White House: Donald Trump's proposal to ban Muslims "disqualifies"* him

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Lawlight said:

binary solo said:

But was he actually wrong? I partly blame the Western world for the attacks in Paris, all the way back to the end of World War 1, the Western World has made various screw ups in its handling of the lands of the Middle East which progressively lead to greater levels of animosity towards Western powers AND conditions ripe for the formation of extremist groups. It does take two to tango, and the West has been tangoing plenty when it comes to the people of the middle east.

So, the victims of those terrorist attacks are to be blamed here. Good to know how you think.

He didn't say that, unless you want to say those people are directly responsible for the incredible dumb decisions of their government over the past few decades. The Western world has to take a pretty big share of the responsibility for the creation of these groups. Hell many were trained by the west, then left to rott when no longer needed for political agendas, combine that with the massive civilian deaths in the region over the past few decades from allied bombings etc I don't know how you can not see some responsibilty lieing with our governments. piling more discrimination on top of the decades of mistreatment is not going to make the situation improve, if anything it will act as a rallying cry and increase their strength as even more alienated people join them.