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Old 07-05-2015, 06:12 PM
 
Location: Dallas
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I'll take that bet. The US has never been proactive to these type of situations when it's not on their shores. The US has always been reactive and do a 180 degree about face when it does and still hasn't learned anything since 9/11 (or even Pearl Harbor).

Semper Fi.
The only thing to learn from 9/11 or Pearl Harbor is when the puppetmasters of Amerika want a war, they will kill countless Americans to persuade us.

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Old 07-05-2015, 07:22 PM
 
Location: The Ranch in Olam Haba
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That worked real well for France with Charlie Hebdo and HyperKosher Market, and for Denmark with the attack on the synagogue.
The attitudes toward Muslims became more positive afterwards.

Ratings of Muslims rise in France after Charlie Hebdo, just as in U.S. after 9/11 | Pew Research Center
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Old 07-05-2015, 07:34 PM
 
Location: New York Area
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And that won't work any better than in the past.
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Old 07-05-2015, 08:33 PM
 
Location: NC
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Unfortunately there is a school of thought that one makes "friends" of enemies first and then expects them to reciprocate. The problem with that was illustrated by a story told by a Congressman in relation to Administration hopes on Iran. He told of a zoo cage where a lamb was laying down next to a lion. Someone said, "so cute, so Biblical. How do you do that?" The zookeeper said "there's a different lamb in there every day."
Yes, that school of thought was tried in WWII with the Hitler appeaser. It simply bought him time.
Like the story!
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