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Originally Posted by Ike Bana
I don't know how the developed nations might do anything about this beyond pumping aid money in. And aid money typically ends up in the hands of the despots or the terrorists...never gets to the people who actually need it. So it goes...
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So if thinking and behavior cannot be altered or changed, what other recourse is there? I keep hearing from the right that we could have/should have prevented the rise of ISIS and I don't see how.
As long as kings and dictators abound, Islamic radicalism has been kept bottled up. Iraq, Libya, Egypt are a few examples. Do we believe that they can get a foothold in Iran or Saudi Arabia as currently constituted. Probably not. In poor countries such as Afghanistan and Somalia, it has spread.
We keep talking about fighting and defeating ISIS which is damn near impossible unless we are willing to drop some serious bombs and inflict collateral damage.