Posted on Aug 21, 2015
SSG Adam Wyatt
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The reason I ask is that ISIS, ISIL, IS, whatever it is this week is gathering followers and/or supporters from an ideology. You can cut off the head but the "gospel" is still there. Is it too late? Is this going to be a generational war?
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LTC Yinon Weiss
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It already is a generational war. The US soldiers going to Afghanistan were 4 years old when 9/11 happened. Also, people often forget that the WTC was originally bombed in 1993.

I'm not sure if you can ever truly defeat an idea, but history has shown that you can defeat the people behind the idea (i.e. Nazism). Whether it's worth it or not is a different matter.
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CPT Jack Durish
CPT Jack Durish
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Nazism wasn't defeated. Remember the Nazi's were the national socialist party of Germany. Is socialism dead? Of course not. But the Nazi's are dead (sort of).
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LTC Yinon Weiss
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CPT Jack Durish - That seems like a bit of a technically ambiguous argument. First, yes it is true that Nazis had the word socialism in their party name, but that was hardly the primary policy which the world opposed or for what they stood for. Second, it was not socialism that we fought in WWII (otherwise we would not have allied with Communist USSR), but it was Nazism which we sought to destroy, and I would say that we (the Allies) did a pretty good job of that.
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CPT Jack Durish
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No we didn't fight to end socialism. Too bad. We should have. Look at the trouble it went on to cause us (and still is causing)
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SSG Leo Bell
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This war in the Middle East since the beginning of time. They come up with all types of names for themselves but they all are doing the same thing. Which is killing people for crazy reasons who have nothing to do with there cause. They kill children, women, elderly people. Which is crazy because it's just genaside anyway you look at it. Islam doesn't teach what they are doing.
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Capt Seid Waddell
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SSG Leo Bell, apparently THEY think it does.
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SSG Leo Bell
SSG Leo Bell
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Capt Waddell, they think it does but the only thing that happens it's allot of people end up dead and nothing ever get resolved.
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SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S.
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nope...
people die .. ideas don't
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SSG Leo Bell
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Your very right
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