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Originally Posted by Chico23231
It's been going on for a couple years and in the last year it's be prominent. Why is the us and the world late to these atrocities? These guys are monsters, why have we been sitting on our hands? Poor job by Obama and his administration
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Well that's an issue that's complicated, and way over my head
But to take a stab at it... generally speaking I think many countries are simply tired of getting involved. I think there's an unwritten level of turmoil in the region that is tolerated and the desire is that it never rise above that level, to the point of the rest of us having to intervene.
A desire to contain the issue and hope it just doesn't impact the rest of us.
In addition to that you have a lot of people who think the problem is not related specifically to Islam, but is a problem related to a tribal area. Lack of education, lack of a meaningful economy, lack of a stable government, etc all lead to these types of groups forming and having a strong following. You can count me in that group. It's not an easily solvable problem. I don't think the general public of the 'western' countries have the stomach required to actually go this route. It would require a huge commitment of resources, both money and military lives, to do so and I just don't think we have it in us. And at this point in my life I'm not entirely sure it would even be worth it, assuming there was a large chance of success. For an idea of what I'm talking about see - Afghanistan. It's a shame the focus of our media is always on the negative, there's a real success story going on in Afghanistan right now and we should be focused on helping them so all their sacrifice (and ours) isn't in vein and they don't devolve into the situation Iraq is in.
As I grow older I'm realizing it may actually be an unsolvable problem; that being that the only real solution would be to decimate the entire area. That is probably an untenable position in the global community and will be so until that area does something so egregious to the rest of the world that we can all finally say - enough is enough. I don't know that the terrorist organizations will ever actually achieve that, and I certainly don't hope for it, I've seen enough disgusting and traumatic terrorists attacks for my life time in my opinion.
But yes... this administration has, in my opinion, proven itself inept when it comes to foreign policy. To the point where it almost seems like our president simply doesn't even care... I don't know how you can say some of the things he's said (no strategy?) without simply not caring enough to involve yourself. Not to mention things said by people that have left the administration or military over the last few years...