tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post8934640454257323569..comments2024-03-27T20:37:08.065+01:00Comments on Defence and Freedom: On responses to terrorismUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-75467119444912743992015-12-25T15:51:27.926+01:002015-12-25T15:51:27.926+01:00It certainly seems clueless, what Germany is curre...It certainly seems clueless, what Germany is currently doing. It is used to do some intervention, which do have quite a bad reputation in Germany. As such, it is longterm making interventions as normal for Germans as for people of the Anglosphere. I see it as a cultural approximation to the common way of acting and doing politics (intervening) of the Anglosphere, that had stalled for some time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-67397725564583810162015-12-11T14:17:54.568+01:002015-12-11T14:17:54.568+01:00Good text.
If only politicians treated terrorism ...Good text.<br /><br />If only politicians treated terrorism in what it really is: an act of crime instead of war. It is far more likely for a French citizen in 2015 to be a victim of "traditional" criminal homicide instead of terrorist one.<br /><br />Yet terrorism makes pretty much all of Europe to go wage war in Syria, while France is considered to have an exceptionally low rate of homicide.<br /><br />scip10Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-58210409368608012182015-12-11T04:55:31.184+01:002015-12-11T04:55:31.184+01:00Honestly, I don't see how for example flying a...Honestly, I don't see how for example flying a few recce flights with German Tornados over Syria could be part of some agenda. There's not even a noticeable benefit to the industry.<br />The German MoD my get a little bit additional attention, but that's actually against the interests of the chancellor who had the last say about this.<br /><br />There's very little "agenda" behind all this than possibly "keeping the perception that meddling in foreign countries is normal" alive. A long-held agenda was a good explanation for the Neocons' policies, not so much for Hollande or Merkel in regard to Syria.S Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03359796414832859686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-51607165021295974002015-12-10T22:01:34.558+01:002015-12-10T22:01:34.558+01:00Please stop giving cave dwellers a bad reputation....Please stop giving cave dwellers a bad reputation. The current politics are not their doing.<br />Shocking events are usually used to push for long held agendas and not for making ad hoc solutions to a problem. Persistemce of the Islamist threats will help enact a lot of üoöitical wishlists. Interestingly, an attack prevented by chance does not lead to similar wishlists to solve a re-occurring problem.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-1058172904064447752015-12-10T08:23:27.042+01:002015-12-10T08:23:27.042+01:00Military theorists have known since time immemoria...Military theorists have known since time immemorial that terrorism is mere theater, and no real threat to a stable nation (much less to a superpower). The inordinate obsession with terrorism was deconstructed by documentarys like 'the power of nightmares', but it hasn't done any made any impact on the population at large.kesler12https://www.blogger.com/profile/06730943788519488679noreply@blogger.com