A liberal suggests that we should stop attacking countries that don’t espouse Western values: “, and leave them to evolve in their own way at their own rate. That policy is to invest the billions that the US is now spending on arms, to instead provide those countries with humanitarian aid — money and supplies for education, infrastructure-building, medicines, and civilian technologies and training in how to use them. No strings attached except that we need to be able to audit to ensure the money and technologies are used for their intended purposes. Nothing to be paid back. In fact, for countries whose foreign debt to us is crushing them, making them economic slaves to us, we need to write that debt off. Goodwill is the only dividend we need.
If we did this, there would be nothing for terrorists to react to. ”
I am not sure that the solution really is as simple as that. I wish it was, but I fear it isn’t.
This poster was right though when he said elsewhere that there is no absolute protection in a democratic nation against terrorist atrocities.
I am inclined to put more energy into praying for our security forces and police and for peace. There is certainly little else that I personally can do.
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