An ostensible "support network" for Richard Reid, known as the Shoe Bomber, has allegedly been ferreted out by French authorities, who have made arrests. Here is an article on the subject in
The Times.
This suggests that police in the west do have the resources to track down and break up terrorist "cells." What are your thoughts? Is the
soi-disant war on terrorism winable in any meaningful context? Outside of pacifying Afghanistan, is there anything constructive, anything lasting which can be accomplished?