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In reply to the discussion: Am I the only one thinking the best response to the Paris attacks is an intelligence response? [View all]napi21
(45,806 posts)from the little I've heard about internal ops, our intelligence community is having a very difficult time finding people who COULD fit into ISIS as a mole. There aren't very many Arabs or people who could pass for an Arab who on our side and WILLING to do a job like that. That, coupled with human instinct being retaliatory, I'm not sure we'd be able to convince the people of France & Russia (since it appears a terrorist planted a bomb on board that Russian plane in Egypt) that they just aren't going to see their Country avenge the murders of their fellow countrymen. Think back to 911...what would most Americans have said and done if no action had been taken for the murder of the Americans in NY & Pa?
Norm Goldman was discussing this on his show tonight. He also said he feared this was going to be another event in retaliation, and it would keep going like that for a couple hundred years unless someone comes up with another solution. Constant eye for an eye by both sides without end. To make it even worse, one of Norm's callers said he worked with a lot of people from the Middle East and that in their culture, it's not just an eye for an eye, but TWO eyes for one. I see this whole thing getting horribly worse as ISIS directly hits large numbers of people in different countries, and they all NEED to retaliate.
The exit of millions of people from the middle eastern countries (lots of countries) will be fleeing SOMEWHERE seeking asylum like the Syrians are now.