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===Fight the terror network on the internet so we don't have to fight them here===
Lute [http://www.washingtontechnology.com/online/1_1/29734-1.html said ] "You need a network to defeat a network", a concept "key to winning against al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Iraq."
Lute stated that "al-Qaida is a networked organization but that 'our organization is still the same as before the war and it is insufficient to defeat the enemy.'
"They have a safe haven on the Internet," Lute said. "No one in the U.S. military has been tasked with the mission of attacking these intangibles. Until we do they will operate with impunity" and, "[as] long as that situation prevails, ... the United States and its coalition allies will not be able to vanquish the terrorist enemy."
Lute argued: "The enemy is targeting the political will of this country, ... He knows he can’t beat us on the battlefield and he is OK with that."
===Large numbers of troops not needed===
