It’s costly in both human lives and money and it’s only getting worse. They call it the war on drugs, or the war on terror or both. The red thin line between the two is gone.
Al-Qaeda proved to be nothing more than thug organization regardless their so called religious doctrine and beliefs. I’m not aware of Muslim population living in Columbia although Al-Qaeda is heavily involved with Columbian drug cartels. The reason is drug money.
By cleverly using the poor and ill educated young individual from various parts of the world Al-Qaeda has at its disposal a large brain-washed human pool they used whatever they like to. They give those lost souls a sense of identity in this world and a passport for the afterlife: 77 virgins and supposedly an eternity of luxury. That’s all you need to “create” a human detonator. I bet there are long lines at Al-Qaeda bomb-vests depots.
Perhaps instead of spending our soldiers lives and our money on endless wars on terror and drug trafficking we should focus on poor countries economy and education. I realize is a long and costly process however I think is better than slowly bleeding out in a long and senseless attrition war we have no chance of winning.