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You do not defeat a terrorist organisation with force. Full stop. Will I say that again? You do not defeat a terrorist organisation by force.

But you do hit it hard whenever it rears it's ugly head. You keep it from becoming a defacto government and you disrupt it as much as possible.

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If you think you can, name one.

OK, the Jews of the first century

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If you want another example of how a "terrorist" became a respected politician, then look at Israel. In 1939 a militant Jewish group called the Stern Group split from an already blacklisted underground group called the Irgun with the intention of setting up terrorist cells in London and assassinating prominent British politicians. The Irgun blew up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 Britons, Jews and Arabs and injuring many more. The Stern Gang assassinated Lord Moyne, the British military governor of Egypt. The leader of the Irgun who at one stage had a £2000 price on his head from the British Government as a terrorist most wanted? Menachem Begin, later to become Prime Minister of Israel in 1977. The leader of the Stern Gang? Yitzhak Shamir, elected Prime Minister of Israel in 1983.


Those were military targets, not school buses, sidewalk cafes, supermarkets and nightclubs. All of which are the preferred targets of the Jihadists. If Begin and Shamir had followed the current terrorist model the attacks would have been in London against civilians, like the IRA.

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Define a "terrorist" organisation. Hundreds of thousands of Southern Lebanese look to Hizbollah as saviours; funding schools, hospitals, they effectively run southern Lebanon as a country within a country.


And they are now sacrificing those same people by hiding among them as they fire their rockets. Using them as human shields, purposely getting as many of them killed as possible so they can then blame Israel for the deaths.

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The only way to defeat "terrorism" is by talk and education. This is dismissed as namby-pambyism and defeatism and appeasement. It is not. If it takes guns to get people to the table to talk.. well so be it.. that is the correct use of force, to my mind.

According to the terrorists themselves there can be no real negotiation. Negotiations and cease fires exist only to give them breathing room to recruit and resupply.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.