re: #349 RogueOne

They don’t need excuses to act like assholes, it’s who they are. The only way it could be funnier is if they used women’s names on them.//

Updinged you anyway, but there’s no need for us to basically hand jihadis a recruiting tool. That’s what this kind of shit does.

They’re falling apart anyway. I’m not saying jihad isn’t a major problem and threat, but the global jihad has been falling apart, imo.
Cracks in the Jihad
Takeaway:

In combating terrorism, therefore, quantity matters as much as quality. But some numbers matter more than others. How many additional American and European troops are sent to Afghanistan matters less than the number of terrorist plots that don’t happen. Success will be found subtly in statistics, in data curves that slope down or level off, not in one particular action, one capitulation, or even one leader’s death. It will be marked not by military campaigns and other events but by decisions not taken and attacks not launched. Because participation in the holy war in both its local and global forms is an individual decision, these choices have to be the unit of analysis, and influencing them must be the goal of policy and strategy. As in crime prevention, measuring success—how many potential terrorists did not join an armed group or commit a terrorist act—is nearly impossible. Success against Islamic militancy may wear a veil.

It really is a battle for hearts and minds in the long term view.