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Originally Posted by TexaninVA
Well, you may deem it simplistic, but I think it provides us significant insight. Again, I thank you for at least being honest about where you're coming from ... i.e., essentially no difference.
You argue your points well ... I just happen to think your world view is neither realistic nor helpful to our longer term security, multiple degrees notwithstanding. I imagine you think likewise of my world view. Hey, that's why this is a discussion board. It's not personal so lets just agree to disagree at this point.
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You think I can see your world view in a few posts? Hardly. Nor, can you see mine.
I have said nothing about my politics towards the Middle East. There is definitely a quickness on the part of Muslims in the Middle East to go to violence to make points but we are not talking about that really but about some guy who beheaded a woman in Oklahoma who had converted to Islam in prison probably to survive in a gang culture where belonging to a group keeps you from being raped. Or, raped less. I did represent prisoners at the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Stillwater for 18 months or so as a Student Attorney at the University of Minnesota Law School.
People behave differently when their survival is on the line. Very few Americans can really comprehend that unless they have been in a combat zone. I have never been in a combat zone but did volunteer with Veterans of Foreign Wars Hospital for a year of weekends in 1977-1978 so I did get a first hand look at the long term effects of combat in people in their 90s but also much younger.
The very violent actions of Muslims like those in ISIS usually come from combat zones. I personally do not know what I would do when presented with such a situation. I doubt if few really do unless they have had extensive military training to deal with the fear, stress, and deprivations.