Multiple Bombings Brussels

[bigpaul]

That's the way BP. If we leave them alone, they will have nothing to complain about. In your dreams!

its too late now RS, the damage is already done.
just think about it for a moment, if the positions had been reversed and we had been invaded by a foreign army, we would want to fight them wouldn't we? I mean we as in this country.
we should have left them alone to develop at their own rate, but as we all know its all about oil isn't it?

[bigpaul]

well now we ARE being invaded.

[River Song]

The IS and AQ problem is nothing to do with the west invading. That's what we have been trained to swallow. AQ was active in Iraq well before one western boot was upon their soil.

[NorthernRaider]

Islam has been trying to conquer, convert or kill in Europe since the 7th century, early if you look at how the Christian Crusaders pissed them off by not being willing to share places like Jerusalem with them.

[CharlesHarris]

Comment from former CIA Director Michael Hayden:

"This attack was not surprising. It was somewhere between expected and inevitable. It’s right in that band of what we expected—the country that was targeted, the specific facilities that were targeted, even the success of the attacks in terms of the relative damage it caused. All were within the range of things I think we knew were coming at us.

What made it happen now was simply the arrest of one conspirator last week; I think that prompted his co-conspirators to shove this one out the door. But it had already been underway in terms of serious planning. It was reasonably sophisticated, sequential, well timed, well carried out. All that happened because of the arrest is they accelerated their timeline...

We need to have the adult conversation about Islam in the modern world and not pretend this has nothing to do with Islam. And remind some other folks, who may or may not be running for president, that this is not about all of Islam, and it’s certainly not about all Muslims. But there is a space in the middle where we do need to talk about things and not run away from them...I do believe we need to take the fight to the enemy and inflict losses on him and make him far more concerned about his safety than focused on ending ours."

[Lightspeed]

Agreed Charles, especially with your last para.

The difficulty is that the enemy is very small in number and very well dispersed among an otherwise law-abiding and a population that is well assimilated within Europe..... whereas we are hugely in the majority and present soft targets across the continent.

Its horrible to see the atrocities committed this week, but in terms of numbers, it was insignificant. The significance has been the effect on public awareness and concern. And that's exactly the reason terrorism takes place.

Of course the German Chancellor's hunger for low cost labour under the guise of refugee relief is aiding and abetting our enemies by providing a Trojan Horse for the extremists to get within the European castle walls. The good thing for UK is that it is not part of the Schengen agreement, so have its own castle gate and defences.

[CharlesHarris]