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Ok excellent. We've established that it's terrorism. So how is that blowback for American policies?

FedRegister 13y ago
Not all acts of terror are blowback for American policies. Nobody ever claimed that they were. Just that all acts of terror were blowback for something.
- uwotm8920 13y ago
  So what is this a blowback for?
jacquesm 13y ago
> We've established that it's terrorism. Something tells me you were aiming for that. But in fact it isn't, it's just people with a few screws loose in their head that are afraid of emancipated and educated women closely aligned with a religion. Think 'insecure males' before you think 'terrorism' in this particular case.
- uwotm8920 13y ago
  Sure thing, Jacques. It's just a few silly individuals. It's not like there's a whole ideology and movement and organization that supports their actions. http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/11/21/250864.html http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/11/21/250864.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban
  - ferdo 13y ago
    > It's not like there's a whole ideology and movement and organization that supports their actions. The same can be said of the culture of illegal invasions, illegal detentions, secret trials, secret jails, spying, drone attacks and other fun things brought by the National Security State. The Taliban is far younger than and wouldn't exist but for the American National Security State. Let's keep cause and effect in mind here.
    - uwotm8920 13y ago
      So you're saying that Islamism (political Islam) is a response to American imperialism?
      - ferdo 13y ago
        Not just a response. More like an effect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone
sophacles 13y ago
You are now engaging in a particularly uncreative and disingenuous form of goalpost moving. Just because it's blowback doesn't mean it's for American policies. It's local blowback for local policies. You can continue to fake at naive, but seriously - you are smart enough to follow hacker news, you are smart enough to understand context. (Hint, it's basically the same as variable scoping). What is the point you are so uninterestingly trying to make? Are you just super sad and annoyed that someone dare suggest that the US didn't do something good? Or are you just a sockpuppet loser who needs to continue the "terrorism is evil and we are stopping it!" propaganda?
- uwotm8920 13y ago
  It's not goalpost moving. > It's local blowback for local policies. Right. So a girl wants self determination and education and local policies allow her to do that and she gets shot in the head for that. The point is that there are real people in the world that have very regressive views and are willing to murder school girls to promote their ideology. These are dangerous people. As much as you would like to bury your head in the sand and pretend that it's all a government conspiracy, these people do exist and they are smart and ambitious. > a sockpuppet loser who needs to continue the "terrorism is evil and we are stopping it!" propaganda Oh I disagree with you so I must be a shill. What a liberal and open minded person you are. Please fucking go back to reddit. Actually, on second thought, please invite all your friends here so this place burns down faster.
  - sophacles 13y ago
    You're some person who has been here for all of 13 hours and you're complaining about quality degradation of the site? Sure you aren't a sockpupptet. You just act like one and have a hard time with explanations that answer your questions rationally. Oh and you are goalpost moving because each rational explanation is met with a change of topic as if it invalidates the explanation - the definition of goalpost moving basically. Come back when you're old enough to do simple logic and basic reading comprehension.

Not all acts of terror are blowback for American policies. Nobody ever claimed that they were. Just that all acts of terror were blowback for something.

uwotm8920 13y ago
So what is this a blowback for?

jacquesm 13y ago

> We've established that it's terrorism. Something tells me you were aiming for that. But in fact it isn't, it's just people with a few screws loose in their head that are afraid of emancipated and educated women closely aligned with a religion. Think 'insecure males' before you think 'terrorism' in this particular case.

uwotm8920 13y ago
Sure thing, Jacques. It's just a few silly individuals. It's not like there's a whole ideology and movement and organization that supports their actions. http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/11/21/250864.html http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/11/21/250864.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban
- ferdo 13y ago
  > It's not like there's a whole ideology and movement and organization that supports their actions. The same can be said of the culture of illegal invasions, illegal detentions, secret trials, secret jails, spying, drone attacks and other fun things brought by the National Security State. The Taliban is far younger than and wouldn't exist but for the American National Security State. Let's keep cause and effect in mind here.
  - uwotm8920 13y ago
    So you're saying that Islamism (political Islam) is a response to American imperialism?
    - ferdo 13y ago
      Not just a response. More like an effect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone

sophacles 13y ago

You are now engaging in a particularly uncreative and disingenuous form of goalpost moving. Just because it's blowback doesn't mean it's for American policies. It's local blowback for local policies. You can continue to fake at naive, but seriously - you are smart enough to follow hacker news, you are smart enough to understand context. (Hint, it's basically the same as variable scoping). What is the point you are so uninterestingly trying to make? Are you just super sad and annoyed that someone dare suggest that the US didn't do something good? Or are you just a sockpuppet loser who needs to continue the "terrorism is evil and we are stopping it!" propaganda?

uwotm8920 13y ago
It's not goalpost moving. > It's local blowback for local policies. Right. So a girl wants self determination and education and local policies allow her to do that and she gets shot in the head for that. The point is that there are real people in the world that have very regressive views and are willing to murder school girls to promote their ideology. These are dangerous people. As much as you would like to bury your head in the sand and pretend that it's all a government conspiracy, these people do exist and they are smart and ambitious. > a sockpuppet loser who needs to continue the "terrorism is evil and we are stopping it!" propaganda Oh I disagree with you so I must be a shill. What a liberal and open minded person you are. Please fucking go back to reddit. Actually, on second thought, please invite all your friends here so this place burns down faster.
- sophacles 13y ago
  You're some person who has been here for all of 13 hours and you're complaining about quality degradation of the site? Sure you aren't a sockpupptet. You just act like one and have a hard time with explanations that answer your questions rationally. Oh and you are goalpost moving because each rational explanation is met with a change of topic as if it invalidates the explanation - the definition of goalpost moving basically. Come back when you're old enough to do simple logic and basic reading comprehension.