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The Soviets left Afghanistan alone after years of trying to take it over.
When they left, Islamic terrorism against their interests stops.
When the Red Coats and the colonials were fighting... what were the yanks doing to the British? What happened afterwards when they normalise relations?
We can go through every country and ever war and see these kind of examples.
As Sun Tzu says, to move soldiers (and unite the people) against an enemy, you must rouse the people to anger.
Why would sane and normal people like you and I permit or shrug or just ignore endless wars against any group of people if we do not believe them to be barbaric savages out there to harm us and the world?
As George Orwell had warned us, don't think that Animal Farm is just about propaganda and state deceptions perpetrated by the Soviets and other authoritarian states... it's also done in open and democratic societies - just that it's harder to see and know it's being done because no one who peacefully oppose it gets to disappear. They just don't get rewarded with high pay and such common thing as rewards for honesty and proper scholarships.
So appeasement is your answer ?
It doesn't work against lunatics, it just makes them feel more empowered.
Neville Chamberlain tried it and it didn't work. Britain endured acts of terrorism against them, night bombings and V2 rocket attacks but they won in the end and the world is better off because they did.
I'm afraid that's the way it will have to be in the current "struggles".