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Mr Puggsly said:
curl-6 said:

Again, I doubt anybody here would deny that Islamic extremism is a major global problem.

But if all Jihadis disappeared overnight, the mass killings in the US would not just cease, because most of them aren't committed by Jihadis.

Fair enough, but these Jihadi attacks in the west are becoming a bigger issue because the west has failed to put the kibosh on Islamic extremist in the middle east.

But hey, the US doesent even bother to resolve gang violence and thats a vast majority of annual killings.

I don't think extremism can be so easily solved as just clamping down on regimes in the Middle East. Invading/bombing countries to kill terrorists tends to generate new ones to replace them. A kid's house is blown up by a wayward drone strike, he grows up hating the West, and as an adult blows himself up in a crowd of people in Europe. 

But that's a whole other topic.