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Originally Posted by scaeagles
But I still don't see terrorists blowing things up because they are poor. You mentioned earlier that you don't see sheiks strapping bombs to themselves, but you don't see a whole lot of homeless Americans doing it either. You don't see suicide bombings in poverty stricken central American nations or in the huge blighted areas of cities like Rio de Janeiro.
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Yes, but you have drive by shootings, indiscriminate killings, drug problems, etc. - the ideology sells becasue they are disenfranchised, usually economics is a big componant of that - we seldom want to move to a position of less comfort.
If this is a battle of ideology, I'm not sure a military approach is the most successfull. Pop culture may be a far greater weapon and propaganda must be our tool. We have to make the jihadists look foolish and silly, and a waste of good people's time.