How to End the War on Terror

[Stephen E.]

From what I see it is a waste of time. The ignorance of the masses is astounding to me as I go about my day and observe what people say and think. They do not grasp even the simplest things about anything beyond their daily routines.

Large numbers of Americans think Saddam had something to do with 9/11; very few people are aware of decades of US meddling, coercion, occupation, destruction and murder overseas; most people think the Iraq war is over and we won; most people think we will "win" in Afghanistan despite being unable to define "winning"; most people think 9/11 terrorists were motivated by religion; no native American has any idea what being occupied by foreign troops is really like, so Americans are NOT going to understand or care anything about Sharia law.

Very true. Still it would help to make more sophisticated arguments that could possibly convince those sitting on the fence to come over to the side of non-interventionism. Perhaps misconceptions about Sharia and its impact in the Islamic world is the only lingering doubt for most of them.

[Turd Ferguson]

From what I see it is a waste of time. The ignorance of the masses is astounding to me as I go about my day and observe what people say and think. They do not grasp even the simplest things about anything beyond their daily routines.

Large numbers of Americans think Saddam had something to do with 9/11; very few people are aware of decades of US meddling, coercion, occupation, destruction and murder overseas; most people think the Iraq war is over and we won; most people think we will "win" in Afghanistan despite being unable to define "winning"; most people think 9/11 terrorists were motivated by religion; no native American has any idea what being occupied by foreign troops is really like, so Americans are NOT going to understand or care anything about Sharia law.

Very true. Still it would help to make more sophisticated arguments that could possibly convince those sitting on the fence to come over to the side of non-interventionism. Perhaps misconceptions about Sharia and its impact in the Islamic world is the only lingering doubt for most of them.

Today its an issue with Sharia law, tomorrow it might be something else they have an issue with in the mid east, so to simply convince them that Sharia law is not a biggie, is just putting a bandaid on their bigger problem. The problem being that they feel that they somehow have ANY say as to what type of setup they decide to have in the mid east. If you cant get that through their skulls, youre going to be in for a very long battle with these types my friend.

Work on the ones open minded enough to look at the bigger picture than just some minor detail in their flawed reasoning for wanting to constantly fuck with other countries. If you cant convince them of the BIG picture, I wouldnt waste much time.

[Riddler]

the prob. w/ your sharia-law theory is, the one's that espouse it are all hard-liner muslims, most of a previous generation that wax nostalgic for the good 'ol days of stonings, beheadings, honor killings.....(them's were the days.....cruizin' round w/ achmed, on my '56 camel, smokin' camel non-filters, clubbing young men & women for holding hands, cutting the clits off whorish girls showing their faces...)

polls show the younger generation muslims are a lot more liberal in their faith, not as hard-core and don't dig on all the restrictions imposed by sharia.

i'm just sayin......z'what i heard.