Dies to Removal

It's interesting what ISIS is trying to do here. In the past we had the Taliban, a large group in control of a large territory that undoubtedly did bad things, but kept those bad things confined to their territory and were therefore largely ignored by the rest of the world. Contrast that with Al-Qaeda, a shadowy organization with no home of their own that specialized in killing people abroad. Apparently ISIS thinks they can get away with doing both at once. Seems crazy since France's response to the terrorist attack has a very concrete target... so they bomb the shit out of ISIS (to the surprise of no one).

The fact that it seems so crazy has me wondering at ISIS's actual motivations here. Shooting up Paris and bombing a Russian plane has pretty obvious consequences. Is it a question of economics somehow? Are they banking on no one else wanting the land they currently occupy? Do they think the West's response will allow them to recruit even more effectively abroad? Surely they can't consider these small acts of terrorism as the endgame.

Game over. Terrorists win.

Damn kids.

War torn is for sure a big factor, but poverty is at least as big. You're right that it's more like "death is just something that happens in war torn/impoverished places", so it's not just that contintent. Africa just happens to have both of those things in spades and, more importantly, both of those things are the first things that come to people's minds when you say "Africa". Makes it tough to make people care when your average North American wonders why Africans don't just move somewhere nicer.

If anything, World Vision is partly to blame for that one. In most people's minds, death is just something that happens in Africa.

Sounds good. Doesn't solve the problem of kids watching TV though...

Anyway, it's a tough thing for governments to deal with. Canada and even the US have a bunch of home-grown terrorists, though maybe not as many as Australia apparently has. Threatening sanctions is cool and all, but I think it's probably tough to stop terrorism in any reasonable time frame, and perhaps even harder to measure success.

The way some of these Muslims are raised. There are some that have jews kill charecters in their cartoons, teach youngsters that jews eat children and teach small children to aspire to kill people.

Be tough on terrorism thats fine, but also be tough on the root cause of terrorism.

If you were the leader of a powerful western nation, how would you deal with that root cause?

Terrosrism and violence is bad, but does anyone look at the root cause instead of saying we condemn this for the 54254125512654725 time.

What is the root cause, in your opinion?

So the solution is more guns?