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Terrorism expert Bruce Hoffman tells Syracuse University audience how to win the war on terrorism
©2008 Syracuse Online, LLC. All Rights Reserved. ^ | February 23, 2008 10:11PM | Posted by Ngoc Huynh

Posted on 02/24/2008 11:11:42 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines

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To: Publius6961
Never mind.
With a rousing audience of 50, the facts speak for themselves.
Leave it to the MSM to make a Mt. Everest out of a grain of sand...

What a royal crock; ten minutes of my life I will never get back...

21 posted on 02/24/2008 11:36:17 AM PST by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

I agree that we are handling terrorism wrong. But to sit down and continue to talk about it won’t solve a dam thing. The US needs to go on the attack and do it now and don’t quit until the task is completed. We also need to bring all JAG officers back within our borders.


22 posted on 02/24/2008 11:36:48 AM PST by RC2
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

What does this expert in obamaics prosper per speech?


23 posted on 02/24/2008 11:37:04 AM PST by bvw
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To: My dog Sam; misterrob; Chieftain

i AGREE WITH YOU, My dog sam.

It is not very smart to just have a knee jerk reaction to this researcher. I agree we need more arab linguistics teachers, etc.I also agree to understand the enemy’s culture helps one to understand the enemy. We want to understand them to deal with them, not to join their culture or “surrender”.

However, there is a researcher who points out that the “poor, unemplyed youts “ is not the whole picture. He says it is more about when a country or culture reaches a turning point where there are too many young men who have no respect within their culture because they may be jobless or in some other way have no status. also, the delineation of the small terrorist groups follows more the gang structure than some global outgrowth.

Let’s not just react...let’s discuss and study our enemy!


24 posted on 02/24/2008 11:37:59 AM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (We need a troop surge in Philly and Newark!)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Americans need to understand why people become terrorists

Thinking Americans know why, you idiot!

So many Degrees, yet no clue!

25 posted on 02/24/2008 11:38:54 AM PST by PROCON (Dems=You can Fool Some of the People all of the Time--Abraham Lincoln)
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To: YOUGOTIT

“Start by rounding up William Ayers and Bernadrine Dohm who were making
bombs to kill the people at Fort Dix in the 1960s.”

Background on Ayers and Dohrn for the younguns’ in the forum:

Bill Ayers
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2169

Bernardine Dohrn
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2190


26 posted on 02/24/2008 11:42:10 AM PST by VOA
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This Hoffman dude is the reason why we arent winning...too many anti-Semitic pro-Islamic wimps who still think the enemy is the US and Israel.


27 posted on 02/24/2008 11:43:46 AM PST by UCFRoadWarrior (You know what they call a McCain supporter? A Liberal)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

I don’t need to understand someone’s culture or language after they have made their intentions clear with 2 airplanes intentionally crashed into 2 perfectly magnificent buildings costing the lives of 3000 non-combatants.

You cannot reason with a rattlesnake in your garden.....


28 posted on 02/24/2008 11:52:28 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: rbg81

” Terrorists tend to recruit members from countries with a poor economy, polarized government and high unemployment”

Of course, this doesn’t really explain why so many of the Muslim terrorists from England had college educations, were MD’s, etc.


29 posted on 02/24/2008 11:56:38 AM PST by phothus
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

The Ann Coulter solution is better.


30 posted on 02/24/2008 12:03:14 PM PST by SeaHawkFan
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To: UCFRoadWarrior
This article goes on and on about ‘knowing’ the terrorists, but never mentions ‘Muslims. It is impossible to understand anything about Islamic terrorists if you don’t, or won’t, explore the religious basis of the terror.
31 posted on 02/24/2008 12:12:18 PM PST by Old North State
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To: SeaHawkFan
The Ann Coulter solution is better. - Very true!
32 posted on 02/24/2008 12:13:48 PM PST by Free_at_last_-2001 (A country can survive its fools, but it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: Eye of Unk
Sounds like a long winded didactic way of saying “We Surrender”.

Yep...

1- identify

2- locate

3- annihilate

KISS-- keep it simple, stupid
( Not you, my Friend, the over-educated fool named above... )

33 posted on 02/24/2008 12:14:45 PM PST by backhoe (Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
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To: backhoe

That too. I also have another suggestion. Why don’t we learn Arabic and spend as much time infiltrating and subverting in their countries as the communists and Islamists spend in our country? We need to learn patience too. We need to compromise their society.


34 posted on 02/24/2008 1:33:38 PM PST by WVNan
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To: WVNan
I also have another suggestion. Why don’t we learn Arabic and spend as much time infiltrating and subverting in their countries as the communists and Islamists spend in our country? We need to learn patience too. We need to compromise their society.

Good ideas.

35 posted on 02/24/2008 1:36:19 PM PST by backhoe (Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
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To: backhoe

The mainstream media does such a fine job of brainwashing Americans, just think what they could do if they turned that power against the enemy.


36 posted on 02/24/2008 1:48:14 PM PST by WVNan
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Terrorists tend to recruit members from countries with a poor economy, polarized government and high unemployment, Hoffman said.


Sure. Like Hani Hanjour, who was heir to a horse ranch in Saudi Arabia but decided to crash Flight 77 into the Pentagon anyway.

Maybe what Hoffman meant to say was, “Liberals tend to recruit members from schools that crank out mush-heads, like you kiddies here at Syracuse.”


37 posted on 02/24/2008 1:57:37 PM PST by CZB
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To: rbg81

Brue Hoffman has been overpaid for decades yet he still peddles drivel for a living—this is a wonderful country.


38 posted on 02/24/2008 3:25:48 PM PST by the anti-mahdi
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To: the anti-mahdi

Yeah, I kinda got that impression. It doesn’t matter if the data doesn’t support the hypothesis—the hypothesis sounds so good that it MUST be true.


39 posted on 02/24/2008 3:45:43 PM PST by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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