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Originally Posted by Oberon
Rockstar makes a good point and one that I'm sure I've mentioned before, or if I haven't then I should have done. You're far more likely to die in a car accident than through an act of terror. Of course, that doesn't mean that we should be lax in our vigilance, but equally we should overreact and panic in response to an individual act of terror.
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These terrorists don't have much real power, but in a world of mass and social media, they can leverage it all out of proportion to their numbers.
Not to minimize the attacks this week, but in the end they can't bring down world civilization. These losers will always be outnumbered. About the best they can hope is to create friction and fear and in that they are certainly succeeding.
The new networks this week has been bombarding us with terrorist portraits. Security cam clips of the terrorist attacks and re-broadcasts of terrorist threat videos, articles from terrorist magazines, even a documentary about ISIS schools educating toddler-terrorists. And then at the same time showing us a vast host of Syrian refugees headed this way.
Plus, is something eerie odd about watching Russia expend expensive cruise missiles on a war-torn patch of desert which has the industrial-economic foot print probably one tenth of what the Axis satellite of Slovakia had in WW2. And this after months of the US bombing said patch right and left
But fair or not, it's happening. And unless some modern day Lawrence of Arabia can gather a Muslim Army to lead and win the fight against ISIS, it looks like we're going to be committing non-Muslim ground troops to yet another war in the Middle East, which we will win. However, it is likely to have the ultimate effect of recruiting yet another generation of angry jihadists.