Listening to the GOPers, they're all talking as if Farook's radicalization is like some alien curse

[MrScorpio]

84. Well, for one thing, the chances of Daesh establishing itself in this country…

And radicalizing a sizable portion of the US population where it has parity with the vast majority of current mass killers is nil. Also, the goal of a military response against Daesh in Iraq and Syria would have nothing to do with responding to what happened in San Bernardino. What happened in California has much more in common with the conditions that have inspired other mass shootings in this country than what's going on in the Middle East: http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/our-shared-blame-for-the-shooting-in-san-bernardino?mbid=nl_151204_Daily&CNDID=29026035&spMailingID=8317684&spUserID=NTY4MjIzMzY3MjgS1&spJobID=820502578&spReportId=ODIwNTAyNTc4S0

As a matter of fact, our efforts to prevent mass attacks by Islamic radicals in this country have been pretty effective. The President today said that the country will not be terrorized by Daesh and I think that we have significant advantages in our favor to prevent them from terrorizing us. http://news.yahoo.com/obama-insists-us-not-terrorized-hails-california-attackers-160119910.html

The problem in America, however, is that we've been terrorizing ourselves to a much greater degree than Daesh ever will.

Perhaps you're overstating the potential for Islamic terrorist attacks in this country. After all our best defense against those kind of incidents from happening has always been our own national cohesiveness and unity, not to mention the vigilance of law enforcement. More effective in protecting us than dropping our bombs on far off dirt piles, that's for sure. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/16/isis-bombs-hostage-syria-islamic-state-paris-attacks

And take a look at this map, notice anything about it?



How far is it spreading and to where? Apparently, they seem limited to destabilized regions of the Middle East. And let's not forget about who and what were responsible for destabilizing governments and societies in that part of the world where Daesh is currently filling the vacuum. I know that you're worried about Daesh establishing a nation-state in the affected regions. I'm not. There's a multinational coalition at work right now at work preventing that from happening.

So let's not ignore the 90% of mostly white, mostly anti-government, mostly right wing killers who have been inflicting carnage on American streets, shall we? Rather than focusing on outliers, I'd rather we focus on the conditions in this country that create own forms of radicalization. After all, what we do to ourselves greatly outweigh the threats from foreign sources.



So let's not be distracted the preponderance of Americans mass killing each other, shall we?

http://www.thenation.com/article/why-speculation-about-the-san-bernardino-shooters-is-a-dangerous-distraction/