What can democracies do to prevent extremist violence?
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Jenny The Great ⭐
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Extremist violence is often planned in secret and carried out by surprise. A well-funded national (as opposed to international) intelligence service is probably the most effective solution for any particular nation.
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bostjan the adequate 🥉 The best-funded intelligence agency in the world in 2001 did nothing to stop the deadliest terror attack in US history. The only reason 25% of the attack failed was because of civilians. Any idea for the explanation of that fact? -
www.bible-reviews.com Sure. Ignoring that there were more faults in our several agencies at that time than present, the fact is that even today the U.S. is unable to stop all extremist attacks. They continue to happen (though large-scale ones such as that have not happened since then, thank God). Even a police state and martial law are not proof against all such attacks.
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bostjan the adequate 🥉 Okay. Stopping all extremist attacks is the goal, but some acceptable amount of failures is to be expected. However, to somehow be 100% ignorant to 911, as both the FBI and Executive office claimed to be, whilst even the state intelligence agency of Algeria (which had nothing to do with the attacks) was trying to tip off the US, is very difficult to accept as a random oversight, no?
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www.bible-reviews.com I think the oversight in that case was systemic rather than random. Or: the combination of both, with the realization that random oversights were probably occurring frequently and just normally did not have such dire consequences. I also - for example - would argue that the "oversight" that allowed the OK City bombing - if random - was similarly not atypical, and similarly was characteristic of an ongoing problem in the "detection system". We could add the WTC basement bombing that preceded the WTC catastrophe. The system was flawed. Hopefully the system has improved considerably since then (and it seems to have done so)...but realistically I don't expect it to be perfect.
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