She was referring to educating the masses who have little choice but to follow the "teachings" of extremists since they don't know any other way. In particular the females who are subjugated and kept intentionally ignorant.
For those unfamiliar with who Malala is, she was made one of Al Qaida's most wanted at the age of 14 because she dared to go to school and try to encourage other girls to better themselves. They ambushed her school bus one day and shot her in the head, obviously intending to kill her. She survived and continues to devote her life to bring education and equality to women around the world.
Osama bin laden came from wealth and privilege and had a western education. Ignorance does not cause terrorists; hatred does. They hate us because we are not Muslim. They also hate and kill other Muslims because they are not the same kind of Muslims. Anyone who claims we just need to understand these people and simply "educate" them is beyond ignorant themselves. Op and others of this asinine mindset are dangerous to themselves and the rest of us if they end up in any position of power where they can try to implement their shear stupidity. The only way to combat terrorists is to send them straight to hell before they can do the same to us.
@guest- it’s “sheer” stupidity, “shears” are like scissors. But to your point, yeah. We should be careful who we listen to, there are some really dumb people who like to spread dangerous opinions they are unqualified to make..... also... “the only way to combat terrorists is to send them straight to Hell before they do the same to us...”? Are you... planning to go to Hell? As an FYI people don’t go to hell for doing good things, so that may be a red flag on your life choices right there. But... it’s a fine sentiment to stop terrorists anyway, the hard part is telling who exactly is a terrorist. It may in fact be better to try and stop terrorists before anyone needs to be “sent to Hell” by maybe... minimizing the conditions we know breed terrorism? Like South American terrorists, or European terrorists? Was your answer to the IRA that all Catholics world wide followed a fundamentalist and violent religion and that stopping Catholicism would stop the troubles? Or was it mostky political?
@Chakun- very true. Plenty of terrorists world wide including Christian terrorists. Some of the greatest mass murderers in recorded history were Athiest terrorists who seized control of their country through terrorist revolution and became legitimized as a nation state. Hell, terrorism as we know it today in much of the world was created by the west. Western nations providing arms and educations in asymmetrical warfare, destabilizing the governments of countries formally either stable, or involved in region civil wars and this creating not just the perfect recipe for terrorists but also the perfect breeding grounds and legitimate reasons to hold grudges against western powers. It’s funny that not so long ago the American people demanded a withdrawal from Vietnam because we didn’t belong there, and the “scorched earth” tactics of attacking civilian targets because the population was mixed between combats and civilians who weren’t easily distinguished was deemed reprehensible....
... it is largely albowleged that one of the causes for the failure to stop the NVA was that allied tactics had a larger effect to solidify the hatred towards the allies through wanton destruction of neutral or even friendly civilian assets and persons. Destroying one small ammo dump or killing 4-5 enemy combatants didn’t do much good when as an effect of collateral damage you could turn 30+ people against you by destroying their homes or causing 2-10x the casualties among non combatants. A “blanket” approach that falls short of total genocide doesn’t help when you can level city after city and instead of breaking an enemies resolve you just cement their hatred and will to resist and get revenge. We have already set the groundwork to be fighting 50-100+ years of anti western sentiment based off our actions in the last 10- with no tangible victories that we can say have made us any safer. So we need to find ways to keep people safe from terrorism without creating more wars for our kids.
Kill a man and his children will never forgive you. Kill a man's children and you won't live to regret it. Neither are things that our government has learned in 50 years of invading places
@bethorien- true.
@famousone- it’s a good sentiment, and higher level commanders can often be disconnected- but it doesn’t quite work. Try walking on your hands and shooting with your feet to see what I mean. It may seem like a good idea when your feet are tired, but in practice it doesn’t work as planned. Your legs each do the walking, but of you let them decide where to go, the right one walks left and the left one walks right, and they get in the way. The brain has to tell them where to walk. A good brain uses its eyes to look ahead, sure this path seems rough to the legs, but the legs can’t see that the other path leads over a cliff up ahead. The brain needs to listen to the legs as they feel the terrain, the brain should adjust when things are off balance or going poorly. There are a lot of bad brains on many organizations. But in a modular chain of command- military or otherwise, no job exists for no reason. The unit commander can’t egfectively track and direct a unit if...
They’re focused down the sights of a rifle engaged full on in a fire fight. They can’t dedicate 100% of their attention to engaging in combat (unless things have gone real south...) because they have men to lead and actions to coordinate. Likewise, a squad leader can’t be directing their squad while coordinating with every other squad, and sadly sometimes one thing is of greater stategix importance than what is needed by one squad or unit or platoon. They may be focused all out on taking a target that to them and their operations is huge, but from far above zoomed out it’s more important for them to do something else that will support another action or divert enemy attention or resources. So yeah- some asshole in an office isn’t always the best guy for the job, but that means a need for better commanders and communication.
I’ll agree that way too many people with no place in tactics have too huge an input on tactical decisions. I understand budget and oversight and those things- but I do agree 100% that it’s deplorable how so many people use conflict as a tool for political or financial games. There are men and women in the line of danger while pencil d$cks want to jerk around and play games with their lives. The CIC should set an overall objective, it should be approved by Congress, the top brass should submit their projections and requests, everyone should agree on the overall parameters and limitations as well as any secondary concerns to victory, and once all that is lined up and the people have weighed in on the funding it should be go time. It shouldn’t be politicians maneuvering the military to make their jobs easier or support their election but the military executing its strategy within the scope set forth for the campaign and politicians working at home to support and enable them to succeed.
For those unfamiliar with who Malala is, she was made one of Al Qaida's most wanted at the age of 14 because she dared to go to school and try to encourage other girls to better themselves. They ambushed her school bus one day and shot her in the head, obviously intending to kill her. She survived and continues to devote her life to bring education and equality to women around the world.
I'll kill the terrorist son of a bitch who takes issue with them.
What was Osama Bin Laden graduate in?
@famousone- it’s a good sentiment, and higher level commanders can often be disconnected- but it doesn’t quite work. Try walking on your hands and shooting with your feet to see what I mean. It may seem like a good idea when your feet are tired, but in practice it doesn’t work as planned. Your legs each do the walking, but of you let them decide where to go, the right one walks left and the left one walks right, and they get in the way. The brain has to tell them where to walk. A good brain uses its eyes to look ahead, sure this path seems rough to the legs, but the legs can’t see that the other path leads over a cliff up ahead. The brain needs to listen to the legs as they feel the terrain, the brain should adjust when things are off balance or going poorly. There are a lot of bad brains on many organizations. But in a modular chain of command- military or otherwise, no job exists for no reason. The unit commander can’t egfectively track and direct a unit if...
They are sending us to war, let us win.