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Originally Posted by RIJIMMY
I'm sure you now this but many Nazis were EXTREMELY intelligent people. Also, Germany was a slum after WW1, the Nazis brought back many social services, a robust economy and reinstated the pride of the German people. That being said, they were HOMOCIDAL MANIACS bent on the genocide of a race, not just jews, all non-aryans they could get their hands on! Dont you think that everytime webed bom German cities, more kids signed up for the Hitler youth? How did we stop them, neogitation? By understanding the root cause of Nazism? We beat them by destroying them. By eliminating their ability to operate.
The same need to be done for radical Islam. We cannot use teh argument taht everytime teh enemy si confornted, it will bring new recruits, that is an element of all confrontations. It cannot be used as a strategy for defeating the enemy.
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Thanks for the well thought out remarks.
Again, I'm not advocating we don't confront the enemy. There are real terrorists and terrorist infrastructure that we should target and take out...
But the parallel with Nazi Germany is not accurate in my opinion.
I'm not a student of Nazi history, but I'd wager that the Hitler Youth were a propaganda tool driven from the top down, more than the product of a willing public.
In my opinion, the biggest flaw in your thinking (to be perfectly blunt
) is the notion that terrorisim is driven by homocidal or irrational behavior.
A good book to read that goes into this in detail is "Imperial Hubris: Why the West is loosing the War on Terror" by Michael Scheuer.
-spence