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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsShould the CIA send chocolates, roses, and greeting cards to terrorists?
For example, the greeting cards could be inscribed with the words "America loves you."
Obviously, it depends on what response you anticipate. Would terrorists lose their hatred of America, or would they simply pray for God to impose a restraining order on a creepy suitor?
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)basket weaving?
I think the OP is a very odd post too.
WTF does it mean?
TheWraith
(24,331 posts)saras
(6,670 posts)JHB
(37,161 posts)...basically, to pry something loose.
FarLeftFist
(6,161 posts)Maybe they just need a hug.
Capitalocracy
(4,307 posts)who was tortured by the U.S. after being falsely accused of terrorism over a family feud... long story. He said that basically what they do at Taliban madrassahs is teach the kids that if they memorize the Quran (in Arabic, which they don't speak) they will get whatever it is they desire, which in most cases is a car or an Xbox or something like that. Then when they finish school and have the whole book memorized (and know very little of anything else), they don't get what they wished for. So then they say well, you don't have that because the U.S. and the nonbelievers took it from you. But if you blow yourself up, you'll get all that and more in Heaven.
It takes years to brainwash a suicide bomber, and if we'd been dropping Nintendos instead of bombs and spending money on real schools instead of funding the terrorists, it would have gone a long way toward undermining that ideology.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)Raytheon might have to develop a new Love Drone.
Dragonbreathp9d
(2,542 posts)babylonsister
(171,090 posts)T S Justly
(884 posts)USCIA
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