re: #323 BishopX

I would also like to point out that the war imagery used against terrorists is a potent recruiting tool since it validates their world-view. Treating them like the scum they are rather than some dangerous hidden state-level actor does a lot to rob their propaganda of legitimacy.

But they are dangerous hidden actors, if not at the state level than at least on what Foreign Affairs has called the Mezzanine level (above a normal NGO or criminal organization, but below a state).