Kill the movement, not the players

This is the scariest thing I've read all day. Terence J. Daly is a retired military intelligence officer and counterinsurgency specialist who agrees with me that conventional military strategies won't win against an insurgency. He makes some great points in that you can't defeat them by killing insurgents but rather you have to undermine the movement itself.

But then he takes it a step beyond my comfort zone. Here's the chilling graf.

Stringent population control measures like curfews, random searches, mandatory presentation of identity documents, searches of businesses and residences without warrants and preventive detention would be standing operating procedure.

Now he does go on to say, "For such measures to be acceptable to the public, they must be based on solid legal ground and enforced fairly, transparently and impartially." However, I don't see how you can operate under the law with that strategy. And how long, in an administration that considers its political opponents tantamount to insurgents, before the White House might seek to use the same methods on Americans?