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Monday, November 16, 2015

Miscellany: 11/16/15

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(Libertarian Shaman). Top 5 lessons we had better learn from the Paris tragedy:
1. Killing innocents with drones is linked to killing innocents with suicide bombers.
2. We must change our interventionist foreign policy - the one where we arm them; we bomb them; they kill us.
3. The problem is not God or even any one religion, but the political people who claim to speak for God (we have some, too).
4. There is no security, and further giving up our liberties in the futile effort to gain it will only end in no freedom or safety.
5. Love is hard; hate is easy - choose love...and wisdom. Namaste.
Don't be a retard. The Yazidis never bombed or threatened ISIS. ISIS has its own fanatical ideology. Islam historically spread by conquest. I am not a neocon, and I don't support interventionist policy. These guys are actively recruiting Western Muslim malcontents to attack their fellow innocent citizens.
 From a review of the best book on terrorism. Doubt if many here will read it; only those who want to face the truth:Robert A. Pape and James K. Feldman have examined every suicide terrorist attack worldwide from 1980 to 2009, and the insights they have gleaned from that data fundamentally challenge how we understand the root causes of terrorist campaigns today—and reveal why the War on Terror has been ultimately counterproductive. Through a close analysis of suicide campaigns by Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, Israel, Chechnya, and Sri Lanka, the authors provide powerful new evidence that, contrary to popular and dangerously mistaken belief, only a tiny minority of these attacks are motivated solely by religion. Instead, the root cause is foreign military occupation, which triggers secular and religious people alike to carry out suicide attacks.
Cutting the Fuse calls for new, effective solutions that America and its allies can sustain for decades, relying less on ground troops in Muslim countries and more on offshore, over-the-horizon military forces along with political and economic strategies that empower local communities to stop terrorists in their midst.
The OP seems to be spamming his own post with the same 3 posts. Look, we should not expect that hostilities are based on authentic factually-based grievances subject to the rules of evidence; isolated incidents of intolerance towards Muslims in the West are disproportionately exaggerated; atrocities are blamed on Western scapegoats; etc. Suicide attacks on civilians are almost exclusively Muslim-based.

(Lew Rockwell). Neocon-in-chief Bill Kristol wants 50,000 US soldiers to destroy ISIS. Only another few billion. But when has the WWII-style US military ever beaten guerrillas? See Bill Lind. The answer is: Never. There is only one solution to ISIS and similar groups: get out of all Moslem countries. No more bombing, no more drones, no more troops, no more Special Ops, no more CIA, no more foreign aid, no more sanctions, no more coups, no more anything. Leave them alone!
I don't have a problem with pursuing a non-interventionist policy; I just feel that calling it a "solution" is delusional. It's as if you believe that religious zealots feel honor-bound by the non-aggression principle. Tell me, when ISIS tried to liquidate the Yazidis, were they responding to Yazidi atrocities?

(Reason). U.S. refugees don't become terrorists.
Except the Boston marathon. You people are idiots...
Retard OP didn't read the article: "Note: Several commenters suggested Tamerlan and Dzhokar Tsarnaev, who committed the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, were refugees. Strictly speaking, they were the children of asylees. As Bloomberg News explained the two were given “derivative asylum status” and didn’t come through the refugee admissions program. "

(Reason). Will France's war on terror play out any differently from America's?
I wonder what would of happened if we just played isolationist and let Japan do whatever they wanted after they attacked us. France has every right to attack ISIS.
The moron buys into US propaganda about Pearl Harbor, as if America had not been intervening in Asia. Why was much of the American fleet in the Pacific based in Pearl Harbor vs. the West Coast? The fact of the matter is the US had engaged in economic aggression, hoping to trigger a response from an Axis Power alliance to justify entry into the Western front. One quote often attributed to Bastiat is ""if goods don t cross borders, armies will",

(Rand Paul). The time has come to stop terrorists from walking in our front door. The Boston Marathon bombers were refugees, and numerous refugees from Iraq, including some living in my hometown, have attempted to commit terrorist attacks. The terrorist attacks in Paris underscore this concern that I have been working to address for the past several years. My bill will press pause on new refugee entrants from high-risk countries until stringent new screening procedures are in place.
Rand, you're beginning to piss off principled pro-liberty conservatives like me with this neocon bullshit. You don't seem to recognize here the distinction between political asylum and refugees (i.e., the Boston Marathon).

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