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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]How about being nervous for everything? Marathon? Workplace? Gay nightclub? Airport transit? Foreign business? Police couple in front of child at home? How about this administration get back in the business of a war on terror? [/quote]

ISIS's strategy is to make people be nervous for everything. Conservatives' strategy is the same. It is exceedingly strange that this poster believes that an attack in Bengladesh could have been stopped by Obama. 
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You don't ever allow the war to come to your soil[/quote]

I am unaware of any successful ISIS attacks in the USA.

I know there have been several lone wolf attacks by people pledging allegiance to ISIS, but none with any actual operational support or conspiracy by organized terror. [/quote]

That is Isis though.  To think it is a traditional war fighting machine is not to acknowledge it as a disrupter--it is the individuals who succumb to the propaganda and act on their own as much as those who join the core hierarchy. What difference does it make--these "lone wolfs' are acting "in the name of".  Same in Bangladesh. Same in Turkey. Those guys were from Russia. Acting "in the name of".[/quote]

It goes to scale. The guy shooting up a nightclub in the name of ISIS is no different than the guy shooting up a movie theater in Colorado or a school in Connecticut. The need to categorize it as "terror" versus, what, a crime, is so incredibly stupid, as is the puerile semantic argument about "radical Islam." Arguing about the distinction and labels is a red herring.

To my mind, a "terror attack" involves a level of sophistication and coordination far more destructive than one guy with automatic weapon in a crowded nightclub. It's 9/11. It's coordinated attacks in Paris.  It's the proverbial dirty bomb. It's literally something that couldn't have happened without training, money and conspiracy.[/quote]

Isis is not al Qaeda. It is a disruptive model, even to terror. That's why none of the established terror groups can stand it. If we fight new models with old tactics, we will suffer terrible losses until we adapt.  To fight the spread of Isis in America and Europe from citizens of those places, look at the fist people their ideology has reached and converted and counter act that through propaganda, surveillance, outreach etc. To fight them at their core, we need a strategy for Syria, Iraq that makes sense--what is the end goal? To fight splinter groups, we need a strategy for N. Africa and Asia.  Theme here: we need a strategy.[/quote]

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