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Originally Posted by Words
Dress,
What I'm getting at is that the West is treating the symptoms of the disease called terrorism not the cause. Which of course, it will never do because as someone has already pointed out, right at the center - amongst other things - you find the situation in Israel. And so the attacks continue.
I don't approve of suicide attacks. Hell, I don't approve of violence in any form. But I do understand, having lived amongst people who literally have nothing to live for, why they happen.
Words
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I want to thank you for pointing this out. Too rarely do people try to think about this issue from the opposing forces side. When I responded to you yesterday I was coming from a place of having done a lot of research and then spent a lot of time (on my bike) thinking thoughts along these lines: "if I had to go up against the most nightmarishly lethal fighting machine the world has yet seen, what would *I* do". I've also done a lot of thinking along the lines of "if I were the leader of a Western nation, faced with a threat like that posed by Al Qaeda or Hamas what would *I* do".
If we're going to be effective at shaping policy, we have to be willing to see the world as it looks from both the power centers and from places like Gaza and NOT how we would *prefer* the world to look.
Cheers
Aj
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