Quote:Radical Islam hates and is at war with anyone who isn't radical Islamic and of their particular sect. I used to believe that the meddling by the US is why they are at war with us. In the last few years I've realized that they have always been at war with us and that our meddling only moved us up to be a priority target behind probably only Israel. The war was inevitable and would have been at our doorsteps anyways. It was only a matter of when and not if.


Most of the African nations have done nothing to Islam and they are currently under siege. It really is as simple as convert or die.

I don't think it's quite that simple. Yes, you've pretty well summarized radical Islam (as well as a lot of "radical" ideologies), but I think western actions going back to the Middle Ages, but primarily in the 20th century, have served to galvanize and create the specific brew of radical Islam we see today.

 

All the same, the fight never should have escaped the Middle East. It's on us for not killing Bin Laden when we had the chance, for meddling in Iraq, for coddling and arming Israel at the expense of the rest of the region, and for not recognizing ISIS for what it is early on and carpet bombing them back to a pre-Flinstones existence, among other things. Paris proves how much damage ISIS can do, and how little it takes for them to do it. They're dangerous, more dangerous than Al Qaeda ever was imo, and they need to be shot down, blown up, whatever it takes to put them out of our misery and send them on their way to those 72 40-year-old Star Trek fans that live in Allah's basement.

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