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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima]You can't bomb and kill enough jihadists to stop terror. You can kill as many al Qaeda and ISIS members, and that will just birth new ones and new groups. Unless the root causes are analyzed and solutions provided for them, there will always be another insurgency. You can't bomb them into submission
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I disagree that we need to analyze and solve the root problems, if by that you mean things like poverty and discontent with autocracy. [b]Terrorism still thrives in places like the UK and France where there is no poverty, and human rights [/b]are as well respected as anywhere.

The fact is that the jihadists were controlled very effectively for many decades by the likes of Assad. What you need to control jihadists is a strong state with a strong intelligence service and army. That may mean supporting someone whose approach to human rights is very different from our own. But we manage to do that in Saudi, Egypt etc. without complaint.  The fact is we should never have brought down Saddam, and we should never have brought down Gaddafi, and we should never have supported the opponents of Assad. [/quote]

Unfortuately, Muslims in France and the UK would not share that view.  Discrimantion against Muslims in places like France and Belgium is well known!  And lets be honest, at least 2 of the Paris attackers were born IN FRANCE and at least 2 were born IN BELGIUM.  These were folks who were turned radical by the conditions and the treatment of Muslims in the countries that they were born in.

I 100% agree with your second paragraph.  Those guys are/were despots for a reason!  They were able to keep the different factions relatively united in hatred against them.  Their iron fisted rule was inconsistent with our ideas of democracy and governance but our ideas do not work everywhere. [/quote]

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