How to End Terrorism: Stop Participating in it!

[georgephillip]

According to arguably "the world's most important public intellectual"...
"On 14 October 2014, the lead story in the New York Times reported a study by the CIA that reviews major terrorist operations run by the White House around the world, in an effort to determine the factors that led to their success or failure, finally concluding that unfortunately successes were rare so that some rethinking of policy is in order.

"The article went on to quote Obama as saying that he had asked the CIA to carry out such inquiries in order to find cases of 'financing and supplying arms to an insurgency in a country that actually worked out well. And they couldn’t come up with much.'

"So he has some reluctance about continuing such efforts.

"There were no cries of outrage, no indignation, nothing.

The conclusion seems quite clear.

"In western political culture, it is taken to be entirely natural and appropriate that the Leader of the Free World should be a terrorist rogue state and should openly proclaim its eminence in such crimes.

"And it is only natural and appropriate that the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and liberal constitutional lawyer who holds the reins of power should be concerned only with how to carry out such actions more efficaciously.

"A closer look establishes these conclusions quite firmly."

Noam Chomsky So the US is a terrorist rogue state - what s wrong with that - Stop the War Coalition

So...stopping terrorism is as simple as stopping the practice of terrorism.

How would that impact the US economy?

 

[deltex1]

Yeah...that invasion of Europe back in '44 was a bummer.

 

[georgephillip]

Yeah...that invasion of Europe back in '44 was a bummer.

It was inevitable after our invasion of '18.
Belleau Wood:

"HERE FELL

"1st LT QUENTIN ROOSEVELT

95th SQ 1st PURSUIT GP

AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

JULY 14 1918"

At least some of the Roosevelts risked their lives a hundred years ago.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/travel/where-americans-turned-the-tide-in-world-war-i.html?_r=0

 

[westwall]

According to arguably "the world's most important public intellectual"...
"On 14 October 2014, the lead story in the New York Times reported a study by the CIA that reviews major terrorist operations run by the White House around the world, in an effort to determine the factors that led to their success or failure, finally concluding that unfortunately successes were rare so that some rethinking of policy is in order.

"The article went on to quote Obama as saying that he had asked the CIA to carry out such inquiries in order to find cases of 'financing and supplying arms to an insurgency in a country that actually worked out well. And they couldn’t come up with much.'

"So he has some reluctance about continuing such efforts.

"There were no cries of outrage, no indignation, nothing.

The conclusion seems quite clear.

"In western political culture, it is taken to be entirely natural and appropriate that the Leader of the Free World should be a terrorist rogue state and should openly proclaim its eminence in such crimes.

"And it is only natural and appropriate that the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and liberal constitutional lawyer who holds the reins of power should be concerned only with how to carry out such actions more efficaciously.

"A closer look establishes these conclusions quite firmly."

Noam Chomsky So the US is a terrorist rogue state - what s wrong with that - Stop the War Coalition

So...stopping terrorism is as simple as stopping the practice of terrorism.

How would that impact the US economy?

Chomsky's a known liar. Nothing he says is to be believed.

 

[Ringel05]

According to arguably "the world's most important public intellectual"...
"On 14 October 2014, the lead story in the New York Times reported a study by the CIA that reviews major terrorist operations run by the White House around the world, in an effort to determine the factors that led to their success or failure, finally concluding that unfortunately successes were rare so that some rethinking of policy is in order.

"The article went on to quote Obama as saying that he had asked the CIA to carry out such inquiries in order to find cases of 'financing and supplying arms to an insurgency in a country that actually worked out well. And they couldn’t come up with much.'

"So he has some reluctance about continuing such efforts.

"There were no cries of outrage, no indignation, nothing.

The conclusion seems quite clear.

"In western political culture, it is taken to be entirely natural and appropriate that the Leader of the Free World should be a terrorist rogue state and should openly proclaim its eminence in such crimes.

"And it is only natural and appropriate that the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and liberal constitutional lawyer who holds the reins of power should be concerned only with how to carry out such actions more efficaciously.

