That AJZ article is typical of the pure cowardice that I've seen from a good number op/ed pieces regarding this effort to secure Kenya's borders. If Al and Bob, the run down, terrorist street-rat thugs with guns can put this much fear into people, imagine the terror that an organized networked "terrorist army" could inflict on the scared, feeble, weak people that seem to think that letting the terrorists win is an option. IT'S NOT AN OPTION. Left alone, terrorist networks grow, organize, and spread. Al and Bob MUST be cut off at the knees and the neck NOW.
Cowards always loose, as they are unwilling to fight. Cowards have their opinions- they want to talk and make a "deal" with these devils. But there is no level of compliance, agreement, or surrender that will appease a terrorist. Terror is their JOB.
Then there are the prideful, that think because their "advanced" technologies and armies couldn't contain Al and Bob, that Kenya cannot either. I say those that failed lacked the will and lacked the commitment.
Al and Bob must be destroyed for there to be continuing peace and stability in East Africa, before this virus called Al-Shebaab spreads like the diseased plague that it is.
Kenya will prevail.
Best,
Hill