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2006-09-03 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Snease Shaiting3550 2006-09-03 01:11|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 We should learn to see terrorism as a criminal enterprise and attack it as ruthlessly as we will any other such criminal activity that has the capacity to cause so much devastation.

Good up until the above quote: The Law Enforcement model is kaput, useless, with "nation building" being the equivalent of "rehabilitation".

I don't reject "root cause" analysis either: one merely needs to recognize that a "root cause" analysis that doesn't mention contrary facts, or treats them with distain, is immediately suspect. Most libs indulge in this sort of "pseudo-cause-effect analysis" because it is a pale imitation of the engineering-based real thing.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2006-09-03 08:35|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2006-09-03 08:35|| Front Page Top

#2 The root cause of terrorism is islam. I'm still waiting for western leaders to clearly speak this inconvenient truth.

Posted by Mark Z 2006-09-03 10:12|| 2006-09-03 10:12|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't reject "root cause" analysis either: one merely needs to recognize that a "root cause" analysis that doesn't mention contrary facts, or treats them with distain, is immediately suspect.

IMHO, most talk about a "root cause" is just an excuse to substitute the speaker's policy preferences for those of the people they're speaking about. Thus, you had idiots claiming that the cause of 9/11 was rejection of Kyoto.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-09-03 11:59|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-09-03 11:59|| Front Page Top

#4 The root cause of nearly all of the worlds problems is the fact that Islam is childish. What is mine will always be mine. Doesn't matter if I grabbed it unfairly its mine! its mine! its mine!

This applies to Andalusia, Israel, and Indonesia. Islam does not play with others. It is the spoiled brat religion that really needs a spanking and then to sit in the corner for a few centuries until they grow up.

Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz 2006-09-03 15:55|| rjschwarz.com]">[rjschwarz.com] 2006-09-03 15:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Mark Z
The root cause of terrorism is islam

It didn't take me 5 years to learn that. It boggles the mind that we are in the minority.

Posted by Snease Shaiting3550 2006-09-03 19:42|| 2006-09-03 19:42|| Front Page Top

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