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Originally Posted by tw
Cannot be done. History demonstrates you cannot stop the problem by killing more people, embargoing their supplies, restricting their actions, or forcing a new government upon them.
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Worked on Carthage. Troy, too. Also Germany after WWII. The American South. Examples abound.
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All those solutions only make more enemies. Problem must be identified and its root cause must be eliminated.
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And if the root cause is simply that they like killing Westerners? That they find our very infidel existence intolerable?
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Others who don't have the stigma of being ugly Americans.
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Or ugly Brits or ugly Spaniards or...
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Before 1 Aug 1990, America was not a target of Islamic fundamentals. What changed?
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Nothing, that's a false premise; Islamic fundamentalists used to take (and kill) hostages rather than blow people up.