Originally posted by RTStabler51: I agree with both, as if you take Davo's comments in the simplest form he is right, you do not have to know your enemy in order to kill him. However, if you want to DEFEAT your enemy as I'm figuring Swazo is inferring, then you must know the root cause and what makes them fight.
Exactly. If we don't bother to understand the root causes of why people become terrorists, we'll just be sending troops to get killed in various ME countries indefinitely.
By "we have to understand the enemy" no one means "we need to sit down with a cup of tea and hold their hand while they tell us about the time their pet hamster died." It's scary that anyone would infer otherwise.
