Improving our odds against terror

[Tribesman]

Azi , #3 don't stop supporting them , but balance the support - and no I don't mean give equal amounts of money to a military dictatorship to the south just to achieve petty political gains -if every other nation in the world turns round and says ..."oi you are out of order , stop that shit now" and one country turns round and says "they can do whatever they want as they are our friends" then that is feeding the beast.
Supporting dictatorships who are oppressing their own or neighbouring people is feeding the beast .
Funding and training terrorists for your own short term aims is feeding the beast .

[A.Saturnus]

It is right to use statistical information in investigations. If the police is looking for a rapist, would it be sexist only to check men? It is discrimination when you don`t get a job because of your religion or can`t enter a country because your name sounds Arabian, but it is not discrimination when you get checked by the police more often because you fit into a statistically generated profile.

[Azi Tohak]

Azi , #3 don't stop supporting them , but balance the support - and no I don't mean give equal amounts of money to a military dictatorship to the south just to achieve petty political gains -if every other nation in the world turns round and says ..."oi you are out of order , stop that shit now" and one country turns round and says "they can do whatever they want as they are our friends" then that is feeding the beast.
Supporting dictatorships who are oppressing their own or neighbouring people is feeding the beast .
Funding and training terrorists for your own short term aims is feeding the beast .

As much as I agree you, no one can predit the future, only try and guide it. What happened with AQ and the Taliban in Afghanistan in the 80s was politics. Western nations (not just the US) thought the USSR was our biggest threat so we used the little guys (which they liked) to keep the USSR off balance. It worked didn't it?

So then it came around and bit us. Could anyone have predicted that twenty years ago? Mabye. Would anyone important have believed that person? At the expense of plugging away at the current threat (the USSR)? No.

And sure, it would be great if the UN could reach a consensus and force, through diplomatic means, a nation that is out of line back into line... but life doesn't work like that. I have no doubt that every man (and woman too) in our Armed Forces thread would have loved to have spent their time building something for the poor, not serving with a war on. But talking alone does not work as often as anyone would like. That is why you need the stick. And sometimes the stick is a less-despotic (at least at the moment) group that can you can use.

Is it fair? Does that really matter? It never has in the past.

Azi