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Originally Posted by glatt
We are losing the war or terror. There are more terrorists today than there were 5 years ago, and we created them with our wars.
Terrorism is hatred. You can't fight hatred with bombs. It's more complicated than that.
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Terrorism is *caused* by hatred; the two are not identical. I suspect the hatred can't be fought; it's an emotion, and emotions are the responsibilty of the people having them.
We didn't "create terrorists with our wars". (That's blaming the victim.) The terrorists existed before the wars. The terrorists *started* the wars. Our sin in their eyes is that we didn't recognize the error of our ways and convert to Islam. There's no form of "being nice" or "tolerant" or "not racist" that will appease them; there's only "destroy Israel and impose Sharia law world-wide"; that's their clearly stated objective.
Four airliners weren't hijacked five years ago today because we "failed to be nice enough". And we've not avoided more of the same by "learning to be nice". Or tolerant. Or nuanced.