Originally posted by Liberator
This ends one of two ways:
1)the peaceniks win and we talk our way out of it
2)we kill all the mullahs and other "clerics" who preach and indoctriate their hate as a means of control
The latter is far, FAR more likely to happen.
No it's not. You can see already it's doing the complete opposite - just ask the
CIA.
Again you're attempting to divide this complex issue into a black and white scenario with only 2 choices. Seeing the world in that way has never worked; not only that, it becomes a complete abdication of responsibility - you only need to say the 'only other' alternative is impossible and then give yourself carte blanche.
Have you considered
why there are people preaching against the west? (not that this is necessarily equivalent to recruitment to terrorist / jihadist groups - disliking or even hating the US and soforth does not automatically make someone a terrorist, as much as you may like it to)
Or why people
listen?
I mean, it's not because we live in democratic secular societies (at least, not for the majority - there's a lways a bunch of nutters, same as we have racists or bigots in every other country) - it's the arrogance of Us foreign policy that causes schisms. And 'arrogance' is lifted directly off of a
report from an indepedent federal advisorty comittee that provides advice to the DoD.
I'm sure most people remember this quote;
[q]
'Muslims do not hate our freedom, but rather they hate our policies [the report says]. The overwhelming majority voice their objections to what they see as one-sided support in favor of Israel and against Palestinian rights, and the long-standing, even increasing, support for what Muslims collectively see as tyrannies, most notably Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Pakistan and the Gulf states. Thus, when American public diplomacy talks about bringing democracy to Islamic societies, this is seen as no more than self-serving hypocrisy.'[/q]
Incidentally, how do you plan on killing all these clerics? How are the local people going to feel when you do so? Are they going to go 'oh, the West must be good; they come in and kill these religious leaders we go to the mosque to listen to'?
