Security Summit to be held in DC!

How do you "prevent violent extremism"?

really.

How?

Seems to me the only prevention would be somehow knowing through some kind of testing who is going to be extreme. Maybe there is some DNA aspect that shows a trigger to the acceptance of a exploding vest or murderous behavior. I think it's more important to establish a way to keep knuckleheads like this out of office.


Mr. Wrabbit don't hold back next time tell us how you really feel. 

Another thought.. Obama isn't the only leader and shaper of public opinion to be thinking of it in the same self serving terms. I could swear some of the media coverage had a striking resemblance to post 9/11 coverage. Then a while ago, I started seeing it outright referred to that way. France and Europe's 9/11 to fight the war on terror.

Ugh..We don't really have to go through this whole sequence of bad ideas a second time..do we? I hope the public over there remains standing as they are now, if the Governments start to go as ours did. Europe doesn't need another extended bout of fascism, and we've had about our fill of our own 'saving from ourselves'.

lol... Syria and Yemen. Oh you raise such a good point. The legal Government of Yemen is and has been under siege when not in outright threat of losing their nation for years now. It's the other front against the House of Saud by the Al Qaeda extreme. The Yemeni franchise of AQ also puts out Inspire Magazine..which is what I heard one reporter describe as a 'lifestyle' magazine for terrorists. having seen the first several issues..I'd agree. That is a good way of putting it. Yemen has flash that Iraq and Afghanistan groups didn't. So....Yemen? THAT one makes a bit of sense ..if someone assumes these criminals in France did more than sign up for the 'train me' and 'forget me' package at some point in the past.

Syria tho? Oh.. That IS a doozy..... We have a Government who HATES Al Qaeda (Kinda like US?) but we hate that Government even MORE than we do Al Qaeda itself ..so we'll fight them BOTH at once in their OWN nation, mind you, while saying it's for freedom and the Syrian people. (How do we fight BOTH sides of a civil war at once? Don't ask me...but there ya go).

Perhaps..Just maybe..If France looked at this as a terrible criminal action ..since it took no more skill, training or financial support than an American 18 year old with their first gun show AK on a rampage...they might consider this insane "No Go Zone" B.S. Paris has had for a long time now. That is where cops wouldn't even GO ..to leave policing to the Islamic communities that dominated areas. Some might call that allowing a nation within a nation, in a small sense ..and it sure isn't like "Chinatown" for culture and character in U.S. cities. Perhaps..just maybe..THAT appeasement to a minority at the expense of the majority is the thing to reconsider. Perhaps that, more than any terrorist planners in Yemen...is what killed so many people here.

Equal is good..Unequal to be treated better or above laws of a host nation? now now...bad things happen...like people taking that concept WAYYY too far. Like shooting journalists for writing cartoons.

@marlingrace,
Oh, you are absolutely right about the difference between dissent and terrorist tactics. I couldn't agree with you more. Then again, machine gunning people, down to children, for trying to climb a wall or climb a fence was murder in the first degree, in my opinion. The Soviets called it maintaining the Berlin Wall right up to the end. I think the KGB probably didn't have our sense of distinction between dissent and terrorism against the State.

The problem is...That last point is coming to be an accurate thing we can say about our own nation these days. That line of response to protest vs. violence is getting all blurry to where the same units turn out with the same heavy weapons. 

@wrabbit2000,
"I think the KGB probably didn't have our sense of distinction between dissent and terrorism against the State."


This is very accurate, I would say Russia, or the Soviet Union was one large listening post for just this reason. Interestingly enough we now have achieved the same, the difference being we save every bit of it digitally. If anyone thinks they are just saving the meta data, they are fools. Just look at the amount of storage they have, the super computer to run it, and the amount of water consumption required to cool it. KGB or Homeland Security you call it, to that add Fusion centers.