(April 7, 2016 at 9:53 pm)Mudhammam Wrote:(April 7, 2016 at 4:19 pm)abaris Wrote: Which usually achieves quite the opposite of what your goal is. If someone were to bomb my family and friends to smitherins, to call them collaterals, I would consider joining the enemy of my enemy also. It's a first class PR strategy, just like running a recruitment office for ISIS or any other given group fighting the west.How high is the conversion rate? We actually do a lot to minimize collatoral damage and when that does tragically occur, we try to do something for the family and explain to them our intention. Do our enemies do that? Nope.
I don't think a State Department press release is much consolation to the aggrieved, nor do I think we're exporting much to Syria besides high explosive ... precious little food or other aid. And when we follow that up with making loud noises about barring Muslim refugees, it's a much louder message than any delivered from a lectern to a room full of reporters.
