RE: Religion of Terror? Leaked ISIS Docs Show 70% of Recruits Don’t Even Know What Islam Is
Criminals, including the pathological and sociopathic, have often found cover under banner of some pseudo-religious crusade. The problem is not what to do about such surface appearances, but how to counter actual intentions.
I find the whole "terrorist"-branded bureaucracy-bloating responses by western politicians to be self-defeating and veering toward authoritarian suppression of individual liberties, for the convenience of a conniving few. How are seventeen "intelligence" agencies realistically helping deal with anything? Far more costly to society of human lives and well-being than so-called foreign conspiracies are the domestic ones of sugar price-supports and sugar-water carbonated beverages that result in thousands more deaths per year than any "terrorist" intrigues.
Thanks for your honest opinion! Upvoted!
Agreed! The media talking heads with megaphones shouting "terrorism" makes it seem like a much larger problem than it is. How does a geographically isolated nation with a military over one million strong, that spends hundreds of billions of dollars on defense and intelligence feel threatened by a band of rag-tag fighters in the desert? And, why, as you point out, aren't more people concerned about the very real and fixable problems that they face every day?
^^I have a conspiracy theory that alternative media talking heads like Jan Morgan and Pamela Gellar are CIA operatives with the primary purpose of making Americans be cool with the Patriot Act and all of its unAmerican trappings