GR66
Army.ca Veteran
- Reaction score
- 4,197
- Points
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The reason we shouldn't intervene is that we can't "win" vs. radical Islam. We can destroy some of the symptoms (IS leaders, concentrations of troops, etc.) but just like in the Palestinian Territories, or Afghanistan, or Pakistan, we are only cutting heads off the hydra. To really "defeat" the radicals you need to eliminate the general pool of the population they are coming from.
We outsiders from the non-Muslim West cannot do that. Only the Muslim world can do it once they become fed up enough with their hatred and violence to turn on them and destroy them...and change their culture and political structures enough to prevent their re-emergence as a serious threat.
As heartless as it may seem we should sit back and let them sort it out among themselves. That's not to say we should do absolutely nothing. We should tighten our security to prevent attacks on our homeland. We should recognize a "firewall" of relatively moderate states/groups in and surrounding the area that we can support against the radicals (humanitarian aid, training, sales of weapons, even airstrikes against high-value assets controlled by the radicals) to prevent the spread of the radicals into the non-Muslim World. We should strike and strike HARD in retaliation for any attacks on our homeland. We should NOT however put boots on the ground in combat. Let the moderate Muslim world face their own extremists. Let them pay the price in blood that will make them say that "never again" will they let this cancer grow within their society.
We outsiders from the non-Muslim West cannot do that. Only the Muslim world can do it once they become fed up enough with their hatred and violence to turn on them and destroy them...and change their culture and political structures enough to prevent their re-emergence as a serious threat.
As heartless as it may seem we should sit back and let them sort it out among themselves. That's not to say we should do absolutely nothing. We should tighten our security to prevent attacks on our homeland. We should recognize a "firewall" of relatively moderate states/groups in and surrounding the area that we can support against the radicals (humanitarian aid, training, sales of weapons, even airstrikes against high-value assets controlled by the radicals) to prevent the spread of the radicals into the non-Muslim World. We should strike and strike HARD in retaliation for any attacks on our homeland. We should NOT however put boots on the ground in combat. Let the moderate Muslim world face their own extremists. Let them pay the price in blood that will make them say that "never again" will they let this cancer grow within their society.