go in there and eradicate the problem
I would wholeheartedly agree with this course of action.The issue is this: I hear a lot of people say "why don't we just carpet bomb ISIS", and then I ask them "Where would you bomb then?"
There isn't just a big group of religious extremists hanging around in a neat little building off the dirt track in Syria. They're everywhere, living in caves, living just down the street from you. They're less of a beehive, more of a rainforest fungus colony.
Got in a bit of a heated debate with my girl friend last night, she was complaining about why the government wasn't doing more to stop terrorism. The following analogy seemed the easiest fit:
if 100,000 people die a year in the UK, about 40 of those are from terrorist attacks. The other 90-odd percent are from things like stabbings, cancer, heart disease, and other illnesses. I'd rather the government spent the money ensuring the health of the masses than spending millions on preventing deaths through terrorism. You're about ten times more likely to die falling out of bed than you are of a terrorist attack, but you don't see MI6 putting IKEA bunk beds on a watch list and having spyplanes following the delivery trucks.
