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Many anti-war activists have held that terrorists are like ghosts—impossible to fight due to an ability to become invisible within a national population.
The current conflict in Fallujah is evidence to the contrary. Specifically, a large number of terrorists have gathered there, initially for the purposes of staging operations intended to drive us out of Iraq. But we didn’t get driven. And now they’re trapped. From Belmont Club:
From UAVs wheeling overhead to Marines going through alleys linked by their intra-squad radios (a kind of headset and boom-mike operated comm device), the US force is generating lethal, real-time information which is almost immediately transformed into strike action. Against this, the jihadis have no chance. This doesn’t mean (as I pointed out above) that there will be no American losses. The battlefield is too lethal to hope for that. But it does mean that terrorism has unleashed a terrible engine upon itself. Capabilities which didn’t exist on September 11 have now been deployed in combat. It isn’t that American forces have become inconceivably lethal that is scary; it is that the process has just started.
Terrorists are not ghosts; they are not invisible. They failed in their effort to intimidate us into submission, and now a whole bunch of them are going to get exterminated.
See the Belmont Club article for additional detail.
