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> I too find acts of violence upsetting, but it's dangerous to buy into the propaganda around the word terrorism, since it's used to justify abandoning diplomacy and dehumanizing the enemy.

And it's used to curb the rights of your own citizens.

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Exactly. I haven't figured out the true aim of terrorists. Unless it's to give license and cause for government to do outrageous things. Which seems to cause more problems for society than the initial terrorism. So maybe that is the aim.

Here's one of their strategic guidebooks, 'The Management of Savagery/Chaos'[1]. They want to cause America (and Europe) to exhaust their military resources in the Middle East and cause the states there to fail. In failed states, they are able to establish a caliphate, as the strongest armed force on the ground. So far we are fulfilling their goals quite well with our useless war, and France is now going down the same path.

[1] https://azelin.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/abu-bakr-naji-the...

> So far we are fulfilling their goals quite well with our useless war, and France is now going down the same path.

Is France fulfilling Daesh's goals by destroying their administrative, economic and military infrastructure? What kind of action or inaction would go against Daesh's goals in your opinion?

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