TooMany Names AlreadyTaken wrote:It was ISIS, the world needs to be quicker in their extermination of ISIS or we will all end up like this.
I admire your zeal but let's look at this logically.I do agree ISIS is a problem however there a lot of things to consider:
First off, sleeper agents. We do not know who they are, where they are or when they still strike. This is actually the core aspect of terrorism, not the bombs or the shooting but the fact that we do not know when/if/where it will happen. This uncertainty makes us fearful and does the job of terrorism for the terroist. Then when these sleeper agents do act, it just reinforces the fear. The scary truth is, it's not just people of Arbian or Middle Eastern descent doing the attacks. There are white, black, asian and polyneisan members of ISIS.
Secondly, we need to address the region ISIS originated from: Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. All these places have or had at one point a ruthless controlling dictator which kept most extremist under control, when western society moved in and uplifted ****** and Gaddafi, it gave these extremist more pull, similar to how ****** rose to power after WW1 and the decline of the Duestchemark. So more involment in the Middle East needs to be taken carefully or we may create something even worse than what is there already.
Thirdly, their recruitment campaign. Has anyone seen it? It is targeted to young men who wish to live a "Rambo" life style. Now most people would just laugh this off, but an impressionable 13 year old that has been playing CoD 24/7 would want that kind of life. Hell at one point the US Army use dto use Video Games as a recruitment tool and when I served between 2009-2011, most of the young guys I served with realized that it wasn't like CoD.
Finally, I know you didn't say this but a lot of people need to undersrand this: Not all Muslims are extremist or terroists. Hell, these extremist don't even follow the true teachings of Muhammad or the Qu'ran. It is actually a peaceful religion with warnings against war. So don't blame the Muslims, blame the idiots who think they are Muslims but are just extremist.
So while I do agree something needs to be done to stop them, however we need to be cautious about this. Not to mention the World itself is on the tipping egde of a knife, one mistake but any world leader and we have another World War on our hands.
Edit: The two censored names are the old dictator of Iraq and the fuhere of Germany from 1930s onwards. Their names are censored on these forums.