As we saw after 9/11 when George Bush disgraced those were lost in the attack, a war was started against Iraq even though they had nothing to do with it. The so-called war has continued to the present day although Democrats and Republicans have said this is something different from what Bush started even when there is not one iota of difference.
The result has been ongoing reprisal attacks around the world (e.g. Paris, Brussels, etc) and the ongoing failure, despite its massive bravado and claims of efficacy, of the NSA to detect a single one of them.
It's remarkable how glib American TV can be in calling these reprisals terror attacks while at the same time forgiving everything Americans and others do to the Muslims of the Middle East. Those are good and righteous whereas any reprisal attack is terror and is bad. The logic is inescapable, isn't it.
Right now the media sluts are doing exactly as they have done with any previous engagement and are calling to devastate the Muslims. The West must have revenge. Not one of them asks if this has ever worked before or what results came when this was done before (i.e. too many times to count).
For all the world, the mass-press journos sound like a drum circle of incompetent drummers who seek to conceal their incompetence with their numbers. As it happens, they're remarkable good at doing that and it's, in a small way, refreshing to know they're at least good at doing something, even if it is only make excuses for themselves.
Now, with the same predictable monotony as always, they do it again and the only thing we know for sure comes from it is ... more reprisal attacks.
The result has been ongoing reprisal attacks around the world (e.g. Paris, Brussels, etc) and the ongoing failure, despite its massive bravado and claims of efficacy, of the NSA to detect a single one of them.
It's remarkable how glib American TV can be in calling these reprisals terror attacks while at the same time forgiving everything Americans and others do to the Muslims of the Middle East. Those are good and righteous whereas any reprisal attack is terror and is bad. The logic is inescapable, isn't it.
Right now the media sluts are doing exactly as they have done with any previous engagement and are calling to devastate the Muslims. The West must have revenge. Not one of them asks if this has ever worked before or what results came when this was done before (i.e. too many times to count).
For all the world, the mass-press journos sound like a drum circle of incompetent drummers who seek to conceal their incompetence with their numbers. As it happens, they're remarkable good at doing that and it's, in a small way, refreshing to know they're at least good at doing something, even if it is only make excuses for themselves.
Now, with the same predictable monotony as always, they do it again and the only thing we know for sure comes from it is ... more reprisal attacks.
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The irony. Is that Europe is experiencing terror that for now we in the U.S. do not often experience. The pundits are constantly concerned about when the next radicalized ISIS attack may occur here.
What is ignored by the US politicians, media and public is the terror that occurs regularly from non Muslim ISIS terrorists. It is the domestic terror amoung us. In the US, terror very often comes from gangs, police and young males. They prey on young children, church goers, students and fellow workers. We grieve over each of the incidents but move right on to the next incident.
The media, public and politicians say, 'Gee it is too bad that elementary school children are slaughtered'. However, there is no mention of sending patrols throughout suburban areas to ferret out the next mass killer. No walls can be built to avoid the terror amoung us. There seem to be no real solutions for now to a terror much larger than ISIS in the US. The domestic terror problem in America unique to this generation.
So, will we continue to spend precious lives and dollars abroad or spend those lives and dollars to fight the terror here? The terror that makes us fear our police, our neighbors, our banker, our insurance agent, our health provider. The terror that makes us run for guns and lawyers.
There was a phrase toward the end of the Vietnam War - 'Bring the war home'. It appears we succeeded. Now how do we end it?
By ending these lethal adventures overseas and bringing the people home, significantly reducing the costs of the military, and addressing specifically the problems on the home front rather than playing the Plastic Savior to perennially deadly effect.
Actually, domestic terrorism is not unique to America and I refer to Baader Meinhof (i.e. Red Brigade or Red Faction) and domestic terrorism within Germany. I'm not sure if it was they who were responsible for the murders of the athletes at the Munich Olympic Games.
The situation wasn't precisely domestic insofar as Baader-Meinhof was said to have been getting some financing from STASI in East Germany but I have not researched that.
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