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Oh hogwash. Bombing innocent people simply isn't right and isn't effective. If you're honestly sympathizing with these people or justifying their actions (whi
by d23 11y ago
Oh hogwash.
Bombing innocent people simply isn't right and isn't effective. If you're honestly sympathizing with these people or justifying their actions (which you seem one skip and jump from doing), you should at least want them to do things that are effective at getting the change they want.
Then again, maybe their entire motive is to bring global sharia law and secure their place in heaven by killing as many innocent infidels as possible. As far as I know, ISIS has made no claims that were less extreme than this. I have no problem dehumanizing someone with that sort of motivation. It's barbaric; it's monstrous. They have made no attempt at diplomacy, and there is no chance.
- grandalf 11y agoIt isn't effective? So far in the past 15 years the terrorists have spent at most a few million dollars on their attacks, and the west has spent trillions. The amount of economic damage to the west has been profound, and yet our leaders would be happy to spend 20% of GDP indefinitely on ineffective projects attempting to thwart terrorism. So yes, terrorism works very well and often terrorist groups transition into respectable and moderate political parties.
- Karellen 11y agoYup, you're entirely correct. Fortunately, We would never do anything like bombing innocent people, because We are the Good Guys, and all our actions are therefore entirely justified. Only They do things like that, because They are the Bad Guys, and Their actions are barbaric and monstrous. https://theintercept.com/2015/11/06/u-s-journalists-who-instantly-exonerated-their-government-of-the-kunduz-hospital-attack-declaring-it-an-accident/ https://theintercept.com/2015/11/06/u-s-journalists-who-inst...