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As far as I can see the strategy is to dig in and fight any type of even the most sensible legislation.For instance closing the gun show loophole. Or background checks or the known problem with staw purchasers (where a 2n'd party buys guns in order to turn around and sell them to people who can't legally own guns).
To your last point I don't accept that the only choices are total war or Islam or Isolationism. But then I don't think that we can simply choose a path that will quickly solve the problem of Terrorism.I think the problems with Terrorism will eventually be "fixed" but I don't think it's going to be completely a military or economic or education but a slow penetration of better ideas over generations. In the mean time I'm thinking the special forces will be busy. We used to burn witches in America. Although the last couple decades challenge the notion we have been moving away from that sort of thing. (Sarah Palin et al being the exception of course)
Quote from: BikerDude on December 07, 2015, 09:26:54 AMTo your last point I don't accept that the only choices are total war or Islam or Isolationism. But then I don't think that we can simply choose a path that will quickly solve the problem of Terrorism.I think the problems with Terrorism will eventually be "fixed" but I don't think it's going to be completely a military or economic or education but a slow penetration of better ideas over generations. In the mean time I'm thinking the special forces will be busy. We used to burn witches in America. Although the last couple decades challenge the notion we have been moving away from that sort of thing. (Sarah Palin et al being the exception of course)They aren't the "only choices" but they're the only ones likely to upset the status quo of just accepting that, every so often, a god-tinged lunatic will kill significant numbers of innocent Americans on American soil for religious and ideological reasons. And, if current trends keep, we will actively facilitate the tragedy by allowing larger numbers of them to come here while continuing to infuriate them by occupying their lands and attempting to stage their affairs.There is no rational basis to suspect an imminent sea-change in the muslim world view. It's critical to understand that "extreme" muslims are just those who put into action what the majority of the rest concede is the infallible word of god. They know the koran better than the "moderates." By the terms of the debate, they're right. Add to that the subsidization of wahhabi, salafi, ikhwan, tahrir, and other radical sects by Saudi Arabia, Iran, ohhhhh and those lovely palestinians. I'd love to believe I'm missing something. That there is an optimistic future for islam to modernize within the next, say, 100 years. I sincerely cannot see it. And no one has pointed it out, either.
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