This is for real. And what they do is, up until that time period when they can't strike, they become really obnoxious and awful, and they strike everything in sight it doesn't matter who or what.

That may be true of the war against Al Qaeda it is less obviously correct with regard to the Taliban. Obnoxious as their rule over Afghanistan was, the Taliban did not attack America, and Bush s war against it was not a war of last resort.

For example, one kills ten Kurds not because they are obnoxious or because the perpetrator has strong feelings against each of them taken individually, but only because they are Kurds by killing those ten persons he intends to contribute to the destruction of the group as such.