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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
Unfortunately, there is only one way to walk away from the middle east, and that is true isolation.
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I have a problem with this strategy for the simple reason that as horrible as what happened today was, it's a Sunday afternoon picnic as compared to what one might laughingly refer to as the life of persecuted groups in a modern Caliphate. The worst sufferers of fundamentalist Islamist regimes, certainly the worst sufferers of Isis, are Muslim. Abandoning them because they had the misfortune of being born in that part of the world just strikes me as horribly wrong.
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Long term, we need to find a way to get as much western style education to the masses of these countries as we can. Educated people are rarely a physical threat, or easily swayed by magical arguments.
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Frankly, and it sounds like a political line designed to get applause, but the most effective thing that could be done would be the empowerment of women as equal citizens rather than chattels. Obviously easier said than done, but this should really be the primary goal of modern feminism.