,Re: In case no one else saw this

[Thomas Eckhardt]

I certainly agree with you that Newton's law is not applicable here. I 
merely share, obviously, the author's opposition to the "they hate us 
for our freedoms" narrative which is now being trotted out again in 
order to deflect from our own atrocities.

Thanks for the link. I will check it out.

Am 17.11.2015 um 21:40 schrieb Robert Mahnke:
> I'm not sure I disagree with that article, Thomas, but I also don't
> think it has a lot of explanatory force.  And when the article says,
> "The inconvenient truth is that geopolitics is governed as much as is
> physics by Newton’s third law of motion: 'For every action there is an
> equal and opposite reaction'" it is obviously wrong.  ISIS can't bomb
> Paris in the fashion that France is bombing it, so it turns to
> asymmetric warfare, but the way that it acts is also obviously a
> function of its particular ideology, which is to say its religious
> doctrines.
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