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31 October - The Russian plane brought down likely by a bomb in Sinai, Egypt

9 November - 6 people killed in a mass shooting in Amman, Jordan.

12 November - +40 people killed in two suicide bombing attacks in Beirut, Lebanon

13 November - +20 killed in suicide bombings in Baghdad, Iraq

13 November - +120 people killed in a multiple attacks in Paris, France

We're having a very busy calendar this month for violence and terrorist attacks.

On a more serious note, it's very worrying if all these ops were committed by ISIS or any off-shoot organizations and even more worrying if there was any type of central command or coordination between those seemingly unrelated attacks. We'll be in deep shit.

EDIT: Added the Iraq line item and the epiphany

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The only way to stop an ideology is to supplant it with another, better one. I am very sorry that Turkey and the EU did not get very far with the baby steps to accession talks that they took last decade. I believe both parties, the Middle East, and its neighbors would have greatly benefitted from the cultural bridge that would have created, and the PR boost to moderate Islam vis-a-vis Wahabism. It also would have been a great engine of economic growth to both sides, which is actually rather central to the question of terrorism.

As it now stands, we must create a true diplomatic partnership with Iran, and the million-dollar question, figure out what to do about Bashar Al-Assad. Above all, we must avoid the mistakes that plagued the invasion of Iraq.

I will also be waiting with very keen ears to hear the reactions and policy positions of the U.S. presidential candidates, particularly the former Secretary of State.

I am also very interested to see if, during the upcoming climate change talks, any attention will be paid at all by anyone to the link that has been made between a worsening climate and sparks in the Arab Spring.

Finally, the draconian surveillance bill passed by the French this year did not help to prevent these attacks. So it's certainly time to re-evaluate the pros and very large cons of these dragnets.[1] We have yet more evidence that they do not work. __ [1] http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/24/9030851/france-surveillanc...

Don't forget when al-Shabab killed 147 college students in April in Kenya. They were allied with al-Qaeda but were being courted by ISIS.

and hundreds more every month in Middle East. What can we do to stop ISIS from brainwashing these people?

Injecting a chip inside a human being and terminate the rogue one when one goes bad? But that power can be abused and nobody wants a chip implanted inside their own body. What can we do!?

Stop funding "moderate" rebels. I read a few years ago that the US has trained 10.000 rebels in Jordan and sent them into Syria.

Who exactly are these rebels and who are they fighting for right now? Does anybody even know?

According to http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/1... there are already trainees betrayed the U.S. and are probably on ISIS side. On the front of Afg and Iraq wars, there have been cases in which U.S. trained Afg and Iraqi soldiers stood by the insurgents.

And Saddam Hussein was funded by U.S. to rebel against Iran in the 60s, 70s.

1. Stop screwing with other countries. No false wars, no state engineering, no exporting democracy.

2. Stop protecting the terrorist regime in Saudi Arabia.

3. Stop trying to control the world. There's no hegemony without blowback.

4. Stop being a safe haven for laundered money from the third world (looking at you City of London). Let that money be invested in third world infrastructure.

5. Stop toppling secular dictators. Saddam, Gaddafi, Assad, Bhutto, Mossadegh... spot the pattern here. This needs to stop.

Start with these 5, then we'll move on. You are making the mistake of thinking that the US gives a shit about terror, btw. Read about how foreign policy makers (people like Kissinger, Brzezinski, Stowcroft) think. They don't give a shit about blowback, they want to maintain hegemony. Terror is just a useful tool to keep public opinion in check.

For more on point 1, see Bitter Lake by Adam Curtis http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02gyz6b (if you are in the UK, if you are outside there are likely other ways to see - http://m.imdb.com/title/tt4393514/ )

That Russian plane carried 224 human beings - in many cases these were entire families spanning three generations. There were more than 25 children killed. Thanks for objectifying the tragedy. It's only a plane, after all, right?

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