85 civilians dead in Syria after a US air strike "mistake".
Some talk in this thread about 'lack of possible solutions' and 'recruitment tools' for ISIS. Well i have an idea which could help solve the terrorism issue.
We start leaving the Middle East the fuck alone for once.
In my opinion our own imperialism has had a massive contribution to terrorism. For example most people quietly accept now that 9/11 was either planned or allowed to happen. Chilcot proved there was no legitimate reason to go into Iraq. There are tons of countries around the world with horrific human rights abuses but we're not freeing them, we're funding and arming rebel groups in oil-rich Syria then acting surprised when a group with a sick and twisted ideology finds conditions to gain power.
How easy will it be to radicalise the people affected by the 85 new deaths we've had in Syria? They know who is responsible. And this is just one event in thousands of similar ones.
If we want to fight terrorism most importantly we need to stop the witch hunt against Islam as a whole, we all rub shoulders with literally millions of Muslims everyday in the UK and terrorist incidents are essentially non-existent. That should tell you something. All we're doing by even referring to terrorists as 'Islamists' is alienating people, creating barriers and legitimising hatred which makes matters a hell of a lot worse on both sides. The vast majority of Muslims are abhorred by terrorism, but if you start pushing these people away this is obviously what ISIS want.
Instead I think we should start shouldering some responsibility for the actions of our governments and start lobbying for long-term policy change.
It might help. But obviously i'm not optimistic.
It's really sad that we're all put on earth with a life expectancy of less than 100 years yet we find all these ways to fuck eachother up.
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