terrorism

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Gee, if only the democracies had known back in 1939 that we just had to laugh at the Nazis, we could have saved ourselves six years of "blood, sweat, toil and tears"—four years for you Yanks who were late coming to the party.

'Nazism' is not terrorism, it is fascism. We yanks didn't have much to gain from the early part of the 'second' world war.

I'm sure the terrorists enjoy it if we act terrified, but they have goals far beyond that, and they are not going to hide in caves just because we laugh at them. And you surely did not mean that I should just laugh off the murder of two Canadian soldiers,

Not a question of enjoyment, it's a political policy of psychological disruption, whereby instilling fear and violence in and from a people will better allow for one's agenda to be met. Of course they have goals... recruitment, revenge, really red radishes and red rocks, religion... but motive for the terrorism is that they will *gain* by inflicting *terror* upon a people. This can be their people, your people, someone else's people, or even the population of penguins in Pennsylvania.

You mean you actually care about the death of two soldiers? Curious, as it's a soldier's duty to die in service to their country.

The goal of ISIS seems to be to set up a caliphate in the middle east and then to bring the whole world under its sway converting everyone to Islam. They think Allah will inevitably grant them victory. It's delusional of course, but so was Hitler delusional, and it took an immense effort to stop him.

Well, it's a little bit more complicated than that... but it's not a bad goal. Allah has already granted them victory: your fear breeds for their peoples more fear, bringing more peoples underneath their banner. Recruitment, revenge, religion.

Our approach to fighting terrorism is awful Do it quietly if you have to... unless your can use that terrorism for your own benefit *cough* W *cough*