Thread: Why Terrorism Exists

Originally Posted by Universal Mind

Oh, you must have read my entire post. That short quote was all I said, and you even paraphrased it correctly. Now let's try to have this discussion without insulting each other personally or even talking about each other at all, moderator.

Jesus. So personal. Sorry you felt my post to be such an attack on you, UM. The reason I paraphrased what I did was because I felt that little mockery of what I said was really childish, and unwarranted.

Originally Posted by Universal Mind

I didn't say it could be completely stamped out. Read again. I said it could be taken down to a much lower level, just like racism in America has been taken down to a level where it does not require that the National Guard escort black people to their college classes, black people are required to sit in the backs of buses, interracial couples are guaranteed to be violently attacked if they hold hands in public, and there are separate bathrooms for blacks. I also said that the idea is that Iraq and Afghanistan will eventually be at a point where they can handle the remaining and much smaller levels themselves. That sort of thing can happen when you are dealing with a finite supply of terrorists and a diminishing terrorist breeding social climate.

The major difference is the hatred that these Islamic extremists employ is much deeper than that of the white supremists of the old days. How many suicide murders do you know of that took place in the KKK? How many terrorists are left? How many terrorists are left around the globe? How fast are the Iraqi's stepping up to take control of their region? How well are they doing on their benchmarks? These are all rhetorical questions, of course. If you'd like to answer them, go ahead. But, honestly, I regret getting re-involved because I doubt this conversation will take us anywhere but to where I, personally, would not like to go, judging by the above.

I do wonder, though, how you can look at the number of terrorists as finite, when a great many of the terrorists we shall face, in the future, most likely haven't even been born yet. Aside from that particular point, just forget I even said anything.