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Originally Posted by Easy Goer Otis
My daughter is going to University in Paris. Fortunately, she was on break and took a road trip to Berlin yesterday. Not sure I want her to go back there. There will be a severe backlash by the nationalists. Things are going to get very ugly in the coming days.
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oh, wow...glad to hear she wasn't nearby. just a horrible thing to have happen. I will never, ever understand that process that drives people to do such things.
a few years back, my oldest was going thru a rough patch. one long discussion I had with him....I told him, what you're going thru now is a result of choices you have made. there are always consequences when you decide a path to take.
what have we, as a country, done? choices made by past administrations, and present, has the middle east where it is now...the upheaval, the violence, the terrorists, isis, the refufees. this is our fault.
now, it may have happened there anyway, when one considers the history of that region, especially during and since ww1, and then ww2, the end of empires in the first ww, the drawing of boundaries, the giving of land that wasn't really a euro powers place to give. but this recent stuff-we have to own this. and we, and the other nations so disposed, have to fix this. it won't go away on its own.
the question is, how?
the un? the arab league? a coalition? that ought to be interesting to try to get together, since nations over there might look at religious divisions as a larger issue than terrorism. sunni, Shiite, isis, al Qaeda...it's a nightmare.