04-26-2017, 04:58 PM
(04-26-2017, 04:46 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: Those were exactly my thoughts: Even if we knock out ISIS, the Middle East will continue to just be a vacuum for terrorism.
Like you said, we need to put an infrastructure and education in place (as well as an economy, which is pretty much included in infrastructure) to give them something to turn to other than extremism.
With nothing else going on, why WOULDN'T they turn to terrorism?
A lot of violent organizations are often the direct result of a group of people being in situations where they are offered fewer alternatives, or none at all. The same is true for gangs in inner cities, cartels in Latin America, pirates in Somalia, you name it. Groups like this form because they feel they have no alternative and so they band together to make things better for themselves. They recruit from people that feel like themselves, that they know are on the outside looking in, because they often have a chip on their shoulder that can be exploited. They give them something to be proud of, membership in a group that is doing something, and that gives them the confidence they need to to actually act on that chip.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
