Actually, that is exactly what is being done.  Replacing theocratic and totalitarian swamps with democratic gardens will boost trade and productivity, and drain the morasses of oppression and poverty which spawn jihadis - plus, as per capita income goes up, birth rate goes down.   But meanwhile, the jihadis that are already around are busily trying to kill as many infidels (translation, you and me) as possible.  While the proper policy of long-term swamp-draining is proceeding apace, some short-term shooting of the alligators presently biting us in the ass is still necessary.

 

 

 

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There is a point in evolutionary terms to having your mind captured into a

rabid mode the way we have seen on this thread.

 

It was a good idea when hominids lived in little hunter-gatherer

tribes.  That's something we did for a *long* time,  in fact

hunter-gatherer cultures took over the whole planet.

 

However, having your rational abilities suppressed by being in "war mode"

may not be an effective approach at higher levels than hunter-gatherer

culture.  "War mode" and trying to kill off the males in competing tribes

resulted in about 90% of the Southwest corn farmers dying and their

ecological niche being left open.  The few groups that didn't die out were

still killing each other more than 200 years later.

 

The basic problem that is generating all those Islamic warriors is falling

income per capita over much of the Islamic world. That in turn is the

result of slow productivity growth and fast population growth.

 

A rational view of what is needed to get the population into line with

productivity sounds far more rabid and is certainly less politically

correct than the worse rantings we have seen here.

 

Keith Henson

 

 

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