"A closer look establishes these conclusions quite firmly."

Noam Chomsky So the US is a terrorist rogue state - what s wrong with that - Stop the War Coalition

So...stopping terrorism is as simple as stopping the practice of terrorism.

How would that impact the US economy?

Proof that if one looks hard enough one can find, or interpret something to justify their world view...... Yup folks, ya can't make this shit up.

 

[Contumacious]

So...stopping terrorism is as simple as stopping the practice of terrorism.

How would that impact the US economy?

The Military Industrial Complex would say to thanks but no thanks.

The reason they are in Syria trying to remove Assad - a non-Jihadist - is because the MIC needs a Jihadist in power , accuse him of being a bogeyman and then steal our money, our youth and our Liberties fighting him. The "War on Terror" is perpetual.

.

.

 

[georgephillip]

According to arguably "the world's most important public intellectual"...
"On 14 October 2014, the lead story in the New York Times reported a study by the CIA that reviews major terrorist operations run by the White House around the world, in an effort to determine the factors that led to their success or failure, finally concluding that unfortunately successes were rare so that some rethinking of policy is in order.

"The article went on to quote Obama as saying that he had asked the CIA to carry out such inquiries in order to find cases of 'financing and supplying arms to an insurgency in a country that actually worked out well. And they couldn’t come up with much.'

"So he has some reluctance about continuing such efforts.

"There were no cries of outrage, no indignation, nothing.

The conclusion seems quite clear.

"In western political culture, it is taken to be entirely natural and appropriate that the Leader of the Free World should be a terrorist rogue state and should openly proclaim its eminence in such crimes.

"And it is only natural and appropriate that the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and liberal constitutional lawyer who holds the reins of power should be concerned only with how to carry out such actions more efficaciously.

"A closer look establishes these conclusions quite firmly."

Noam Chomsky So the US is a terrorist rogue state - what s wrong with that - Stop the War Coalition

So...stopping terrorism is as simple as stopping the practice of terrorism.

How would that impact the US economy?

Chomsky's a known liar. Nothing he says is to be believed.

Point out Chomsky's lies about Angola:
"In Angola, the US joined South Africa in providing the crucial support for Jonas Savimbi’s terrorist UNITA army, and continued to do so after Savimbi had been roundly defeated in a carefully monitored free election and even after South Africa had withdrawn support from this 'monster whose lust for power had brought appalling misery to his people,' in the words of British Ambassador to Angola Marrack Goulding, seconded by the CIA station chief in neighboring Kinshasa who warned that 'it wasn’t a good idea' to support the monster 'because of the extent of Savimbi’s crimes. He was terribly brutal.'

"Despite extensive and murderous US-backed terrorist operations in Angola, Cuban forces drove South African aggressors out of the country, compelled them to leave illegally occupied Namibia, and opened the way for the Angolan election in which, after his defeat, Savimbi 'dismissed entirely the views of nearly 800 foreign elections observers here that the balloting…was generally free and fair' (New York Times), and continued the terrorist war with US support."
Noam Chomsky So the US is a terrorist rogue state - what s wrong with that - Stop the War Coalition

 

[georgephillip]

So...stopping terrorism is as simple as stopping the practice of terrorism.

How would that impact the US economy?

The Military Industrial Complex would say to thanks but no thanks.

The reason they are in Syria trying to remove Assad - a non-Jihadist - is because the MIC needs a Jihadist in power , accuse him of being a bogeyman and then steal our money, our youth and our Liberties fighting him. The "War on Terror" is perpetual.

.

.

It's not called the Long War for nothing. Redrawing the borders of a New Middle East originates in the mid-1980s when a rival superpower would have prevented the level of mass killing we are seeing today.

The US neo-cons simply resurrected an Israeli plan authored by Oded Yinon which called for breaking up Iraq and Syria into a series of sub-states modeled after Lebanon:

"The Western front, which on the surface appears more problematic, is in fact less complicated than the Eastern front, in which most of the events that make the headlines have been taking place recently.

