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The chance of you getting hurt or worse in a terrorist attack is, thankfully, exceedingly remote. Therefore, to act and think in just blind, responsive, emotional terms is not necessary. Until the time that it is, it is imperative that our response is to study and understand - and eventually defeat them.
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Can't stop thinking about these sentences. Quick followups.
- When you say "study and understand", do you mean the rest of the entire world has to do this, or is it okay if a few really bright people at the state department do it? Because frankly "Friends" is finding a second wind this season with stronger writing, and I don't really have any extra time to devote to reading the Quran until maybe the Spring.
- If at the end of all this studying and understanding, we find that they have deeply-held but irrational beliefs that all the Jews and westerners should all be killed or enslaved, would it *then* be okay to inform them of our counter-opinion via JDAM? Or do we try UN sanctions.
- The small odds of me personally getting randomly killed in terrorism are somehow not a comfort. I would rather nobody get randomly killed in terrorism.