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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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By Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, March, 2015
The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it.
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Good article. The fact that ISIS dissolves the "Westphalia concept of State" combined with the inter-Islamic struggle over the ideology points to how more pressure should be put on neighboring countries to work together rather than depending upon the U.S. to be the big bad cop standing in between the combatants.
I understand the reason to restrain people from joining the "Caliph" but there is a part of me that would like to see them rush off the cliff if that would help them stop hating us for our "freedom."
by moat on Thu, 02/26/2015 - 9:37am
rush off the cliff if that would help them stop hating us for our "freedom."
The whole of me wishes it. The reality that bites any kind of romantic extremism: if you can't have tolerance, you've got nothing but death to look forward to, as other people will continue to live and breed on this planet. Of course, with this subcult, they love death more than we love life, which brings me to:
Good article
What it did for me is clarify the appeal for recruits. I see WWI cannon fodder dejas vus allover again, the promise of power and domination, one's tribe uber alles, so enticing for the kiddies, the culturally humiliated, the dispossessed, until realty dawns.
Maybe losing a significant portion of a generation of young strong men to this nonsense will give birth to real cultural change in Islam? There were no Crusades during the Renaissance, even though the Enlightenment denial of them in principle was still very far away.
Cavaet emptor: just late night babbling....maybe I look at this tomorrow and go: WTF was I thinking?
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/27/2015 - 2:32am