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shamrock_uk · 06-01-2005, 03:58 AM

I have to agree. Terrorism, after all, kills a very very small number of people in the grand scheme of things. The notion that it could ever bring down a government like Britain or the US is implausable IMO.

Having watched some Chechen jihadi recruiting videos though I'm thinking we're very lucky that terrorism in the Middle-East is so comparatively primitive!

Nothing breeds radical Islam as much as a lack of political expression - in country after country within the last 30 years you see clampdowns followed within a couple of years by the rapid ascent of Islamism. Give it 50 years for a modicum of political freedom to exist in the Middle-East and it will lose its momentum.

[ 06-01-2005, 04:19 AM: Message edited by: shamrock_uk ]

06-01-2005, 03:58 AM	#58
shamrock_uk Dracolich Join Date: January 24, 2004 Location: UK Age: 42 Posts: 3,092	I have to agree. Terrorism, after all, kills a very very small number of people in the grand scheme of things. The notion that it could ever bring down a government like Britain or the US is implausable IMO. Having watched some Chechen jihadi recruiting videos though I'm thinking we're very lucky that terrorism in the Middle-East is so comparatively primitive! Nothing breeds radical Islam as much as a lack of political expression - in country after country within the last 30 years you see clampdowns followed within a couple of years by the rapid ascent of Islamism. Give it 50 years for a modicum of political freedom to exist in the Middle-East and it will lose its momentum. [ 06-01-2005, 04:19 AM: Message edited by: shamrock_uk ]