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6. Too late now. You can't kill millions of people and not expect them

Reply to Helen Borg (Reply #1)

Thu Sep 25, 2014, 02:28 PM

Sep 2014

to seek revenge. I wrote a post in mid-Iraq war about some little kid who just watched his family get slaughtered by American soldiers and somehow making it into MIT, where he learns all about nukes. Even if we escape the current American adventure, which I doubt, something is going to happen to make those that killed that kid's family atone. Bush opened up a can of worms that can never be closed without the can dissolving.

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Major terrorist attack is �inevitable� as Isis fighters return, say EU officials [View all] CJCRANE Sep 2014 OP

How about not getting involved in the first place? Helen Borg Sep 2014 #1

Sure. That always works. TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #2

How many terrorists were on the loose in Iraq before 2003? CJCRANE Sep 2014 #4

How many were in Afghanistan before 9/11? TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #5

Didn't need to bomb them. Intelligence work CJCRANE Sep 2014 #8

Really? If we had a chance to kill the plotters, you're saying we shouldn't have? TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #13

So you bomb the plotters but the hijackers are already in situ... CJCRANE Sep 2014 #15

Blow up the operations--the funding, the plots, the communications--in places TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #18

How can you blow up the funding? CJCRANE Sep 2014 #19

You don't think there's a headquarters of sorts? Master planners who TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #20

Master planners who live in an underground supervillain lair CJCRANE Sep 2014 #21

Why are you pretending there's no central organization to these groups? TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #22

We were talking about 9/11. CJCRANE Sep 2014 #23

ISIS and the Taliban are also military forces CJCRANE Sep 2014 #24

Too late now. You can't kill millions of people and not expect them ballyhoo Sep 2014 #6

+100! n/t 99th_Monkey Sep 2014 #17

Isn't he talking about followers of ISIS who are citizens and went to help and are now coming home jwirr Sep 2014 #7

I'd be ok with either taking their passports christx30 Sep 2014 #9

Exactly. jwirr Sep 2014 #10

The UK was/is considering not letting them back... Helen Borg Sep 2014 #11

I think that's unfair to other countries. CJCRANE Sep 2014 #12

Not sure if they actually doing it or what... Helen Borg Sep 2014 #14

So the other country just treats them christx30 Sep 2014 #16

They haven't assimilated and don't want to TexasMommaWithAHat Sep 2014 #25

But we're fightin' 'em over there! arcane1 Sep 2014 #3

This is a serious problem, to hide one's head in the sand is not going to make it okay. Thinkingabout Sep 2014 #26

Why not arrest all returning "fighters" cosmicone Sep 2014 #27