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tweakabelle -> RE: Another terror attack. Over 100 dead. (7/5/2016 6:46:04 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Aylee
BAGHDAD — As celebrations for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan stretched past midnight into Sunday in central Baghdad, where Iraqis had gathered to eat, shop and just be together, a minivan packed with explosives blew up and killed at least 143 people — the third mass slaughter across three countries in less than a week.
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What is it going to take before we (Western Civilization) actually DO something? I certainly hope the Iraqi's use reprisals. Goodness knows, those in charge of the US Military are too pansy-butted to do so.
As LeMay said, "If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting."
It is sad to note that not everyone has realised that there is no miitary solution to the problems besetting the Middle East.
Even sadder is the OP's inability to learn the lessons of the past decade or two.
Has the OP forgotten that it was Western military interventions (of the precise type the OP is demanding more of,) that destabilised Iraq to begin with?
Has the OP forgotten that it was Bush and Blair and their cronies in the so-called 'coalition of the willing' who designed and executed the disaster that led directly to the establishment of IS in the first place?
Is the OP blind to the fact that Iraq and the region desperately need less military action not more?
Doesn't the OP realise that the sentiments of the war monger LeMay whom she quotes approvingly are precisely the same as Osama Bin Laden's when he implemented the horrors of 9/11?
If there is one thing to be learnt about the ME surely it is that the dictum "If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting." doesn't work in the ME. If in any doubt check out the Israelis who have been happily butchering the Palestinians for over half a century now with out any reduction in the level of opposition to their aggression from the indigenous population. In the ME, if you kill enough of them, their relatives and their progeny will return for round two, or round three or as many rounds as are necessary. Every time one is killed, a few more are created.
Doubling down on the very strategies that were central in creating the problem is never the way to solving the problem. It is an insane approach. The only route to peace stability and progress in the ME is through political strategies, through involving the local populations in decision making and separating the extremists from their support base, not through the West imposing military interventions that only lead to disaster after disaster, as the historical record shows.
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