Thread: Why Terrorism Exists

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

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.

Direct insults concerning my level of knowledge tend to stir up at least a little bit of my sarcasm.

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

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.

No need to get upset. I just tried to steer you toward talking about the issues and not what bothers you about me personally. The latter will only bring out my sarcasm. The peace offering still stands.

The terrorists are far more hateful than the KKK (which shows just how incredibly serious of a situation we are dealing with), but that has a lot to do with the fact that so much of the Middle East now is a much worse Hell hole than Mississippi and Alabama were in the 20th century. The idea is to move toward making the Middle East not such a Hell hole by setting in motion democracies in the direction of being centers of prosperity and education that can become strong enough to reshape the rest of the Middle East. Through that process, the terrorism breeding climate clears up a great deal. In the mean time, we suck terrorist minded nut cases into our vacuum so there will be far fewer than otherwise. How much progress have we made already? The surge seems to have done a lot of good. We recently had a week of no U.S. casualties, and there are many places in Iraq that are far safer than before and where the citizens have done a lot to turn against the terrorists. It looks like good progress at this point. But it will be probably another generation before we start really seeing the kind of progress I am talking about.