Sooner or later, we will have to come to the realization that terrorism cannot be eliminated by force. Stop destabilizing Arab countries, stop imperial interference in Northern Africa, and perhaps we'll see an end to this nonsense.
If there's any lesson from the past 15 years, it is this: state engineering does not work. Period. You cannot control it. You don't "allow" anything. You cannot stop anything. The forces are beyond your control.
Americans and Europeans have to step out of the colonial mindset of trying to control the world. Then we'll have peace.
In your earlier comment you wrote:
> Stop destabilizing Arab countries
Isn't supporting the dictatorship in Saudi Arabia pretty much supporting stability? How can you stop supporting a dictator without a big risk of causing destabilization (as happened in Libya)?
Seems like you want two logical opposities simultaneously?
How about getting out of other people's countries?
I agree that an overreaction is likely, though considering how crazy the latest security law are, I don't see how much worse it can get in this regard.
Ok. So if it indeed can be attributed to them, or if they go out and admit, then fine, send in the tanks - the Paris attack would be an act of war.
> considering how crazy the latest security law are, I don't see how much worse it can get in this regard.
Oh it can. We have a long way to go from what we have now to what was in USSR or Nazi Germany. I just hope we don't decide to run the distance.
What worries me more is that the overrection will be aimed at immigrants and minorities who live in Europe. There already are reports of this beginning to happen.
They claimed responsibility. As for sending in the tanks, I don't see that happening.
> Oh it can. We have a long way to go from what we have now to what was in USSR or Nazi Germany. I just hope we don't decide to run the distance.
Yeah, but neither were democracies. The Red Scare-era US would be a better example. I really hope it doesn't go this way.
> What worries me more is that the overrection will be aimed at immigrants and minorities who live in Europe. There already are reports of this beginning to happen.
Probably not from the government, but who knows what the population will do?
> By the same logic that a wound heals when you stop poking the scab.
Except that our governments see themselves as providing first aid to an infected wound. Infected wounds only get worse without treatment.
> If there's any lesson from the past 15 years, it is this: state engineering does not work. Period.
Their intention was (probably) good, execution on the other hand was less then stellar.
> You cannot control it. You don't "allow" anything. You cannot stop anything. The forces are beyond your control.
1940's France would beg to disagree. The Allies in WW2 clearly stopped the Axis powers and controlled their aggression.
> Americans and Europeans have to step out of the colonial mindset of trying to control the world.
Agreed.