I agree with your posts. This seems more likely to be a disgruntled employee or something like that.
I also would echo your point about getting “deep into their bench” of available talent. It’s a point I’ve been making myself... thousands and thousands of their best talent have flooded into Afghanistan and Iraq over the last several years, only to be annihilated by the Marines.
I think that old line about how if you kill one of them that “another will just rise up in their place...” has been exposed as demonstrably untrue. Seems pretty clear that when you kill them they just stay dead... and if they’re replaced they’re replaced by lesser trained, lesser committed, and frankly less intelligent and less cabable jihadis. There’s fewer of them all the time and the ones that are left just aren’t the Varsity squad anymore.
Yup. And that's a point that the "Get the US out of..." folks just don't see, I think. These jihadis don't seem to care *where* they take a shot at Americans, so long as they're getting the opportunity to it.
I'd rather keep them at arm's length, and attacking heavily armed&prepared soldiers, rather than my kid's playground in my backyard.