Re: Sam Harris: How political correctness, religion & lying are complicit in the rise of Donald Trum
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"The point, is that the failure of western politicians to deal with the
threat posed by radical Islam has created a vacuum to be filled by the
likes of Donald Trump."Cyan, you think our politicians have not dealt with radical Islam? I
think the truth would be they have over dealt with it. It is a political
football that they joyously kick around and Sam is making a living on
that. Second, in case you missed it we've been running an ongoing,
nonstop, endless war on radical Islam.If you want to say guys like Affleck and Sam Harris and all their loony
back and forth have created an opening for a guy like Trump to
fill...sure, I agree with that. There is some truth in that. Failure to
deal with radical Islam has not been the problem though. We've already
carpet bombed parts of the world to "deal with" them and the truth is
when we do that it just makes things worse. I'm married thanks to the CIA and radical Islamists slaughtering
Christians and Hindus in Pakistan in the late 1950s. We've been "dealing"
with them for a long time. How do you think we should deal with them?
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
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"The point, is that the failure of western politicians to deal with the
threat posed by radical Islam has created a vacuum to be filled by the
likes of Donald Trump."Cyan, you think our politicians have not dealt with radical Islam? I
think the truth would be they have over dealt with it. It is a political
football that they joyously kick around and Sam is making a living on
that. Second, in case you missed it we've been running an ongoing,
nonstop, endless war on radical Islam.If you want to say guys like Affleck and Sam Harris and all their loony
back and forth have created an opening for a guy like Trump to
fill...sure, I agree with that. There is some truth in that. Failure to
deal with radical Islam has not been the problem though. We've already
carpet bombed parts of the world to "deal with" them and the truth is
when we do that it just makes things worse. I'm married thanks to the CIA and radical Islamists slaughtering
Christians and Hindus in Pakistan in the late 1950s. We've been "dealing"
with them for a long time. How do you think we should deal with them?
–--
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
