From Murdoc:
The reference is to this story in USA Today: “Al-Qaeda video shows boys training to kill, kidnap.” I’ve always been dubious of the notion that it didn’t matter how many terrorists we killed because that number would always be outpaced by recruitment (because, in general, it is American foreign policy that breeds terrorism, and in particular the Bush administration). Killing terrorists is an inherently good thing. And if it’s not an end in and of itself, it’s pretty darn close. The more terrorists you maim and kill, the less attractive terrorism becomes as a career option for disaffected Muslim youths (rich and poor). And the fact that Iraqis are turning to children and the mentally handicapped as a recruitment pool, just as the the Palestinians did as the last intifada petered out, would seem to bode well for this kind of logic.
