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The world is becoming immunized to the horrors of terrorism

If what occurred in Nice, France, on Thursday was a one-of-kind event, I’m certain the world’s response would be dramatically more powerful and intense. Who rents a truck with the intended purpose of driving it into a crowd of people celebrating a national holiday, with the intended purpose of running over and maiming as many as possible? Unfortunately, the world is becoming immunized to these horrors.

However unfashionable it is to bring up the ancient codes of chivalry in these micro-aggressed and progressive times, there remains in all minds that have not been reduced to captious putty, the idea of even self-proclaimed “warriors” killing women and children — innocent, defenceless and not at all complicit in the world’s woes — should shake us to the core. The act goes against all codes of honour in conflict and — regardless of how often it is breached — what has severed as a taboo in wars and conflicts throughout all history. Paris, London, Boston, Madrid, New York, Orlando, Jerusalem — it will soon be easier to name the cities not attacked than those that have been: always with the same markers, the screeching calls of Allah Akbar, and then — with a gun, bomb, pressure cooker or truck — they kill, wound and traumatize as many innocents as possible.


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Rex Murphy: The world is becoming immunized to the horrors of terrorism | National Post
 

darkbeaver

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Who rents a truck with the intended purpose of driving it into a crowd of people celebrating a national holiday, with the intended purpose of running over and maiming as many as possible?
A FF government/international bankers/agency Rex.

Rex is back in disinformation form.
The CBC should be shut down. They are not working for the citizens of this country.
 

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The world is becoming immunized to the horrors of terrorism

If what occurred in Nice, France, on Thursday was a one-of-kind event, I’m certain the world’s response would be dramatically more powerful and intense. Who rents a truck with the intended purpose of driving it into a crowd of people celebrating a national holiday, with the intended purpose of running over and maiming as many as possible? Unfortunately, the world is becoming immunized to these horrors.

However unfashionable it is to bring up the ancient codes of chivalry in these micro-aggressed and progressive times, there remains in all minds that have not been reduced to captious putty, the idea of even self-proclaimed “warriors” killing women and children — innocent, defenceless and not at all complicit in the world’s woes — should shake us to the core. The act goes against all codes of honour in conflict and — regardless of how often it is breached — what has severed as a taboo in wars and conflicts throughout all history. Paris, London, Boston, Madrid, New York, Orlando, Jerusalem — it will soon be easier to name the cities not attacked than those that have been: always with the same markers, the screeching calls of Allah Akbar, and then — with a gun, bomb, pressure cooker or truck — they kill, wound and traumatize as many innocents as possible.


mo


Rex Murphy: The world is becoming immunized to the horrors of terrorism | National Post
mentaldouche is already immune,

but understandably so for someone so perennially dumbfounded.
 

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Rex Smurffy is a shill for the establishment. The Pentagon and the CIA kill millions of innocent women and children and that doesn't bother you. As terrorist organizations, the Pentagon and CIA are light years ahead of Islamic extremists. But I'm sure your brand of disinformation appeals to brain dead Trump supporter types. Carry on.

Rex Smurffy is a shill for the establishment. The Pentagon and the CIA kill millions of innocent women and children and that doesn't bother you. As terrorist organizations, the Pentagon and CIA are light years ahead of Islamic extremists. But I'm sure your brand of disinformation appeals to brain dead Trump supporter types. Carry on.

Wally: Thanks for weighing on the side of brain dead Trump supporters. I'm sure the Donald appreciates your contribution.
 

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Rex is simply stating that the world used to react to events like this differently. The code of chivalry ensured that the innocent were left alone.

The code worked with local conflicts and between neighbouring kingdoms. It doesn't work so well on a global scale.

The difficulty lies in how the world reacts to events like this. There was a time when rogue kingdoms or evil rulers were attacked, punished or killed for their misdeeds. In the modern world, that solution is more difficult to achieve.

In days of yore, the code protected the innocent from harm and allowed the guilty to be punished. With the odd exception, even the bad guys followed the code. Today's evil doesn't care who gets hurt or how much damage is caused. In short, the end justifies the means.

The conflict? Should the West, in order to rid the world of ISIS and the evil that's rife in the Middle East, react in the same or harsher manner? How does the West build concensus with China and Russia in order to stop the constant killing? The solution is obvious to all the powers, nuke the Middle East, but who wants to be the one to pull the trigger? This solution will kill a lot of people too. It's a giant, global conundrum. A planetary version of surgeons debating how much tissue to remove in order to stop the gangrene.

There isn't much of a moral dilemma, but there is a financial one. Can you harvest and use oil extracted from a nuclear wasteland?

Time will decide. How long can you poke the world with a stick before it gets fed up and definitively takes action?
 
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"No one knows how to stop these attacks — certainly not how to stop them over any quick period of time. We do, however, know that the evasion of naming them for what they are is not the route to travel. Swaddling ourselves in earnest hashtags, movie stars or first ladies taking grim-looking selfies while holding up the latest pasteboard slogans (“Bring Back our Girls”) are pathetic, excusatory diversions from any real call to action. Singing hymns to diversity, or the endless search for “root causes” and “explanations” — when the plain cause and explanation is usually present out of the mouths and declarations of the killers themselves — is no way forward."

Right on the mark, Rex.
 

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"No one knows how to stop these attacks — certainly not how to stop them over any quick period of time. We do, however, know that the evasion of naming them for what they are is not the route to travel. Swaddling ourselves in earnest hashtags, movie stars or first ladies taking grim-looking selfies while holding up the latest pasteboard slogans (“Bring Back our Girls”) are pathetic, excusatory diversions from any real call to action. Singing hymns to diversity, or the endless search for “root causes” and “explanations” — when the plain cause and explanation is usually present out of the mouths and declarations of the killers themselves — is no way forward."

Right on the mark, Rex.
So, calling them "extreme Islamic radicals" or "filthy ragheads" or whatever will help?