Palestine

[Deesse23]

With such hydras, it seems the best plausible strategy is to keep them from growing too large whilst waiting for them to die from other causes.

That does not work. You cant forcefully prevent guerillas (or terrorist organisations: Different term, but same mechanics) from recruiting from the local population. The only way to "beat" such forces is to properly starve them off, by cutting them off from public support of the large population. And that you can only do by winning the populations mind and support. And thats the cardinal mistake the US is doing in the near and middle east: Its constantly alienating (or does not give a f.ck) the locals. It is supporting opressive regimes like in Iran (Shah) or Saudi Arabia, based on short sighted goals like oil etc. not being really worth the cost. People like Bismarck are probably still rotating in their graves about this.

A proper (imho) appraoch of someone like the US would be to first promot secularisation (yeah, fuck you Winter) of these countrees. Dont support extrmists and fanatics, defund them, fight them. Of course the US needs to get rid of its own heavy religious influence in its own government (the secular constitution notwithstanding, thats the bitter irony). Without having to please its own evangelical fundamentalists, its not pressured to support Israel, a country that evidently has its own extremists to please and own war crimes it regularly commits. It also need to stop supporting fundamentalists (*cough* Afghanistan in the 80s, Saudi arabia *cough*) of "opposing" religious groups for purley ulterior motives