"Lebanon's total dissolution into five provinces serves as a precendent for the entire Arab world including Egypt, Syria, Iraq and the Arabian peninsula and is already following that track.

"The dissolution of Syria and Iraq later on into ethnically or religiously unqiue areas such as in Lebanon, is Israel's primary target on the Eastern front in the long run, while the dissolution of the military power of those states serves as the primary short term target.

"Syria will fall apart, in accordance with its ethnic and religious structure, into several states such as in present day Lebanon, so that there will be a Shi'ite Alawi state along its coast, a Sunni state in the Aleppo area, another Sunni state in Damascus hostile to its northern neighbor, and the Druzes who will set up a state, maybe even in our Golan, and certainly in the Hauran and in northern Jordan.

"This state of affairs will be the guarantee for peace and security in the area in the long run, and that aim is already within our reach today.14"

The Zionist Plan for the Middle East by Oded Yinon translated and edited by Israel Shahak

 

[georgephillip]

According to arguably "the world's most important public intellectual"...
"On 14 October 2014, the lead story in the New York Times reported a study by the CIA that reviews major terrorist operations run by the White House around the world, in an effort to determine the factors that led to their success or failure, finally concluding that unfortunately successes were rare so that some rethinking of policy is in order.

"The article went on to quote Obama as saying that he had asked the CIA to carry out such inquiries in order to find cases of 'financing and supplying arms to an insurgency in a country that actually worked out well. And they couldn’t come up with much.'

"So he has some reluctance about continuing such efforts.

"There were no cries of outrage, no indignation, nothing.

The conclusion seems quite clear.

"In western political culture, it is taken to be entirely natural and appropriate that the Leader of the Free World should be a terrorist rogue state and should openly proclaim its eminence in such crimes.

"And it is only natural and appropriate that the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and liberal constitutional lawyer who holds the reins of power should be concerned only with how to carry out such actions more efficaciously.

"A closer look establishes these conclusions quite firmly."

Noam Chomsky So the US is a terrorist rogue state - what s wrong with that - Stop the War Coalition

So...stopping terrorism is as simple as stopping the practice of terrorism.

How would that impact the US economy?

Proof that if one looks hard enough one can find, or interpret something to justify their world view...... Yup folks, ya can't make this shit up.

You can always stay asleep; waking would probably only make things worse, in your case.
"The three examples highlighted in the New York Times report of US terrorism are only the tip of the iceberg.

"Nevertheless, it is useful to have this prominent acknowledgment of Washington’s dedication to murderous and destructive terror operations and of the insignificance of all of this to the political class, which accepts it as normal and proper that the US should be a terrorist superpower, immune to law and civilized norms.

"Oddly, the world may not agree.

"An international poll released a year ago by the Worldwide Independent Network/Gallup International Association (WIN/GIA) found that the United States is ranked far in the lead as 'the biggest threat to world peace today,' far ahead of second-place Pakistan (doubtless inflated by the Indian vote), with no one else even close."

Noam Chomsky So the US is a terrorist rogue state - what s wrong with that - Stop the War Coalition

 

[Ringel05]

So...stopping terrorism is as simple as stopping the practice of terrorism.

How would that impact the US economy?

The Military Industrial Complex would say to thanks but no thanks.

The reason they are in Syria trying to remove Assad - a non-Jihadist - is because the MIC needs a Jihadist in power , accuse him of being a bogeyman and then steal our money, our youth and our Liberties fighting him. The "War on Terror" is perpetual.

.

.

It's not called the Long War for nothing. Redrawing the borders of a New Middle East originates in the mid-1980s when a rival superpower would have prevented the level of mass killing we are seeing today.

The US neo-cons simply resurrected an Israeli plan authored by Oded Yinon which called for breaking up Iraq and Syria into a series of sub-states modeled after Lebanon:

"The Western front, which on the surface appears more problematic, is in fact less complicated than the Eastern front, in which most of the events that make the headlines have been taking place recently.

"Lebanon's total dissolution into five provinces serves as a precendent for the entire Arab world including Egypt, Syria, Iraq and the Arabian peninsula and is already following that track.

