It’s getting to the point where this is becoming a form of dark comedy
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“The Ban will address the issue…?”
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And setting aside my snark - Trump’s lack of a meaningful strategy and execution are very worrisome. It’s clear he believes governing is really no different than selling the Trump brand and its tchotchke - simple and cheap symbolism.
We’ve seen it quite a bit - Trump talks very aggressively, but he isn’t all that aggressive. He thinks that big, simple proclamations just somehow move results into being, as if by magic - he’s not invested in expending energy doing the un-fun things that actually execute a vision.
Witness the MOAB drop. It elicited a few “f*** yeahs!” from Trumpkins - but now what? Are Islamists beating their swords into plowshares out of fear? Obviously not. But Trump wants a few splashy acts to try and intimidate enemies into yielding - his old standby in the private sector, recall, he’s sue or threaten to sue nearly everyone to get them to stand down and stop what they were doing. Ain’t going to work here. That boneheadedly simple approach is not going to adequately protect America from terrorism.
As we see terror gaining steam - what we get is Twitter yelling and no reason to have confidence Trump the Hawk has any real plan to do anything. We need a real, smart, aggressive strategy. We don’t have someone in the WH who is up to the task.
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More Muslims = more terror attacks. If he can implement travel bans on majority Muslim countries it will severely hinder terrorists long term.
Trump is the only leader in the West to my knowledge to have actually acknowledged what the problem is.
Spot on.
Except Saudia Arabia isn’t on the ban list?
For a guy who doesn’t care about this country, you sure are good at showing us how your culture is incompatible with America
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If you are uninterested in ending or severely limiting Muslim immigration to America it doesn’t really matter who the leader of America is.
So how do we address online radicalization?
As usual it’s just old Lyin’ Donald. This is despicable even by Trump’s standards…
Khan’s statement:
“This was a deliberate and cowardly attack on innocent Londoners and visitors to our city enjoying their Saturday night,” he said. “I condemn it in the strongest possible terms. There is no justification whatsoever for such barbaric acts.”
“There can be no justification for the acts of these terrorists and I am quite clear that we will never let them win.
“My message to Londoners and visitors to our great city is to be calm and vigilant today. You will see an increased police presence today, including armed officers and uniformed officers. There is no reason to be alarmed by this. We are the safest global city in the world. You saw last night as a consequence of our planning, our preparation, the rehearsals that take place, the swift response from the emergency services tackling the terrorists and also helping the injured.”
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Has Trump previously set a standard to make you think there’s a place he won’t stoop?
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Of course it does, as we need a leader who isn’t pursuing blanket-immigration-restriction-as-defense-to-terror strategies, the dumbest national security idea of the new century. And we all get it anyway - it’s just a pretext. ISIS and every terror group could quit tomorrow and alt-right worms still want to restrict immigration based on racial purity goals, so I’m not interested in what they (you) have to say on national security measures, since it isn’t being offered in good faith.
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Trump clearly didn’t read the whole statement of the mayor - in Trump’s defense, he doesn’t read all of his national security briefings either. Reading to the end is, like, hard.
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Most of this is just empty words, let’s get to the point.
How do you prevent the increase in Islamic terror attacks in America, if not through banning of Muslim immigrants?
Heh. You decry everything you disagree with as “empty words”.[quote=“therajraj, post:916, topic:229190”]
How do you prevent the increase in Islamic terror attacks in America, if not through banning of Muslim immigrants?
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Increased intelligence and targeting financial assets, and cutting it off at the root, not the limbs, meaning I’d go on (quiet) offense overseas. Oh, and I’d read national security briefings till the end.
Increased intelligence and targeting financial assets, and cutting it off at the root, not the limbs, meaning I’d go on (quiet) offense overseas. Oh, and I’d read national security briefings till the end.
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This has been tried.
The war on terror started over a decade ago and now there are more terrorists than ever.
More neoconservative nonsense.
“blow up Americans, doom future Americans to a life of regular Islamic terror, but certainly don’t call me a racist!”
-neoconservative / cuckservatives
And it’s worked pretty good. When something succeeds, we should do more of it (and improve what we’re doing).[quote=“therajraj, post:918, topic:229190”]
The war on terror started over a decade ago and now there are more terrorists than ever.
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I don’t believe that to be true, but it was always a long game to play. Unlike your beloved Nazism, Islamism doesn’t play by traditional military-political rules. We’re having to adjust to the nature of the enemy. We’re doing pretty well, but for my taste, I think we should be more aggressive.[quote=“therajraj, post:918, topic:229190”]
More neoconservative nonsense.
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You wouldn’t know whether it was or wasn’t - you merely repeat garbage you read in internet fever swamps.
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Victor Orban, Bibi Netanyahu, Witold Waszczykowski, Beata Szydło & Milos Zeman I could find in a few minutes.
Actually, it’s depressingly simple, but it seems that Trump failed miserably at the first hurdle (like many other Western leaders, to be fair). Stopping Saudi/Gulf funding is much, much more important that moronic travel bans
“It is no secret that Saudi Arabia in particular provides funding to hundreds of mosques in the UK, espousing a very hardline Wahhabist interpretation of Islam. It is often in these institutions that British extremism takes root.”
The contents of the report may prove politically as well as legally sensitive. Saudi Arabia, which has been a funding source for fundamentalist Islamist preachers and mosques, was visited by May earlier this year.
Last December, a leaked report from Germany’s federal intelligence service accused several Gulf groups of funding religious schools and radical Salafist preachers in mosques, calling it “a long-term strategy of influence”.
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