2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: And Bernie Sanders compared a neighborhood to a 3rd World Country. [View all]jtuck004
(15,882 posts)everyone, just them. Just because they are delusional and believe in magic religious stuff doesn't mean they aren't competent to know - and be fully aware - that they are committing murder. They stand trial, and the court says they do, anyway.
Selfish little bullies. They aren't trying to make anything better or build anything - they are just killers and liars.
Btw - most of the leaders of the international "terrorist" orgs are very well off. They have degrees, are world travelers, speak several languages, and have ready access to hundreds of millions of dollars in mostly oil money.
Just like us, they try to foment dissent amongst people who have less, and just like us they send larger numbers of people who have less money and education.
But when you look into the meat of the orgs, and the backgrounds of those who have launched successful attacks on US soil, they are college educated, have money, have homes, have family, and want a world war that brings the apocalypse. In their definition that means they must mostly be wiped out by us in battle, so they must commit attacks that enrage us to a blind fury. The two in California who did that just walked away from their kid, their lives. They had everything we say is important. They turned their backs on it and walked toward something else.
There is nothing you can offer such true believers. Education might work over the long term. A big battle will do more to radicalize people than almost anything we do, and could pit more of the world against us. A series of smaller battles does the same thing over time, but lets us not start world war last.
Then again, that's just killing time until someone figures out how to create a biological attack that wipes out a few million people, and we dust off the nukes.
That's what they want. For this to be over, so their Caliphate can rule, if I understand their premise. Almost worse than the Evilhair guy running for pres here...
But, ymmv.