"The dissolution of Syria and Iraq later on into ethnically or religiously unqiue areas such as in Lebanon, is Israel's primary target on the Eastern front in the long run, while the dissolution of the military power of those states serves as the primary short term target.

"Syria will fall apart, in accordance with its ethnic and religious structure, into several states such as in present day Lebanon, so that there will be a Shi'ite Alawi state along its coast, a Sunni state in the Aleppo area, another Sunni state in Damascus hostile to its northern neighbor, and the Druzes who will set up a state, maybe even in our Golan, and certainly in the Hauran and in northern Jordan.

"This state of affairs will be the guarantee for peace and security in the area in the long run, and that aim is already within our reach today.14"

The Zionist Plan for the Middle East by Oded Yinon translated and edited by Israel Shahak

Ya know, instead of focusing on cherry picked historical facts in a vacuum ya might try incorporating the whole to include history and culture from the beginning of Islamic expansion to the present, including western and eastern involvement plus psychological and sociological factors of all peoples involved. Granted that would completely negate your postulation in the OP...........

 

[Ringel05]

According to arguably "the world's most important public intellectual"...
"On 14 October 2014, the lead story in the New York Times reported a study by the CIA that reviews major terrorist operations run by the White House around the world, in an effort to determine the factors that led to their success or failure, finally concluding that unfortunately successes were rare so that some rethinking of policy is in order.

"The article went on to quote Obama as saying that he had asked the CIA to carry out such inquiries in order to find cases of 'financing and supplying arms to an insurgency in a country that actually worked out well. And they couldn’t come up with much.'

"So he has some reluctance about continuing such efforts.

"There were no cries of outrage, no indignation, nothing.

The conclusion seems quite clear.

"In western political culture, it is taken to be entirely natural and appropriate that the Leader of the Free World should be a terrorist rogue state and should openly proclaim its eminence in such crimes.

"And it is only natural and appropriate that the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and liberal constitutional lawyer who holds the reins of power should be concerned only with how to carry out such actions more efficaciously.

"A closer look establishes these conclusions quite firmly."

Noam Chomsky So the US is a terrorist rogue state - what s wrong with that - Stop the War Coalition

So...stopping terrorism is as simple as stopping the practice of terrorism.

How would that impact the US economy?

Proof that if one looks hard enough one can find, or interpret something to justify their world view...... Yup folks, ya can't make this shit up.

You can always stay asleep; waking would probably only make things worse, in your case.
"The three examples highlighted in the New York Times report of US terrorism are only the tip of the iceberg.

"Nevertheless, it is useful to have this prominent acknowledgment of Washington’s dedication to murderous and destructive terror operations and of the insignificance of all of this to the political class, which accepts it as normal and proper that the US should be a terrorist superpower, immune to law and civilized norms.

"Oddly, the world may not agree.

"An international poll released a year ago by the Worldwide Independent Network/Gallup International Association (WIN/GIA) found that the United States is ranked far in the lead as 'the biggest threat to world peace today,' far ahead of second-place Pakistan (doubtless inflated by the Indian vote), with no one else even close."

Noam Chomsky So the US is a terrorist rogue state - what s wrong with that - Stop the War Coalition

Everyone needs a hobby........

 

[dilloduck]

According to arguably "the world's most important public intellectual"...
"On 14 October 2014, the lead story in the New York Times reported a study by the CIA that reviews major terrorist operations run by the White House around the world, in an effort to determine the factors that led to their success or failure, finally concluding that unfortunately successes were rare so that some rethinking of policy is in order.

"The article went on to quote Obama as saying that he had asked the CIA to carry out such inquiries in order to find cases of 'financing and supplying arms to an insurgency in a country that actually worked out well. And they couldn’t come up with much.'

"So he has some reluctance about continuing such efforts.

"There were no cries of outrage, no indignation, nothing.

The conclusion seems quite clear.

"In western political culture, it is taken to be entirely natural and appropriate that the Leader of the Free World should be a terrorist rogue state and should openly proclaim its eminence in such crimes.

