I don’t normally pay any attention to what the Lightbringer says, but this often-repeated statement is getting on my nerves.
“ISIL is not an existential threat to us” is only true if by “us” you mean “The United States of America as a corporate entity.” That’s true. No number of ragged-ass Allah-praisers, no matter how suicidally destructive, will ever succeed in killing the Great Satan. Really, they can’t do anything but strengthen the Great Satan.
But if you use the word “us” with the normal meaning of “you and me,” then a threat to end our existences is in fact literally an existential threat. To us.
Just saying.
I’ll add that no giant government program will ever protect you from it. Here’s what maybe could…
It’s not something I worry about personally for obvious reasons. Nobody’s going to waste a bomb on smelly old me. But your mileage might quite rationally vary and your best defense is a constant acceptance that you are on your own.
Funny you went there because I kept thinking the same thing. I think what’s happening is that mr. President has spent most of his life in the collectivist mindset. It matters not if a few poles get sploded, as long as mother Russia is secure. In fact, it may actually take a few poles getting sploded to ensure the safety of mother russia. It’s all part of the diseased mindset of the collectivist.
Also, as it wete, I find it curious that a handful of deaths from gun violence is an existential threat, whereas a handful of deaths from Islamic terrorism is not. Couldn’t be his hidden biases showing through… nah…
*proles. Autocorrect.
🙂 Kinda wondered why you were picking on the Poles so specifically, there, Goober…
I don’t worry about terrorism because it’s about as much of a threat in the real world as being struck by lightning. There are far more dangerous things to worry about, like taking a shower or crossing the street.
I don’t worry about terrorism, because I’m a hermit in the desert.
But it occurs to me that those people at the Boston Marathon, or in that music hall in Paris, probably weren’t worried about it either. Though they likely would have been, had they known how the rest of their day was going to go.
Stay away from crowds-Ol’ Remus. You are right Joel, those people pose no danger to you if you stay away from crowded areas.
Midwest Mike says:”… those people pose no danger to you if you stay away from crowded areas.”
Well, except for the occasional random beheading.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/09/police-moore-muslim-beheading-had-nothing-to-do-with-terrorism-just-a-random-workplace-beheading/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/isis-plan-to-behead-random-member-of-the-public-in-sydney-thwarted-by-australian-police-9739844.html
Ken, I agree, but only to a point. It isn’t a threat to me, but it’s definitely something we should do something about. Ignoring it as a non-issue isn’t a good option.
Why? I don’t know about you, but I ignore non-issues as non-issues all the time. I never wear scuba gear and a helmet in the shower, even though drowning or slipping and cracking my skull are both much greater dangers than terrorism. I only do something about things that aren’t non-issues–for example, I look both ways before crossing the street because getting run over is far, _far_ more serious a danger than any of the previously mentioned rarities.
The only people who really have to worry about being specifically targeted by terrorists are paramedics and firefighters in Muslim countries, because of the Evil Empire’s policy of trying to murder them when they respond to a drone strike with a second drone strike.