tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post4892451591863702234..comments2024-03-18T19:00:03.047-04:00Comments on SleuthSayers: Know Your TerroristLeigh Lundinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07921276795499571578noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-41273740438658870142015-11-23T19:06:37.833-05:002015-11-23T19:06:37.833-05:00Education is always the best solution to ignorance...Education is always the best solution to ignorance. Thanks, Jan.Melissa Yihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01714047923814805076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-46380926934507813092015-11-23T10:44:53.176-05:002015-11-23T10:44:53.176-05:00Thanks for this concise summary. Much appreciated....Thanks for this concise summary. Much appreciated.Barb Goffmanhttp://www.barbgoffman.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-461473578982357752015-11-23T09:00:45.102-05:002015-11-23T09:00:45.102-05:00Great summary. Here's an off the cuff analogy...Great summary. Here's an off the cuff analogy:<br />Al-Qaeda is sort of like Maoist China (i.e., had a leader with goals, however crazy); <br />ISIS/DAESH is like Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, who wanted to kill everyone who appeared Western, intelligent, etc. and set up a purified society based on some imagined past, somewhere between medieval and prehistoric; <br />Boko Haram is like too many other guerilla groups that started out with an ideology and ended up realizing that this was a great way to get guns! women! wealth! What allowed them to grow into such a dangerous group is that they're in a country fueled by corruption, rich in oil, in Africa. The West hasn't done well with African slaughters. (Or Asian, see Pol Pot above.)<br /><br />Eve Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03015761600962360110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-92221793462223710762015-11-23T08:40:24.136-05:002015-11-23T08:40:24.136-05:00A good synopsis and good links.
Our disastrous inv...A good synopsis and good links.<br />Our disastrous invasion of Iraq and the lavish Saudi support for a radical and puritanical Sunni form of Islam ought to be added to the list.janice lawnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-37345401366956083522015-11-23T06:24:20.341-05:002015-11-23T06:24:20.341-05:00Ditto what Leigh said.Ditto what Leigh said.Paul D. Markshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15466234708772287399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-33563369678521524472015-11-23T00:57:36.955-05:002015-11-23T00:57:36.955-05:00Excellent summary, Jan. I know a number of politic...Excellent summary, Jan. I know a number of politicians who should be reading this.Leigh Lundinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07921276795499571578noreply@blogger.com