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Hyroglyphx
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Message 329 of 508 (773307)
11-29-2015 5:33 AM
Reply to: Message 14 by Percy
11-14-2015 7:51 AM


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How do we make this stop? Is this like 1940, when it became apparent that peaceful measures had failed and that putting the dictator back in his box would be a formidable challenge? Are we again a year or two late in keeping local troubles from blossoming into a major threat to world peace and stability?
I doubt it will stop anytime soon. Because the problem is circular, it just seems to be feeding into itself. Unless droves of moderate Muslims are willing to keep militants one's in check, this will go down as a battle of attrition that could last for hundreds of years.

"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it" -- Thomas Paine

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Hyroglyphx
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Message 370 of 508 (773499)
12-02-2015 7:54 PM
Reply to: Message 352 by dronestar
12-01-2015 12:16 PM


Sayeth a citizen of Britain whose repeated support of war-criminal Tony Blair had caused the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq which caused up to a million innocent civilian deaths. Tony Blair still walks the streets of London freely, doesn't he? To sociopathic Brits, it's as if Tony swatted a few gnats, and nothing worse.
Yep, THEY hold life cheap.
This banter reminds me a lot of the Sam Harris/Ben Affleck spat on Bill Maher, where essentially voices from the Left are arguing over who is more morally repugnant, the Salafist extremists or the Western forces willing to incur collateral damages in order to strike the Salafists.
You're Ben Affleck in this instance

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