OT Attack in Paris 60 dead

[Legbreaker]

Now 166 dead.
And there's a report of a bomb at Gatwick airport in the UK.

[RN7]

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

Now 166 dead.
And there's a report of a bomb at Gatwick airport in the UK.

British police have cleared Gatwick. French national (probably Muslim) under arrest. Undercover and armed police all over London with British Army SRR Regiment on patrol. London's barracks on high alert, SAS on standby and Para/Gurkha contingent 30 minutes away on helicopters. If ISIS vermin think London is a soft target there in for a very unpleasant surprise.

[Targan]

These attacks are all too easy to perpetrate. We absolutely have to use military responses to individual threats, but if that's the only type of response we use, this shit is going to continue for a long time. The problem is twisted versions of religion, and violent ideologies. Many jihadis have had little to no formal education save what they can get for free in a Saudi-funded madrasa, and what sort of education do you think that would be? Then you've got deluded young westerners who have bought into the increasingly sophisticated jihadist propaganda that's all to easy to spread via social media.

If we don't find a way to drag out of miserable, abject poverty and ignorance the large parts of the Islamic world where all too many people basically have bugger all to live for, if we don't find a way to provide more secular, western-style education to those people, if we don't find better ways to support and de-radicalise disaffected Islamic youth inside our own countries, this "War on Terror" is going to continue for ever.

[Nowhere Man 1966]

Originally Posted by Targan

These attacks are all too easy to perpetrate. We absolutely have to use military responses to individual threats, but if that's the only type of response we use, this shit is going to continue for a long time. The problem is twisted versions of religion, and violent ideologies. Many jihadis have had little to no formal education save what they can get for free in a Saudi-funded madrasa, and what sort of education do you think that would be? Then you've got deluded young westerners who have bought into the increasingly sophisticated jihadist propaganda that's all to easy to spread via social media.

If we don't find a way to drag out of miserable, abject poverty and ignorance the large parts of the Islamic world where all too many people basically have bugger all to live for, if we don't find a way to provide more secular, western-style education to those people, if we don't find better ways to support and de-radicalise disaffected Islamic youth inside our own countries, this "War on Terror" is going to continue for ever.

You do have good points although if I may add that the only way they know over there is to keep peace, you generally need a strongman with a good army/henchmen force if you will. As bad as Saddam Hussein was, he kept a lid on things of this type but he did play into the Islamic radical side to stick it, or try to, to the Wet as the two Gulf Wars carried on. Assad, the same way and so on. I think you're right, again, the problem is that we need the will, the money and resources. We can't afford it, not we cannot afford it either. I know we have to do the same thing to Germany and Japan after World War II but we were king of the world then, not so much now and we have a lot of problems here. The only way I can see this remotely happening is a coalition as my cousin pointed out yesterday. Even so, the people we need to change will want to change, will they want to do it? That's the $64 billion question.