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Originally Posted by fatboy
@SwamP-ThinG - by "you" do you mean me or do you mean "the US"? I only ask because, although it's quite clear that I haven't offered up any solutions (save agreeing with Startup), your post seems to imply that I have.
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Youīre the one who brought up invading countries who canīt capture the terrorists, as a solution. Are you backing down?
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And if I read you right, your solution is to prevent terrorists from entering your country. I would have to agree that this is a valid solution as well. Still, I can't help wondering about what a monumental endeavor this would be given the volume of trade into and out of this country.
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You mean a more monumental task than a full invasion and ocupation of an entire nation?
Wich oneīs the biggest task? To plug the holes in your border and spend a few billions doing it, or staging a full scale invasion costing hundreads of billions and thousands of human lives?
Wich taskīs the hardest to achieve, and wich taskīs the costiest of the two?
Seems to me that your president has chosen the hardest path, using a sledgehammer to kill an ant.
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Shouldn't all civilized nations take whatever steps are necessary to eradicate this problem and condemn it with action rather than words? And, if so, what are the limits of these actions, if any?
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Absolutelly! But what steps exactly is the 1 million dollar question, isnīt it?
Iīd go with full cooperation between police forces, and an international organization in charge of it all, just as we are doing in Europe with an European anti-terrorism secretary. The UN and Interpol could handle the task quite well.
There are two ways to prevent terrorism:
Nš1 is preventing the terrorists from reaching their targets, either by arresting them, destroying the organizations, or closing the doors by wich they enter the target nation, i.e the borders..
And Nš2 is removing the very reason why they fight.
Untill now, the US has done the first while contributing to the very existence of the second. Instead of removing the very reason why they fight, you are actually assisting them and giving them further reasons to continue.
You might catch a few operatives, but if you donīt take out the root of evil, another will take his place.
This is pure common sense.
If you have a weed in your garden, do you cut the branches that stand above ground or do you digg and root it out?:indeed: