Western civilization survived two global wars and nuclear brinkmanship. (And McVeigh who killed 168 with a truck).https://twitter.com/govpencein/status/753764357255770112 …
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Not to mention the millions of Syrians killed or displaced. Maybe we should mention them, too.https://twitter.com/micahzenko/status/753745139886071808 …
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ISIS is horrible & the Syrian civil war should end. (It can—via a big power deal). A rational conversation on terrorism is hard—but we must.
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The idea I take ISIS lightly is nonsense. I'll fly three times this month through an airport attacked by ISIS. I've been worried for years.
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ISIS is terribly worrying. But disproportionately alarmist, irrational, ahistorical "diagnoses" of eternal, immutable conflicts won't help.
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I've been writing for years on taking the Iraq war aftermath seriously, and long-term gravity of Saudi-US sparking of "jihad" in the 80s.
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The world that reintegrated Germany & Japan after WWII within 10 years can solve this. We need longer-term thinking, not fueling more fires.
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We *know* how to end such conflicts, fueled by a range of similar structural conflicts and ideologies. Patience, vision, plan, sanity.
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I'd say money, too, but the sane path to stabilizing this range of issues is cheaper than the cost of the nutty options being loudly pushed.
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Profile is all similar. Decentralization is the greatest trick the devil ever invented. No "pure" security solution. https://twitter.com/evanchill/status/753953880233414656 …
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People pushing to solve this with escalation & within a "conflict of civilizations" framework are selling a deadly, worse than useless path.
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Should've never let the Syrian war fester, decommission Iraqi army without hiring back 95% to paint schools, fuel "jihad" in Afghanistan...
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