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ICYMI: this is precisely what most Americans fear - The Jihadi mindset.

This man was a Lebanese immigrant who was welcomed with open arms by America in a community of his peers to live the American dream. He was a naturalized citizen with a job, a home, and a future in a nice community. He had an ex-wife and children. He was just 41 and had decades of a good life ahead of him YET he opted to drive a truck into a Jewish preschool with the intention of killing innocent American children because they were presumably Jewish in retaliation for the deaths of his brothers, a niece, and a nephew living a world away in Lebanon.

Imagine any American feeling so enraged by the death of far-flung relatives that they would even contemplate such a thing. It’s just not a thing for most of us…but it is a very real thing for a subset of people with the Jihadi mindset.

Whether they were radicalized or “born this way” and inculcated since youth into a religious mindset that believes in such a hatred that would prompt you to throw away your life and leave your (ex) wife and kids behind is so foreign to the way Westerners think. And here we are…

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That’s what Americans are afraid of. We’ve always worried about it, and now that the powder keg in the Middle East is once again on fire, we are even more concerned…particularly since our global world and immigration system made our melting pot simmer with this exotic mix of a mindset.[/quote]

I totally agree. This is the number 1 reason we should leave the middle east alone. Let them fight each other. Do not intervene, do not let in a lot of immigrants. The worldview is too different and there is no amount of intervention that will stamp it out. [/quote]

Not an option. We need the oil and gas.[/quote]

We don't "need" it if we had any capacity to plan.  And those middle eastern countries similarly need export markets for their oil. That is pretty much all they have to offer. [/quote]

Let’s analogize control of oil and gas production to “Ticket to Ride”, a fairly easy-to-learn strategy game.  The lesson you’ll eventually discover is that if you only make moves to advance your strategy, you’ll likely lose.  To begin, your opponent will easily see what moves you’re making and move to block you!   This means that you need to also play to obstruct your opponent from advancing their strategy.  You do this by deducing which train routes they are trying to complete based on their moves so far and then claiming the tracks they’d need to complete said routes, even if you don’t need them.  You also need to make plays to obfuscate your true objectives.  If a fascinating game to play.

Recent American moves in Venezuela and Iran seem designed to block China from accessing cheap oil.  China is building up wind / solar/ hydro not because it’s a friendly, environmentally conscious actor, but because it’s terribly exposed to oil and gas and needs alternatives.  However, wind/solar/hydro won’t propel its military assets.  [/quote]

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