RE: World war 3
September 18, 2014 at 10:38 am
(This post was last modified: September 18, 2014 at 10:43 am by Anomalocaris.)
You want to stop ISIS? Find out what would make the street Muslim think modern secular values and capitalistic economics will on the whole, all things considered, help them and their societies gain cohesion, comparative wealth, status, and above all influence in the world, rather than some nefarious tool that they, through experience, think would mainly avail the west in further divide and humiliate them, and can not help them adequately, while reducing their ability to cope with the means they do have at hand.
It is a matter of fact that for every western hostage killed, in their territory, I might add, the west kills hundred if not thousands of Muslims, in Muslim territory, directly. It is this asymmetry that highlights why they resort to disparate radical measures.
When a society is weak and backwards, and experience lengthy periods of humiliations and defeat in contest by ordinary means, it will eventually find some unexpected and seemingly radical means of striking back.
When seen in proper perspective, these radical means of retaliation are usually ineffective. Otherwise they would not have become the last resort for the defeated, but would have been the fIrst resort for everyone. But they are usually shocking and spectacular to the impressionable.
It is a matter of fact that for every western hostage killed, in their territory, I might add, the west kills hundred if not thousands of Muslims, in Muslim territory, directly. It is this asymmetry that highlights why they resort to disparate radical measures.
When a society is weak and backwards, and experience lengthy periods of humiliations and defeat in contest by ordinary means, it will eventually find some unexpected and seemingly radical means of striking back.
When seen in proper perspective, these radical means of retaliation are usually ineffective. Otherwise they would not have become the last resort for the defeated, but would have been the fIrst resort for everyone. But they are usually shocking and spectacular to the impressionable.
