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2014-07-25 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Terrorism is a Tactic and It Must Be Defeated

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-07-25 04:37|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 While the author has many interesting points, IMO that he over-thinks the problem of terrorism. Shintoism, Nazism, and Communism all embraced terrorism and used the tactics of terrorists. All of these involved the aspects of fighting terrorists as well as fighting terrorism. These ideas were embedded within nation-states. While it is difficult to stamp out a cancerous idea it can be done. It is best to do it early. Usually, the world waits until this process is very costly. One cannot argue, debate, or negotiate with such people and hope to change their minds. They are zealots. One has to beat down those who hold these cancerous ideas by utterly defeating them. The movement which is cancerous usually grows in extent until the world recognizes the scope of the threat to the well-being of the world. One can not fight a war without a complete commitment to the defeat of the enemy on all fronts; on the battlefield as well as the mental and propaganda aspects. Today, it includes more sophisticated aspects such as the cyberwar. Strategies and tactics must accompany this commitment. It seems the U.S. of late has ceded its leadership role in the world. It has capitulated on the idea that its way of life and exceptionalism is the better way and the higher road. Part of the problem is that there has been an insidious erosion of this notion within the institution of American life; education, government, and the media. The country seems to have a fifth column working insidiously and assiduously against its goodness.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-07-25 10:06|| 2014-07-25 10:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Kill them all, GOD will sort them out. (A old quote, but still good)

Posted by Redneck Jim 2014-07-25 13:48|| 2014-07-25 13:48|| Front Page Top

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