[Magdalen] ISIS/Etc; was immigration / migrant situation, etc.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

And they so badly want to beat us, so why not let them, on condition that
they leave us alone?

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 11:45 AM, M J [Mike] Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

> >>>Perhaps the winning strategy might be to let them win.  After the next
> time they stage another successful attack similar to nine eleven, we could
> make something of a show of saying how they obviously are too strong and
> too smart for us, and then that may buy us a few years of peace, until they
> realize they've been had.<<<
>
> I often think about how ideologies in the past have only been "defeated"
> when identified with specific people/regimes.  We didn't "defeat" Nazism,
> but we did defeat Hitler and his cronies, which back then meant Victory.
> Today, in a war without end amen there isn't a specific enemy like in the
> past.  So, I wonder if the idea quoted above isn't worth considering.  It's
> not, and I'm not, Isolationist, but battling a war that will literally have
> no end, ... why not just pull totally out?  Israel would be our only real
> issue, and energy-wise, we have enough of our own to survive, period.
>
> But... the U.S. would no longer be the giant in the room that periodically
> gets up and whomps one of the normal sorts sitting in its vicinity, just
> because it can.
>