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

[Lynn Ronkainen]

I read an editorial yesterday that created a timeline beginning with 9/11 
and said that O Bin L knew he could not afford to mount a world war with his 
followers,  but in orchestrating the attack in NYC the fallout, in the 
ensuing years, did for him what he could have never done  through  his own 
'army'... frightening thought, but possibly what he intended. It has sure 
happened. I remember when we went to war in '03 how I thought that 
'religious wars' were only the thing of the history books...

Lynn

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When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck
 "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
by Richard Rohr

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

>>>>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.