[SJackson]

Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

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[SJSAMPLE]

Nobody outside the Middle East has an answer. At some point, they’ll have to solve it for themselves. In the meantime, we’ll have to keep bombing them back to the 1800s because they cannot be trusted with technology.

[Carl Vehse]

Spy chief: ‘I don’t have an answer’ for Middle East [Clapper]

So, letting the U.S. be infested is okay with Clapper?!? Because, hey, "I don't have an answer"?

[Steely Tom]

“The U.S. can’t fix it. The fundamental issues they have — the large population bulge of disaffected young males, ungoverned spaces, economic challenges and the availability of weapons — won’t go away for a long time.”

Armed autonomous robots will eventually be employed to "fix it."

Those robots will contain software that - at first - enables them to repair each other. Eventually, that capability will be extended to where they can build new copies of each other.

Not too long after that, you get...

[Oratam]

The fundamental issues they have — the large population bulge of disaffected young males, ungoverned spaces, economic challenges and the availability of weapons . . . .

and Islam. You left out Islam.

[RoosterRedux]

The fundamental issues they have — the large population bulge of disaffected young males, ungoverned spaces, economic challenges and the availability of weapons — won’t go away for a long time.”

As long as islam is alive, it won't EVER go away.

[Capt. Tom]

Recent comments suggesting that foreign “free riders,” such as Saudi Arabia, aren’t pulling their weight to manage chaos around the globe, for example, have been scrutinized.

Saudi Arabia is a Wahhabi orientated country.(back to basics fundamentalists)

Saudi Arabia should be spreading chaos around the world in our Kafir nations, and anywhere else people do not recognize Islam the way it was practiced by Muhammed and the four Caliphs who succeeded him.

And that is what Saudi Arabia does in funding Mosques and Madrassahs all over the world. - Tom

[Psalm 144]

Genghis and Tamerlane had answers.

[V_TWIN]

“Things happen around the world when U.S. leadership is absent”

For almost 8 years now.

[Tax-chick]

Presumably he will soon lose his job due to his excessive engagement with verifiable reality.

[FrankR]

How about, they kill or maim one of ours - military or civilian - we kill 5,000 of theirs...EACH AND EVERY TIME.

[Boogieman]

If he can’t bring himself to say that Islam is a fundamental issue, he’s hopeless.

[9YearLurker]

No mention of ideology as the overriding problem? Or part of the problem at all?

[johniegrad]

“The U.S. can’t fix it. The fundamental issues they have — the large population bulge of disaffected young males, ungoverned spaces, economic challenges and the availability of weapons — won’t go away for a long time.”

And they've been present for a long time. It only seems worse because information is so easily obtained in the modern world.

They've been killing each other forever. There is no profit in taking up sides and creating a common external enemy for both sides to hate. Maybe Israel or Jordan but Saudi Arabia or Iraq? Or worse yet, working to overthrow stable (but evil) strongmen in Syria or Libya?

Our recent interventions have resulted in one disaster after another.

Time to rethink our role, if any, in the Middle East.

Oh, and let's stop trying to be the social services agency to the world ... disaffected youth and economic problems ... Judas Priest.

[AlaskaErik]

We do have the answer. We just need to be willing to use it.

[Comment Not Approved]

Come now, Clapper. I’m sure you can come up with another “Least untruthful” answer if you think about it.

[silverleaf]

Trump hadn’t called for the US to leave
That’s only half his quote
Trump has said if they want us to stay, and be the
world’s 911, they need to pay

Sounds like he is right on track
Wouldn’t it be nice if the press did accurate investigation
And corrected misstatements on the spot

[BitWielder1]

One thing I'm sure of, removing the one nation in the region that is NOT a source of Terrorism, will not eliminate Terrorism.

[G Larry]

Because his boss is on the side of the enemy and doesn’t want a solution.

[I want the USA back]

There’s no way to fix the hatred that is deliberately bred in islamic countries. The best we can do is keep the savages out of civilized countries, and we’re not doing it. bammy is bringing in a million or so of them.