"And it is only natural and appropriate that the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and liberal constitutional lawyer who holds the reins of power should be concerned only with how to carry out such actions more efficaciously.

"A closer look establishes these conclusions quite firmly."

Noam Chomsky So the US is a terrorist rogue state - what s wrong with that - Stop the War Coalition

So...stopping terrorism is as simple as stopping the practice of terrorism.

How would that impact the US economy?

It would destroy our economy.

 

[deltex1]

According to arguably "the world's most important public intellectual"...
"On 14 October 2014, the lead story in the New York Times reported a study by the CIA that reviews major terrorist operations run by the White House around the world, in an effort to determine the factors that led to their success or failure, finally concluding that unfortunately successes were rare so that some rethinking of policy is in order.

"The article went on to quote Obama as saying that he had asked the CIA to carry out such inquiries in order to find cases of 'financing and supplying arms to an insurgency in a country that actually worked out well. And they couldn’t come up with much.'

"So he has some reluctance about continuing such efforts.

"There were no cries of outrage, no indignation, nothing.

The conclusion seems quite clear.

"In western political culture, it is taken to be entirely natural and appropriate that the Leader of the Free World should be a terrorist rogue state and should openly proclaim its eminence in such crimes.

"And it is only natural and appropriate that the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and liberal constitutional lawyer who holds the reins of power should be concerned only with how to carry out such actions more efficaciously.

"A closer look establishes these conclusions quite firmly."

Noam Chomsky So the US is a terrorist rogue state - what s wrong with that - Stop the War Coalition

So...stopping terrorism is as simple as stopping the practice of terrorism.

How would that impact the US economy?

I thought Obabble is the worlds most important intellectual?

 

[georgephillip]

So...stopping terrorism is as simple as stopping the practice of terrorism.

How would that impact the US economy?

The Military Industrial Complex would say to thanks but no thanks.

The reason they are in Syria trying to remove Assad - a non-Jihadist - is because the MIC needs a Jihadist in power , accuse him of being a bogeyman and then steal our money, our youth and our Liberties fighting him. The "War on Terror" is perpetual.

.

.

It's not called the Long War for nothing. Redrawing the borders of a New Middle East originates in the mid-1980s when a rival superpower would have prevented the level of mass killing we are seeing today.

The US neo-cons simply resurrected an Israeli plan authored by Oded Yinon which called for breaking up Iraq and Syria into a series of sub-states modeled after Lebanon:

"The Western front, which on the surface appears more problematic, is in fact less complicated than the Eastern front, in which most of the events that make the headlines have been taking place recently.

"Lebanon's total dissolution into five provinces serves as a precendent for the entire Arab world including Egypt, Syria, Iraq and the Arabian peninsula and is already following that track.

"The dissolution of Syria and Iraq later on into ethnically or religiously unqiue areas such as in Lebanon, is Israel's primary target on the Eastern front in the long run, while the dissolution of the military power of those states serves as the primary short term target.

"Syria will fall apart, in accordance with its ethnic and religious structure, into several states such as in present day Lebanon, so that there will be a Shi'ite Alawi state along its coast, a Sunni state in the Aleppo area, another Sunni state in Damascus hostile to its northern neighbor, and the Druzes who will set up a state, maybe even in our Golan, and certainly in the Hauran and in northern Jordan.

"This state of affairs will be the guarantee for peace and security in the area in the long run, and that aim is already within our reach today.14"

The Zionist Plan for the Middle East by Oded Yinon translated and edited by Israel Shahak

Ya know, instead of focusing on cherry picked historical facts in a vacuum ya might try incorporating the whole to include history and culture from the beginning of Islamic expansion to the present, including western and eastern involvement plus psychological and sociological factors of all peoples involved. Granted that would completely negate your postulation in the OP...........

If you had to choose between Islam and the USA as the greatest purveyor of violence in the world TODAY, which would you choose?

