Pitfalls of yet another U.S. war on Muslims

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Re: Pitfalls of yet another U.S. war on Muslims

@OneYourMomWarnedAbt

I don’t agree with this. This is the kind of thinking that got us to this mess. There is more than one way to eliminate a threat like this. The bombing that we are seeing is very short-sighted. I would have liked them use containment followed by elimination. Because, if you bomb and kill these guys, the violent ideology behind it will survive and spread. And it will be very expensive to counter once it spreads to the west. The moral imperative you mentioned earlier is to kill that ideology first and then go after these guys. It is not easy, but then the easy path that was tried in 2003 did not really work. We have used the stick of bombing and it failed. We have used the carrot of democracy, and that failed too. We need a different approach, because we are reading it wrong.

PS: I don’t think anyone here will disagree with you that ISIS needs to go. Only the way to deal with it.

Thats like saying we should treat malignant melanoma with herbal medicine and prayer. i dont think they are going away without aggresive surgery and heavy chemo. didnt we learn that lesson with the TTP ?

Ideally you would treat cancer by removing the tumor and containing its spread simultaneously.

By all means, counter the ideology etc all you like, but ISIS is a clear and present danger that has to be dealt with on an emergency basis.