If I wanted to avoid escalation by militant Islam in the #middleeast, I wouldn’t start by making a quarter million able-bodied men homeless & motherless with nothing to lose.
@gimulnautti Honest question: what would you do to rescue your men, women, and children who’d been taken hostage? Or to prevent another brutal slaughter of 1200 of your citizens by a known terrorist org that lives next door.
Do you believe that being reasonable with a #terrorst org that openly calls for your complete eradication is the solution?
What if it were your children that had been slaughtered or kidnapped?
@thetechtutor How well did that go in Northern Ireland?
History seems to point to two answers:
In modern times terrorist organisations are almost never defeated by military actions, but by political solutions that offer the people a better alternative. The people know these are madmen, but the madman is the only one speaking for them so there’s no choice.
In old times brutal empires took hundreds of years to crush repeating rebellions and eradicated whole ethnic groups in the process.
My personal favorite camp on the continent. Fashioned out of a “jamesway” that was used in the Korean War. It’s a little more gritty and DIY than other camps, which gives it its charm and explains why I love it.