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Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce
There have been an estimated 170,000 people killed by ISIS in Iraq.
To suggest anything to do with them is limited to 'hating us' is entirely incorrect.
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I agree. But people both in Beirut and in Paris see and experience the deaths in Syria and Iraq differently from the ones that hit closer to home.
One of the common misconcepts in the West is to think of the Middle-East as one place full of war and terror, but that's not how it works. However, ISIS wants to bring the war to Europe. And Lebanon. And Russia. And just everywhere they can.
ISIS are literally worse than Nazis. They're the type of caricature evil that normally exists in fiction.
That said.
If we (and I'm speaking of humanity in general, not just the West) simply gun down ISIS but find no solution to the political chaos in Iraq and Syria, another similar group will inevitably rise from the ruins. (That would probably require re-drawing those colonization era maps for starters.)
Iraq and Afghanistan are pretty recent examples of how well sheer military force works as a way to stop international terrorism.