What Lima Showed Us Terror, like nuclear war, like gas warfare, is among the ultimate tools in the arsenal of totally ruthless war, where nothing counts but victory. No place for 'niceties' like humanitarian rules. Terror is the nuclear bomb of the poor and the kamikaze are the ultimate form of terror. Because they misunderstood where their power lay.
Time is the enemy of terror.
They lost the momentum. They put themselves into a position of a besieged fortress, a long term prison. This is a situation in which alertness sooner or later wears out. You cannot overcome those on the outside with patience. The guerrillas allowed too many unknown, uncontrollable factorsto develop with time.