"That offers a reminder of what it takes to win a war on terror. Miranda warnings, civilian trials and shaking down blue-haired ladies at airports don't do it. Hunting and killing terrorists do."
Investment Business Daily has a good article today about how Indonesia has lowered their terrorism rate since they started fighting them with the intention of winning....Doing whatever it takes to win and calling it a WAR! Why are we telling our soldiers that they cannot fire on terrorists in Afghanistan if they are hiding among civilians? How can we win with one hand tied behind our back? It's disgusting. It's OK for our soldiers to die but we mustn't kill an Afghan who supposedly is not a fighter? What????
Terrorism: Indonesia has fallen off the map of the most-terror-prone places on Earth, corporate intelligence forecasters say. How did that happen in a nation once plagued by Bali's bombers? By annihilating the enemy.
This week, Britain's Maplecroft group, an assessor of corporate risk, dropped Indonesia from its top 10 nations most likely to experience a mass-casualty terrorist attack. The group bases its Terrorism Risk Index entries on frequency and intensity of terror attacks and a nation's history.
Likewise, the Swedish National Defense College has concluded that there's a diminishing threat in Indonesia.
If that sounds academic, consider that Indonesian and U.S. officials said no significant security risks threaten President Obama ahead of his weeklong trip to Indonesia next month.
Now, to be sure, terrorism isn't completely gone from Indonesia. But there's been a lot of silence recently from that island country on the terror front. For a nation that experienced some fearsome terror attacks in past years, each quiet month is a sign of victory.
The reason isn't hard to recognize:Last September, Indonesian commandos blew away a Malaysian terrorist named Noordin Mohammed Top, who had a hand in every major Indonesian terror attack since the first Bali bombing of 2002.
It says something that getting rid of a single terrorist kingpin could have such an impact on Indonesia's outlook. But it did.
That offers a reminder of what it takes to win a war on terror. Miranda warnings, civilian trials and shaking down blue-haired ladies at airports don't do it. Hunting and killing terrorists do. Read at IBD "Indonesia Cuts Terror"
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