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Originally Posted by dobbles
to be totally honest, i am surprised they didn't try something major against you guys. they hit most of the countries that were sending troops in an effort to get them to bail. it worked in places like spain. so i guess you guys should feel lucky to be flying under the radar.
i am a pretty big pacifist in general but these people are crazy. i am just sad that my country chose to spend so much time fighting a false war instead of putting more effort into getting rid of the more dangerous folks.
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One of the big problems is to stop calling this a war, or political ideology conflict..
Its ISLAM acting like ISLAM. Its a religious conflict, and we all know war solves those
You can't kill every single Muslim, so war is not going to be the solution. There was a 'pew poll' (or some other company in the US) that studied a large number of terrorist conflicts and how they resolved. None were ended by military actions, most of them ended with diplomacy and involving the moderates in the process which eventually alienated the more extreme elements of the terrorists.
But we avoid like the plague calling the war on terror what it truly is for a few reasons, fear of insulting Islam (you mean they can hate us more than they already do?) and our fear of offending religious people.
We're really getting off topic now though, sorry
