Islam in Europe: perception and reality

[Thumpalumpacus]

Yeah, but you can frame that argument, hang it over your bed and feel good about it. It doesn't matter. For you to constantly repeat it either points to a complete inability to walk in the shoes of the ones being on the receiving end or to a complete unwillingness to do so.

It's something for the garbage bin of reality.

Actually, it does matter, but I wouldn't expect you to see it that way in your utter moral confusion.

A strategy that does not take into account the enemy's viewpoint is oftentimes worse than useless. Look into the Battle of Britain, or the Allied bombing of Germany, to see how bombing can actually be used to strengthen enemy morale. Modern weapons, in an urban environment, don't produce much better results ... and even when they do they still piss the targets off. And another thing -- in that culture, the unwillingness to come to grips directly, as we have by resorting to drones, engenders a contempt that is used as a recruiting tool as well.