24. I'm genuinely pessimistic about whether there is any short run solution to jihadi violence anywhere.
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25. In Europe in particular, it seems like any solution lays the seeds for future problem.
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26. As I said, on the issues of free speech and protection of Jewish minority, there can't be any compromise.
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28. Problem with that suggestion, aside from civil liberties, is prisons are themselves sites of radicalization.
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29. A pre-emptive crackdown would only intensify the very alienation that produces the problem.
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@biliousbarnacle Merriman's "Dynamite Club" argues that 19th C anarchists eventually repulsed even sympathetic citizens.1 reply 3 retweets 6 likes -
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31. That last RT invites us to thing of longer history. We're living through the 4th wave of European terrorism in modern times.
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32. First wave: anarchism late 19th/early 20th; 2nd wave: rightwing violence of 1920s; 3rd wave: New Left 1970s; 4th wave: jihadi 21st cent.
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33. Of these four waves, the most dangerous one was 2nd wave, which ended, as we all know, with fascist governments of 1920s and 1930s.
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34. The less dangerous of the earlier two waves (anarchist & New Left) were self-consuming fires. Perhaps jihadis will be too.
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35. But beyond self-consuming fires, both anarchist wave dampened by rise of more organized politics, so that's one way forward.
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36. That's wrap for now. More questions that answers, I'm afraid.
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