I’ve said it elsewhere and I’ll say it again here.
Once somebody has been recruited by the islamofascists and is willing to commit acts of terror, there probably is no recourse except to fight them and kill them.
However, the military course of action, no matter how wonderful you think it is, does nothing to stop the recruitment of thousands more young men willing to die. Just as terror is ineffective in quelling our anger, killing islamofascists will be ineffective in stopping recruitment. Anger and hatred beget anger and hatred – it has been so since the beginning of time.
It is not being an apologist to want to stop muslim youth from being willing recruits into the islamofascist terror machine. If they aren’t recruited, they won’t be trying to bomb us. They won’t kill our citizens or our soldiers.
If you don’t care how and why they have come to hate us, if you don’t do anything to counter that viewpoint, then you can simply be assured that their will be ongoing conflict and death. Death to our own citizens, our own soldiers, their citizens and their islamofascist recruits.
You might notice that three of those groups do not deserve to face conflict and death. Sure, war is hell, but there is no point making sure that it continues endlessly, is there?
Open up your minds. Everything that you do, or that anyone does, is for a reason. People aren’t born into the world hating someone else… they learn it.
Again, as I’ve said before, it may be because their media is spreading lies and giving them falsehoods. It may be that their religious education has been coopted by terrorist groups that spread propaganda. Who knows exactly what it is.
However, wherever they learn their hatred, this is the point at which terrorism can truly be stopped. When people don’t learn hatred, when they aren’t lied to and convinced they can become martyrs, then they don’t decide to strap bombs to themselves and kill people.
Apologism and appeasement are if you accept blame for and try to give people things. This is not what I’m suggesting at all. I’m not saying we need to take “blame” and “give” terrorists anything and hope they will go away. If that is what you are reading, you have a comprehension problem.
Kill the people spreading propaganda. Fight those that have become islamofascists. Find ways to counter the lies and spread of hatred. At times this may mean taking a look at actions taken, at other times it may mean making it clear why actions are fair and appropriate. Maybe it means finding ways to force regimes to spread appropriate messages, remove certain types of teaching and to adopt certain behaviors.
Heck, if sold to the American populace accurately, you can even go to war with other regimes and replace them with democracies – as long as you give the public (through their representatives) the ability to vote on the issue directly. Scaring them and creating linkages that turn out to be untrue is not the way to go about it.
Personally, I am not against the use of force, but it must be targeted and approved for the purpose used. Also, and significantly, I believe the true causes of terrorism cannot be eliminated by attacking countries. Terrorists are just random members of the populace, they don’t wear uniforms and they aren’t readily identifiable.
You can’t watch everyone all the time on a worldwide basis. It isn’t feasible.