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1. And what is the solution? More bombs? Send in our armed services?

Reply to CJCRANE (Original post)

Tue Jun 14, 2016, 05:28 AM

Jun 2016

Sending as many weapons as our arms dealers have into the region hasn't helped, if anything provided more death. What is the solution? I truly don't know the answer. Yes, people are being harmed, persecuted, killed, and I don't have one idea as to how to "fix" things for people in another region that is in such mayhem? I don't think our leaders do either.

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ISIS and the rebels are wiping out gay people in the ME [View all] CJCRANE Jun 2016 OP

And what is the solution? More bombs? Send in our armed services? glowing Jun 2016 #1

Do what we did to South Africa Elmergantry Jun 2016 #2

Are you or the rest of the world ready to accept a boycott of OPEC? glowing Jun 2016 #9

we now have plenty of oil due to fracking Elmergantry Jun 2016 #12

But that's not how the market works, and you know that! glowing Jun 2016 #13

Why not, you sound ready to accept the gendocide of LGBT you are arguing that nothing Bluenorthwest Jun 2016 #15

Because our congress is bought! If it weren't for their sponsors, glowing Jun 2016 #17

How about quit arming the various rebel groups and the regimes that share their ideology? CJCRANE Jun 2016 #3

I did mention that. But I'm sure if we didn't sell them on the front end, they could get them on a glowing Jun 2016 #6

liberals are arming them? lame54 Jun 2016 #14

I know what the solution isn't. Quantess Jun 2016 #4

Who does that? Am I going to say 1.4 billion practicing Muslims are extremist terrorists? No. glowing Jun 2016 #7

My point is that many liberals Quantess Jun 2016 #11

So too many liberals are being 'politically correct'? "Trump pans ‘political correctness’ pampango Jun 2016 #20

Yes. Quantess Jun 2016 #22

Congratulation. Trump and the NRA agree with you. pampango Jun 2016 #23

Like, what you just did. Quantess Jun 2016 #16

So, disavow all Muslims en masse? That's the solution? glowing Jun 2016 #19

Okay, this is a misunderstanding. Quantess Jun 2016 #21

Solution? Simple: BAN THEIR GUNZZZ!!!!!! jack_krass Jun 2016 #24

I'm wondering if the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were planned. JonathanRackham Jun 2016 #5

The problem now is that the ideology is spreading like wildfire. We can no longer just sit back CJCRANE Jun 2016 #8

It's clashes of ideology and culture. JonathanRackham Jun 2016 #10

Sigh.... Fumesucker Jun 2016 #18