Quote Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh View Post
You can chicken and egg the historical antecedents of these things ad nauseum.

The core concern is really rather simple -- How do we defeat them? As with much that is simple, simple does not equal easy.
Might help if we stop doing things that drive them into poverty or cause other problems for them that drive them into extremism and make them very angry.
I'm aware it will not stop all of them, but reducing their numbers may be a good start, I'm not aware of a good way to end an ideology.

Quote Originally Posted by Viking View Post
So in short, colonialism in and of itself is not the cause.
No, it is in even shorter.