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Originally posted by ARTelevision
I'd submit, however that what we are experiencing today is an organized terrorism and not simply personal and somewhat random acts. When a pattern of organization is revealed, it can be attacked and destroyed according to traditional methods, strategy, and tactics of warfare. Destroying the funding apparatus, the command and control apparatus, and the organizational structure of an inimical group is within the realm of probability here. If this is so, is it worth doing?
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Art,
There is a Taoist principle that one extreme makes way for another. When you swing the pendulum one direction, it swings back the other way just as hard. In other words, extremism in defense of good creates extremism in defense of evil.
I believe that is what the current administration is doing. In pursuit of what they see to be good goals, we are invading other countries, killing civilians, torturing prisoners, jailing people indefinitely without charges, and hurting our reputation with our former allies. I believe our actions in the USA are setting the stage for much larger acts of terrorism in the future. My greatest fear is nuclear terrorism. Between North Korea, Iran, the disintegration of russia and the aggression of Israel, I think a nuclear attack in our lifetime is a real possibility.
I don't think an ideology can be uprooted by force. Was Judaism wiped out by the Inquisition, or World War 2? No, in each case it the philosophies were preserved, and the traditions came back even stronger. I fear that is what we are doing with radical islam.