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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (837447)	2/18/2015 6:52:29 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1577434

"Groups like al-Qaida and ISIL exploit the anger that festers when people feel that injustice and corruption leave them with no chance of improving their lives," Obama wrote in an op-ed article Wednesday in the Los Angeles Times. "The world has to offer today's youth something better." He's exactly correct, Ten. The despotic countries these young men live in don't offer them a future. AQ offered them a suicide vest and 80 virgins in Heaven, and it looked GOOD to them, idealistic in their own way. ISIS offers them a job that pays more than the no job they had, the opportunity to bravely kill 'infidels' and found the new Caliphate, while getting in on the ground floor of the power structure OF the new Caliphate. To them, it seems like a FAR better offer than AQ's. It's their countries that have to smell the coffee and start offering them a future other than ISIS, and fast. They'll need our help to do it. If you have some answer other than 'kill them all' I'd like to hear it.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (837447)

2/20/2015 8:03:42 PM

From: tejek

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Ted, I'm astounded at what Obama just said leading up to his "violent extremism" summit:

news.yahoo.com

"Groups like al-Qaida and ISIL exploit the anger that festers when people feel that injustice and corruption leave them with no chance of improving their lives," Obama wrote in an op-ed article Wednesday in the Los Angeles Times. "The world has to offer today's youth something better."

Really? As if we don't already offer them something better? As if we don't already give them a chance to improve their lives?

He's not talking about American youth exclusively. Can you expand your vision a little? It would help your understanding of what he is saying.

This is why Obama's rhetoric turns me off. He is never specific when it comes to the "hope" and "change" that he always talks about.

What exactly do we offer these youths who are in danger of turning to violent extremism? I already know the conservative answer, which is, "The promise not to kill you for becoming a terrorist," but what's the liberal answer? Jobs? Equality? Elimination of poverty?

I don't think any of that is going to resonate within the mind of an extremist.

So then do you think they are born that way? There is extremist DNA?