STRATEGIC DIALOGUE

Bullets and bombs may kill the body but they cannot kill the mind.

This is the reality the  Americans  are  facing now. They have only succeeded in destroying  the body of Osama Bin Laden not his mind. This is also applicable to the ongoing Israelis and Palestine dispute.

Likewise, Professor Chinua Achebe's controversial  book titled, "There was a country" implies that superior fire power may have destroyed a country named Biafra but it  did not destroy the mind of Biafra.

In tackling the menace of Boko Haram, superior fire power  alone is not enough, there is also the need for strategic dialogue, bearing in mind that, if Boko Haram does not have an organised organisation it would have long been subdued.