pharmaboy
Eats Squid
Waleed Aly looks for an excuse anywhere he can find it - in this instance, it's that we should call a spade a rake, because the spade is proud to be called a spade.Direct quote.
"What we don't know yet is if the attack was planned, ordered or funded by ISIL's leaders in Syria because the problem is, this is what ISIL do. They take credit for any act of terrorism on Western soil so they appear bigger and tougher than they actually are."
Like I said, the part about them taking credit for everything is very true, but eluding that ISIL might not have been responsible is optimistic. Even if not ISIL, possibly another branch or equivalent with the same ideaology. I have no idea about the size of ISIL or other terrorist organisations, but to pull this off, I'd say it is a mistake to underestimate them as Waleed did. This is a real threat and although it is essential in the fight against, unfortunately unity alone is not going to fix it. It's just scoring free public brownie points. No one has a real solution otherwise we wouldn't have this problem.
That's just delusional - he makes the argument that if you reject them as the instigators it will some how disempower them. What? These guys are nutbags, they are just as likely to put more effort into making the next attack even worse and making sure they take responsibility early on.
He further argues that getting angry is what they want so you shouldn't, and that they want to widen the war and get you to react so you shouldn't ?
Think about the last one again - that naturally progresses to the only proper action is no action , ie the ultimate in passivity. so they either grow bored and stop, or they win - not really good options