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One reason the Brits and Europeans have such success in getting information is their ability to profile. Of course, the bad guysa re now using people of different ethnic and national origin so that their terrorists don't look like citizens of Saudi Arabi, Syria, Iran. They are using Chechens and people from Kosovo, Serbia, etc...
The best way we can defeat them is to cotinue to do what Americans do best; integrate them into our society. In Europe they are kept out of society and marginalized in education, employment, property rights and many other ways. Americans should welcome them and do all we can to bring them into the American prosperiy bubble... Living well, living long, living safely with expect when we begin.ations that ones children will do the same is the best way to defeat the childish appeal to romantic wanna-be warriors. The reality of being a martyr does not appeal when you have things to do, places to go, challenges in education and career...
we must always be American in all of our defenses. If we get pulled into their game, then its a "Who can kill the most" contest that we lost when we began.
The Nazis landed several saboteurs during WWII... Many simply vanished into the countryside. They saw no reason to fight, knew they could not win, and here was a chance to immigrate with money in the pocket...or so the tales from along the Florida coast went when I was a child.. Cache's of weapons and explosives found in sand dunes, radios and ruber boats...but nobody ever found...
One reason the Brits and Europeans have such success in getting information is their ability to profile. Of course, the bad guysa re now using people of different ethnic and national origin so that their terrorists don't look like citizens of Saudi Arabi, Syria, Iran. They are using Chechens and people from Kosovo, Serbia, etc...
The best way we can defeat them is to cotinue to do what Americans do best; integrate them into our society. In Europe they are kept out of society and marginalized in education, employment, property rights and many other ways. Americans should welcome them and do all we can to bring them into the American prosperiy bubble... Living well, living long, living safely with expect when we begin.ations that ones children will do the same is the best way to defeat the childish appeal to romantic wanna-be warriors. The reality of being a martyr does not appeal when you have things to do, places to go, challenges in education and career...
we must always be American in all of our defenses. If we get pulled into their game, then its a "Who can kill the most" contest that we lost when we began.
The Nazis landed several saboteurs during WWII... Many simply vanished into the countryside. They saw no reason to fight, knew they could not win, and here was a chance to immigrate with money in the pocket...or so the tales from along the Florida coast went when I was a child.. Cache's of weapons and explosives found in sand dunes, radios and ruber boats...but nobody ever found...
Posted by:AndyJ | July 30, 2007 at 07:56 PM