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Originally Posted by blueash
This will be the greatest recruiting tool for ISIS they could imagine. Getting the US to drop bombs on them, which will taking out a few people, a few buildings, a few supplies is not going to scare them. But the propaganda value of the new videos, and tweets, and recruitment speeches will be huge. Get ready for an enormous increase in support for radicals by people who were formerly on the fence. Having your enemy attack you has been one of the best ways to create support for your side. Remember the Maine, Gulf of Tonkin, Pearl Harbor. When America believes it has been attacked we rally and doves become hawks. It will be no different in Islamic families. If we are seen as attacking there are many who will join to fight us who would not have felt compelled to fight in the absence of our military actions. So ISIS has succeeded by beheading 3 westerners in goading us into billions more spent, likely hundreds or thousands more deaths to fight an enemy we cannot defeat as it is not a nation but an idea. Until the local communities and people are willing to fight this idea themselves, and fight as hard as ISIS our opinion will not change the long term outcome. As in Vietnam the world's greatest military couldn't stop a rag tag outfit because the people who lived there didn't care to fight hard enough to stop Ho.
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This is like saying we caused the town drunk to die because one of us opened a liquor store near his favorite gutter and he bought too much there.
Regarding "..
they would not have FELT compelled to fight in absence of our military actions"??? So now we're
analyzing the
feelings of borderline savages with a stomach for joining up with beheading, crucifying butchers and rapists?
More enabling crap.....