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Post by Fidite Nemini on Nov 22, 2015 12:22:34 GMT -6
You can't kill terrorism, the same as you can't kill the emotion that is fear. What you can do is erode the foundations on which organized terrorism builds, that is them using fear and recruited people. Don't send soldiers or bombs into the crisis regions. Send money, fund the building of social infrastructure. It might sound counterintuitive but most people aren't exactly keen on blowing themselves up when they actually have something to live for and can do so in relative comfort, same as the usual enemy image of the evil western nations isn't very compelling to make people kill others when its those same nations that are improving your standard of life. Providing solid, stable and affordable education is but one facet that is required, but not the end all, be all. Terrorism is a pretty simple thing. Exploit people's fears to strike more fear into people. Take away the cause for fear, stabilizing the environment and groups recruiting people to kill and blow stuff up will run out of manpower. Not going to happen over night of course and the whole thing has to be done the right way (can't just drop piles of money somewhere and hope it goes where it needs to go), but terrorism is a symptom, not a cause and as such you have to treat that which enables terrorism, which is existential fear and unfocused frustration and anger that gets repurposed by terrorist organizations. They'll just switch to a different set of fears. Hell, I'm sure that if the West were to start improving the standard of living in the middle east, someone would start fear mongering "They're trying to end our traditions" and still be able to recruit people. Possibly. But undubitably it'd be harder for them to find those people and there'd be less potential recruits than compared to how things are going in a lot of places right now.
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