Wait, a "war on fill-in-the-blank" works counterintuitively?

Well, that's what Reuters is reporting today, that the war on terror actually is fueling al Qaeda.

See, the problem with terrorists is that they're really difficult to pinpoint, just like drug dealers. Therefore, to attack "terrorism" at large really doesn't do much to the source of the problem; instead, it just attacks people at the individual level.

Granted, individual acts of terrorism are much more destructive than individuals using drugs; however, if you're not trying to shut down Pablo Escobar but only trying to stop people from using his cocaine, I'm pretty sure the problem will not be going away very quickly.