 

[georgephillip]

According to arguably "the world's most important public intellectual"...
"On 14 October 2014, the lead story in the New York Times reported a study by the CIA that reviews major terrorist operations run by the White House around the world, in an effort to determine the factors that led to their success or failure, finally concluding that unfortunately successes were rare so that some rethinking of policy is in order.

"The article went on to quote Obama as saying that he had asked the CIA to carry out such inquiries in order to find cases of 'financing and supplying arms to an insurgency in a country that actually worked out well. And they couldn’t come up with much.'

"So he has some reluctance about continuing such efforts.

"There were no cries of outrage, no indignation, nothing.

The conclusion seems quite clear.

"In western political culture, it is taken to be entirely natural and appropriate that the Leader of the Free World should be a terrorist rogue state and should openly proclaim its eminence in such crimes.

"And it is only natural and appropriate that the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and liberal constitutional lawyer who holds the reins of power should be concerned only with how to carry out such actions more efficaciously.

"A closer look establishes these conclusions quite firmly."

Noam Chomsky So the US is a terrorist rogue state - what s wrong with that - Stop the War Coalition

So...stopping terrorism is as simple as stopping the practice of terrorism.

How would that impact the US economy?

It would destroy our economy.

Unless it's true that climate change represents a threat to our national security. In which case, the Pentagon could just as easily provide millions of Green jobs for unemployed Americans.

 

[georgephillip]

According to arguably "the world's most important public intellectual"...
"On 14 October 2014, the lead story in the New York Times reported a study by the CIA that reviews major terrorist operations run by the White House around the world, in an effort to determine the factors that led to their success or failure, finally concluding that unfortunately successes were rare so that some rethinking of policy is in order.

"The article went on to quote Obama as saying that he had asked the CIA to carry out such inquiries in order to find cases of 'financing and supplying arms to an insurgency in a country that actually worked out well. And they couldn’t come up with much.'

"So he has some reluctance about continuing such efforts.

"There were no cries of outrage, no indignation, nothing.

The conclusion seems quite clear.

"In western political culture, it is taken to be entirely natural and appropriate that the Leader of the Free World should be a terrorist rogue state and should openly proclaim its eminence in such crimes.

"And it is only natural and appropriate that the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and liberal constitutional lawyer who holds the reins of power should be concerned only with how to carry out such actions more efficaciously.

"A closer look establishes these conclusions quite firmly."

Noam Chomsky So the US is a terrorist rogue state - what s wrong with that - Stop the War Coalition

So...stopping terrorism is as simple as stopping the practice of terrorism.

How would that impact the US economy?

I thought Obabble is the worlds most important intellectual?

He's a legend in his own mind.

 

[Ringel05]

So...stopping terrorism is as simple as stopping the practice of terrorism.

How would that impact the US economy?

The Military Industrial Complex would say to thanks but no thanks.

The reason they are in Syria trying to remove Assad - a non-Jihadist - is because the MIC needs a Jihadist in power , accuse him of being a bogeyman and then steal our money, our youth and our Liberties fighting him. The "War on Terror" is perpetual.

.

.

It's not called the Long War for nothing. Redrawing the borders of a New Middle East originates in the mid-1980s when a rival superpower would have prevented the level of mass killing we are seeing today.

The US neo-cons simply resurrected an Israeli plan authored by Oded Yinon which called for breaking up Iraq and Syria into a series of sub-states modeled after Lebanon:

"The Western front, which on the surface appears more problematic, is in fact less complicated than the Eastern front, in which most of the events that make the headlines have been taking place recently.

"Lebanon's total dissolution into five provinces serves as a precendent for the entire Arab world including Egypt, Syria, Iraq and the Arabian peninsula and is already following that track.

"The dissolution of Syria and Iraq later on into ethnically or religiously unqiue areas such as in Lebanon, is Israel's primary target on the Eastern front in the long run, while the dissolution of the military power of those states serves as the primary short term target.

"Syria will fall apart, in accordance with its ethnic and religious structure, into several states such as in present day Lebanon, so that there will be a Shi'ite Alawi state along its coast, a Sunni state in the Aleppo area, another Sunni state in Damascus hostile to its northern neighbor, and the Druzes who will set up a state, maybe even in our Golan, and certainly in the Hauran and in northern Jordan.

