It would be nice if we could just leave them alone. Unfortunately they're always going to find something to want to kill us for. Pre 9/11 it was us having a few bases in SA. If it wasn't that it would be something else.
Maybe at the core it's jealousy of our affluence, or maybe it's religious. Who cares? The goal should be to reduce the number of innocents killed. What will accomplish that goal? It's clearly not the nice approach as we've seen in France and Belgium.
So what is your "strong" approach and how is it different from what we've done before?
At this point, I imagine it has become a path to Heaven to many, similar to the Vikings wanting to die in battle to reach Valhalla.
The Virgins thing and all, etc.
It's that brainwashing/indoctrination of young and impressionable/idealistic minds that has been going on since almost forever.
It's hard to change the way someone who has been hardwired to believe a certain concept from birth into other ways of seeing the world in general.
Reductio ad absurdum used as a straw man. Nobody in this thread has suggested we shouldn't enforce any laws.
Pre-911 I would say the bases in SA, the war in Kuwait, our involvement in the Isreali\Palastinian situation, and of course our support for dictatorships or revolution depending on what time of day.
Anyways ever since our involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan their reach has expanded to the point the radicals are running a somewhat functional state across much of Iraq and Syria now. Talk about the worst possible result from our policies.
I would also like to know if any country has successfully implemented this 'strong' approach.
Keep in mind those young and impressionable minds are also dealing with abject poverty.
But according to a lot of people we should cut foreign aid.
sounds like victim blaming to me
japan
they have home-grown issues (Aum Shinrikyo) but not imported ones
Pre-911 I would say the bases in SA, the war in Kuwait, our involvement in the Isreali\Palastinian situation, and of course our support for dictatorships or revolution depending on what time of day.
Anyways ever since our involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan their reach has expanded to the point the radicals are running a somewhat functional state across much of Iraq and Syria now. Talk about the worst possible result from our policies.
Is there no way to deal with these people?
Japan is also an island the size of Montana.
Can you explain how? Do you believe Obama intended his audience to believe that 100% of the refugees were widows and orphans? If not, do you think it was a rhetorical device that accurately described the demographics of US refugees as overwhelmingly women and small children?
Factcheck.org does not share your evaluation that what he said was a 'blatant lie'. Can you explain why you came to such a different conclusion than they did that doesn't involve unfounded accusations of pro-Obama bias?
yea, you catch those responsible and punish them accordingly.
Not all muslims are radical, but of course, now I am a terrorist sympathizer for mentioning such blasphemy.
There will be no simple solution to fix this isis problem, it's world wide and it's in small clusters. So who would jesus bomb?
Japan is also a bunch of islands the size of Montana.
Did we really have a choice in Afghanistan though? It was a sovereign state openly supporting a terrorist group who was attacking the United States and killing hundreds of people. I mean, your options are rather limited at that point. I'll concede Iraq was a mistake.
I find it interesting that there continue to be attacks against our European allies but no more major attacks against the United States. I wonder if this is due to the efforts of our intelligence organizations (lol) or due to the terrorists' belief that another direct attack would result in the gloves coming off?
more relevant is their population, which is 127 million, or approximately UK+France combined
Given that they had just captured Salah Abdeslam theres no surprise in the timing of this.
There you go. No charge!
Doubtful. They just captured him yesterday, but these attacks had to have been planned at least weeks in advance, if not months.
yea, you catch those responsible and punish them accordingly.
Not all muslims are radical, but of course, now I am a terrorist sympathizer for mentioning such blasphemy.
planned yes, but able to attack on short notice (like a sleeper cell that is activated)?
he (President Obama) is fixated on turning America’s attention to Asia. For Obama, Asia represents the future. Africa and Latin America, in his view, deserve far more U.S. attention than they receive. Europe, about which he is unromantic, is a source of global stability that requires, to his occasional annoyance, American hand-holding. And the Middle East is a region to be avoided—one that, thanks to America’s energy revolution, will soon be of negligible relevance to the U.S. economy.
It is not oil but another of the Middle East’s exports, terrorism, that shapes Obama’s understanding of his responsibilities there.
The point is Japan has a much easier way to control their borders than the entirety of Europe or the United States.