Dismay and fury in the armed forces

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Originally Posted by Skybird

Because of that kind of reasonable thinking about the current situation, we currently get overrun. Islam is not communism. Islam is not the Cold War.You cannot tame Islam. As long as it is there, it will keep coming again and again and again, until it all is it's own. We are braking. We give ground. We have run out of time. We are loosing. We are the prey. And you continue to philosophize, like so many others. Alea jacta est. It's hopeless, then.

It's quite unlike you to suggest that "unreasonable thinking" would lead to a better solution here.

There's perfectly reasonable solutions to this even if you reject any parallels with the Cold War. You can't tame it, alright, but what's the solution here? Again, "Bomb Muslims" should be neither justifyable nor practical. And even strong, assertive action should be reasonable. Otherwise, we become nothing but the bloodthirsty fanatics we so oppose.

You know my stance on this, but losing ground or not, we aren't living in a world where we can suddenly raise a banner of "Clash of Civilizations: Mortal Combat" and feel perfectly right about it. There's perfectly political, economic, and other conservative means to scale down the actual growing power of this threat; the biggest first step would be recognizing it as such and then acting out of reason.

I'm not going to go out to war against extreme Muslims, thank you, I had to leave one country already to avoid doing just that.