"This state of affairs will be the guarantee for peace and security in the area in the long run, and that aim is already within our reach today.14"

The Zionist Plan for the Middle East by Oded Yinon translated and edited by Israel Shahak

Ya know, instead of focusing on cherry picked historical facts in a vacuum ya might try incorporating the whole to include history and culture from the beginning of Islamic expansion to the present, including western and eastern involvement plus psychological and sociological factors of all peoples involved. Granted that would completely negate your postulation in the OP...........

If you had to choose between Islam and the USA as the greatest purveyor of violence in the world TODAY, which would you choose?

I wonder why you said Islam and not Islamic radicals......... Uuummmmmm..........

 

[gipper]

So...stopping terrorism is as simple as stopping the practice of terrorism.

How would that impact the US economy?

The impact on the economy would be most beneficial for the people...since nothing is as costly and wasteful as war, on a nation's economy.

Problem is, the elites love war. It makes them rich and even more powerful. No doubt they are working feverishly, at this very moment, to gin up a nice big war.

 

[georgephillip]

So...stopping terrorism is as simple as stopping the practice of terrorism.

How would that impact the US economy?

The Military Industrial Complex would say to thanks but no thanks.

The reason they are in Syria trying to remove Assad - a non-Jihadist - is because the MIC needs a Jihadist in power , accuse him of being a bogeyman and then steal our money, our youth and our Liberties fighting him. The "War on Terror" is perpetual.

.

.

It's not called the Long War for nothing. Redrawing the borders of a New Middle East originates in the mid-1980s when a rival superpower would have prevented the level of mass killing we are seeing today.

The US neo-cons simply resurrected an Israeli plan authored by Oded Yinon which called for breaking up Iraq and Syria into a series of sub-states modeled after Lebanon:

"The Western front, which on the surface appears more problematic, is in fact less complicated than the Eastern front, in which most of the events that make the headlines have been taking place recently.

"Lebanon's total dissolution into five provinces serves as a precendent for the entire Arab world including Egypt, Syria, Iraq and the Arabian peninsula and is already following that track.

"The dissolution of Syria and Iraq later on into ethnically or religiously unqiue areas such as in Lebanon, is Israel's primary target on the Eastern front in the long run, while the dissolution of the military power of those states serves as the primary short term target.

"Syria will fall apart, in accordance with its ethnic and religious structure, into several states such as in present day Lebanon, so that there will be a Shi'ite Alawi state along its coast, a Sunni state in the Aleppo area, another Sunni state in Damascus hostile to its northern neighbor, and the Druzes who will set up a state, maybe even in our Golan, and certainly in the Hauran and in northern Jordan.

"This state of affairs will be the guarantee for peace and security in the area in the long run, and that aim is already within our reach today.14"

The Zionist Plan for the Middle East by Oded Yinon translated and edited by Israel Shahak

Ya know, instead of focusing on cherry picked historical facts in a vacuum ya might try incorporating the whole to include history and culture from the beginning of Islamic expansion to the present, including western and eastern involvement plus psychological and sociological factors of all peoples involved. Granted that would completely negate your postulation in the OP...........

If you had to choose between Islam and the USA as the greatest purveyor of violence in the world TODAY, which would you choose?

I wonder why you said Islam and not Islamic radicals......... Uuummmmmm..........

Neither Islam nor radical Islamists are invading and occupying countries on the opposite side of the planet from their homelands. The US is. Which is the greater threat to world peace?

 

[georgephillip]

So...stopping terrorism is as simple as stopping the practice of terrorism.

How would that impact the US economy?

The impact on the economy would be most beneficial for the people...since nothing is as costly and wasteful as war, on a nation's economy.

Problem is, the elites love war. It makes them rich and even more powerful. No doubt they are working feverishly, at this very moment, to gin up a nice big war.

They have already ginned up a nice Long War, and they've convinced many Americans to pass the bill along to their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.

Maybe we need a DEATH TAX on all war profits?