Shit is happening

[Kosheh]

so they apparently found this was planned in belgium, brussels and some other city with a weird name and 6-7 arrests have been made there
and apparently french planes have started bombing raqqa so yeah

oh - nice. good that they're getting to the bottom of things. i mean, i don't wanna get into a full convo about like, how to actually fight daesh here but like
it's good that France is retaliating quickly and swiftly, though.  


[spoiler=oops! im ranting. hello i have an opinion but im not sure it fits here.
it's cool if the topic shifts this way - I mean, shit is happening and it wouldn't hurt for us all to talk about and weigh in on world events for once]though i feel like it's gonna be like


more physical force --> more terrorism done under governments' nose
more civilian deaths --> more bombings
more bombings --> higher chance of Syrian civilian deaths (they might deliberately bomb terrorist cells etc. but Daesh can always say "uh nope, you just bombed a bunch of women and children. way to go you immoral crusaders, you")
more "civilian" deaths --> more anti-West propoganda and Daesh's influence spreads, and calls for violence abroad

and the cycle repeats. :/ 
Like, you can't go to war on an idea (our last president said "We're declaring a war on terror" and then spent trillions of dollars getting revenge for his papa and didn't fix anything) and waging war against an ideology seems a bit draconian (Daesh is assuming they're finishing what the Crusades started - we don't want that idea to be realized, either) so it's like - we've gotta find a way to actually eradicate extremism in that area

We've gotta convince people that like, Daesh is dumb and stupid. We'd be better off making a reality show that pokes fun at their extremist beliefs but at the same time shows that not all Muslim people are extremists. It's hard to be afraid of a bully if you call him out in front of everyone [/spoiler]