BleedBurgundy
10-12-2011, 12:17 PM
What are we going to do? Keep them in prison for spousing anti-American sentiment? Dedicate resources to monitor their activities after they get out? American prisons have always been training grounds for mischievous deviants. From these articles one thing is crystal clear to me, terrorism is a law enforcement issue not a military issue.
You can't control people's beliefs and will, only the way you live your life.
Exactly... let's try being a less shitty country with less shitty policy and then reap the rewards of less people wanting to blow us up.
Alvin Walton
10-12-2011, 12:43 PM
Let them out of jail and drop them off in the middles east.
At 20,000 feet.
That Guy
10-12-2011, 01:47 PM
well, the US prison system has always been a place where petty crooks go to become pros and network. A more work camp/vocational training type of system would at least allow those without means to be guaranteed some sort of skillset for an honest living, and those that don't want to behave... well, solitary or a prison factory line.
RedskinRat
10-12-2011, 01:53 PM
Not what I meant by Uh Oh...you'll see
I'll stay out of this one, my original point stands.
Slingin Sammy 33
10-12-2011, 01:55 PM
From these articles one thing is crystal clear to me, terrorism is a law enforcement issue not a military issue.Has to be a balanced approach. LE can't reach onto foreign soil to disrupt terrorist activities that are state sanctioned or sponsored. LIMITED (Spec Ops, etc.) military engagement has to be the answer here. There needs to be open intel at high levels between DoD & Federal LE community.
You can't control people's beliefs and will, only the way you live your life.Agree 100%.
Lotus
10-12-2011, 03:55 PM
Has to be a balanced approach. LE can't reach onto foreign soil to disrupt terrorist activities that are state sanctioned or sponsored. LIMITED (Spec Ops, etc.) military engagement has to be the answer here. There needs to be open intel at high levels between DoD & Federal LE community.
Agree 100%.
You are on the money, Sammy. It seems to me that fighting terror requires a three-pronged approach:
1) Education. Banning religion is not only unConstitutional, it also is impractical. But religion can be directed towards more wholesome ends, especially given the reality that wholesome resources already exist in the Islamic world.
When education fails (as it sometimes does in non-terror settings, too):
2) Law enforcement should be the first recourse. At its heart terrorism is a problem for the justice system, as Saden indicated.
When law enforcement is impossible or impractical, then
3) Military action is required.
Slingin Sammy 33
10-12-2011, 04:52 PM
1) Education. Banning religion is not only unConstitutional, it also is impractical. But religion can be directed towards more wholesome ends, especially given the reality that wholesome resources already exist in the Islamic world.Great point. Hopefully with technology today the education you mention can be spread into areas where it was previously limited and help reduce the number of people that turn to radical Islam.