Quote: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.

It's certainly not western actions by the United States going back to the middle ages. I assume you refer mostly about the crusades, but the crusades were a response to Islamic aggression. They went pretty far overboard, and I hate to say it, but that was a sign of the times. Muslims perpetuated the very same attrocities in another time.


Israel had to be armed. You are talking about like 10 million Jews dead center (not literally) of over a billion Muslims who want nothing more than to see the Jews extinguished... This immediately following the holocaust. There wouldn't be an Israel today and Jews would be an endangered species if we didn't intervene.

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