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2016-09-15 Terror Networks

Why the War On Terror Has Taken 15 Years, and Will Take Much Longer

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-09-15 07:18|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Comment from the article above:

Rex Mundy • 14 hours ago
I used to be one of those who worried and whined about Islam, until I realized that it's relatively normal compared to the deep pathology of modern Western liberalism. Muslims are just reacting as our own forefathers would if they encountered the pathologies of this civilization for the first time. Islamism is a symptom, not a disease. The disease is the liberal ROT within our own lands. WE need to fight a jihad against the internal rot, and the Islamic problem will go away along with it.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-09-15 07:26|| 2016-09-15 07:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Sorry but the war has been going on for 700+ years and as has been pointed out the current iteration is due to denial by the elites of what the problem actually is.

The elites are like a doctor that recognizes a disease but can't bring himself to treat it with the one drug that might actually work.

Posted by AlanC 2016-09-15 07:41|| 2016-09-15 07:41|| Front Page Top

#3 At the risk of stating the obvious, all wars run on money. Follow the money trail to its source and kill it. Whether that be the king of Saudi Arabia or the ayotollah of Iran.

Trump might just get it enough to threaten to do it. And that will be enough.

Posted by phil_b 2016-09-15 08:05|| 2016-09-15 08:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Two things make the world go around, and the other one is money.~ anon

Posted by Besoeker 2016-09-15 08:20|| 2016-09-15 08:20|| Front Page Top

#5 ...and America's longest war started at its inception on the frontiers till the 1880s.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-09-15 09:16|| 2016-09-15 09:16|| Front Page Top

#6 You can't win a war without first naming an enemy. "Terror" is a state of mind, not an entity, and not an enemy that can be attacked and defeated.

Posted by Crusader 2016-09-15 10:32|| 2016-09-15 10:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Because nothing, nothing whatsoever, is being done in Britain or anywhere else to change "the mind-set and thought of people."

Yes, it does not help if political correctness is invoked every time some muzzie shoots up the place, lops off some one's head, or burns some one alive.

Width set to 500, because it was breaking Rantburg.

--trailing wife at 2:00 p.m. ET

Posted by JohnQC 2016-09-15 11:09|| 2016-09-15 11:09|| Front Page Top

#8 AlanC, although you are correct when the West was clearly the strong horse Islam kept the crazy in control.

The denial of the problem is the problem.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-09-15 11:37|| 2016-09-15 11:37|| Front Page Top

#9 To follow up on Rex Mundy's comment in #1, an excellent book is "Jihad vs. McWorld" by Barber.

Posted by KBK 2016-09-15 14:26|| 2016-09-15 14:26|| Front Page Top

#10 Thanks TW. I appreciate the reset on size. Wasn't sure how to do it.

Posted by JohnQC 2016-09-15 17:22|| 2016-09-15 17:22|| Front Page Top

#11 I clicked "Inspect element" on the pic, copied it and stored it for future reference. Thx. again.

Posted by JohnQC 2016-09-15 17:25|| 2016-09-15 17:25|| Front Page Top

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