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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Simply because this was an act outside of the conduct of a solider. He wasn't following orders at all, its far different. On top of that "the other side" is completely different, and we usually have a pretty good idea of why they do what they do, what we have trouble with is the degree's that they do it.
Its funny because multiple people have said even on this board that the cure for extremism is with education and lifting people out of poverty and that's what the Canadian's and American's tried to do in Afghanistan with the nation building, they also tried it in Iraq, but its becoming apparent that that line of thinking is failing. Even with attempts to rebuild schools and infrasture in those countries they're still fertile recruiting grounds for extreme hate and terrorism.
To me there's a massive cultural divide that will never ever be bridged because its like hoping into a time machine and traveling back to the 1400's and trying to hold a civilized conversation with people back then.
I think we're going to find that the only solution is to withdraw from those nations, give them no foreign aid and ramp up your intelligence services so that you can continue to try to keep these groups unbalanced while killing their leaders in significant numbers to force them to use inexperienced leaders.
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I appreciate what you are saying, but didn't that all change to some extent when things came closer to home, with the bombings in New York. IMO, to even vaguely consider going down the nuclear path is 1000 times more dangerous, and I have lived through the entire cold war.
Surely we have to have some hope that this world can be changed for the better, without continually building rage in the majority of people who think and act different than us.