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Originally Posted by outlaw
Based on your logic, they are committing these attacks as response to events hundreds of years ago. I doubt they will be satisfied anytime soon. So it seems the only thing we can do is destroy them before they destroy us.
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First, I never thought of history as "logic." History is "what happened," and as I said, it's open to interpretation as history can be rewritten to suit a particular context.
Second, I didn't say "they are committing these attacks as response to events hundreds of years ago." I just suggested considering that this may be
one of their possible motives, based on their PR referring to the West as "crusaders." And memories can last a long time; as I said earlier, the "ethnic cleansing" that followed the death of Tito and the breakup of Yugoslavia; the destruction of Iraq and the coming of ISIS that resulted from taking down Saddam Hussein, who kept the traditional enemies of Shia versus Sunni under his despotic control; the genocide in Rwanda between the Hutu and the Tutsi in the mid 1990s; the Holocaust in Europe during World War II; the Armenian genocide by the Turks around the time of World War I--all were based on cultural/societal memories from hundreds of years ago.
And third, I agree with your last statement: "... the only thing we can do is destroy them before they destroy us." Sad, but that's what it is....