11-24-2015, 08:24 PM
(11-24-2015, 07:42 PM)Devils Advocate Wrote: Where you getting 3 million from?
First number that popped up on Google was 2.8 million. But that doea not matter. My point was to nail down Lucy's opinion on what percentage of then qualify as "radical" undre his definition.
(11-24-2015, 07:42 PM)Devils Advocate Wrote: How many of those are radicals?
5%?
1%?
Somewhere between?
More?
5% of 1.6B is more than 75M.
Where do you come up with the 5% number?
And 75 million is about the population of California and Texas combined.
Do you think Texas and California could take over the world, or even the United States?
Plus you have to consider that most of the Muslim countries are extremely poor. Indonesia, Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh are home to more than 40% of the worlds Muslim population. The combined GDP of those four countries (3.3 trillion) is far less than the GDP of just Texas and California combined (4.1 trillion)
(11-24-2015, 07:42 PM)Devils Advocate Wrote: But let's get real here. There's a terrible problem in the world that won't just go away by ignoring it.
Actually that is the only way it will go away. First of all Muslims are much more interested in killing each other than killing any of us. Second of all military intervention by the United States just makes it worse.
Remember when Communism was the big bad boogey man that was going to take over the United States? We tried military action against it, but that failed. When we did nothing it just eventually collapsed because of its own flaws. That is the only way to deal with radical Islam. Let them kill each other until they finally give up or realize that their goals are not realistic. Us taking military action just gives them more reason to hate us.
They don't have the resources to take over the world or even get close to attacking the United States. All we need to do is concentrate on our international and domestic intelligence to protect us as well as possible from individual "lone wolves", and let the fire of radical Islam burn itself out.
