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Originally Posted by Dante Hicks
It's difficult to take articles like this seriously when they gloss over the motivation for acts like these, like it's some ****ing mystery.
Of course people are going to die through terrorist actions, but we might want to think why "Islam" suddenly decided it didn't like "us".
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we've been at war with "islam" for 1300 years now.
i agree that that was a shitty article, and i would say that flaw is certainly part of the reason, but i haven't heard any policy proposals that would really help (obviously the current admin's policy of "some napalm outta put this fire right out" isn't optimal, but aside from the obvious).
anyway, I (and I assume almost everyone) am in the John Kerry school of thought on the subject. We will never bring about a total end to terrorism, even if there was some Magic Policy that would suddenly make the Islam world love us, I'm sure it would at the same time piss off a bunch of right wing crazies domestically who would take a lil' terror into their own hands. We can't jerk off everyone on the planet at once.
However, over any range of time you can think of, terrorism hasn't been 1% as bad a problem as shitty driving. Competent diplomacy, 'public relations', and counter-terrorism can keep it that way for the forseeable future.