As a Tennessean, it is odd to see how the murderous rampage

[hollowdweller]

51. I think with the radical Islamic ideology that is the fad now along with easy availability

Of high capacity weapons we will see more of this sort of stuff over and over.

I don't think that states like TN will do anything to curb the weapons being used. It's just not politically possible.

I also don't think that the Islamic religion seems to be able to speak with one voice regarding some of the extremely bad things being done by their adherents.

To me the global Islamic movement that sort of makes this possible is sort of like the hippie movement of the 60's and 70's, except it's the opposite as far as the aim. Seems to be spreading thru all countries, like long hair the hijab and Islamic dress is the uniform. Seems to be sort of a youth movement.

In time all or most of the violent hippies turned to politics instead to achieve their goals, it seems like the current global Islamic radical movement sort of rejects politics but hope remains that they will eventually embrace them.

What is good for us in the US I guess is this movement seems now to be focusing less on attacking the US, I mean we are no longer occupying any Islamic countries, and they are focusing more on killing their co religionists the Shiites or other sects in the region.

What I find interesting is Reagan pulled US troops out of the middle east and we really did not experience any terrorist attacks again till the during the Clinton admin and at that point it was allegedly due to Bush being in Saudi Arabia.

I think Obama is pursuing the right course getting us out and I worry about the current crop of GOP people wanting to get us back in.
In the absence of large numbers of US troops in the middle east I think they will occupy themselves with sectarian war and many of the young recruits from western countries will wind up going there to kill other muslims rather than staying here.