying to blow them up. Why don't people understand that?
Well put. Like you said once they got any country to pull out it would just empower them and they would use that incident to show how powerful they are when recruiting new terrorists.
The other thing many don't realize is terrorism is not just blowing people up, its creating fear, pissing people off because they can't stop it, creating panic and chaos.
I was at a conference once where one of the heads of London's police was speaking and he commented that the biggest victory for the London Subway bombers was not killing a few people but the panic and chaos what they did caused. It showed the weakness of the western system.
If they can panic, scare, disrupt, taunt without consequence, then it's all a victory for them. People say, "yah tough guys! They are hiding caves" Sure, but when the combined efforts of NATO can't find or put and end to them (thanks Pakistan! ) well then "God must be on their side" they figure. As long as there are still people scared to fly because of what they have done, they are emboldened.