I fixed the title...
trumad (40,076 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027344670
OK pacifists...what would you do about ISIS?
Ideas?
floriduck (228 posts)
104. I'd prefer to know what the prior war mongers want to do, based on the results of their prior decision mistakes. Do we make the same dumbass mistakes and expect different results? I think there's a term for that.
1) pass the buck.
al bupp (1,541 posts)
3. This is a really good question...the answer to which I, for one, am at a loss to give.
2) stand around looking stupefied.
KingCharlemagne (4,625 posts)
6. Im not a pacifist although I generally favor resolving disputes through non-violent means. I would round up Bush, Cheney and the entire Junta and offer to turn them over to Daesh to face justice, probably as part of some larger diplomatic rapprochement with Daesh.
3) surrender.
Ed Suspicious (5,924 posts)
7. What is the root cause of ISIS? I would go back in time and fix that ****er of a problem.
4) go back in time and kill mohammad in the womb. (not terribly pacifist but they like abortion so I will let the answer stand)
Star Member geek tragedy (52,314 posts)
41. Abraham. And colonialism. nt
5) well... wiping out the JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! is always a DUmp answer....
Initech (50,141 posts)
108. Money is the root cause of ISIS. I said it in multiple threads and I will say it again: we cut off ISIS' cash flow and we stop them for good. The question is though is who is supplying ISIS with their ill gotten gains?
6) ... ????
Kip Humphrey (2,517 posts)
9. Translation: Now that we war hawks ****ed it up yet again, what are you "pacifists" going to do to fix it???
How about you war hawks don't cause ISIS in the first place?
7) Blame someone else.
femmedem (2,218 posts)
10. I'm not a pacifist, but my first step would be communication. Even in marriage counseling, you learn to reflect back the point of view of the other person and find some part that makes sense, setting aside the rude, unskilled ways that the other party uses to get their point across.
Usually whoever is least angry listens first, because in that moment they have the greatest capacity to listen. But they get their turn to speak as well.
Until you understand what may be a rational anger motivating an irrational response, you can't solve the problem.
8) 'marriage' counseling?
backscatter712 (23,492 posts)
19. Not exactly a pacifist, but I prefer an intelligence-based response.
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Infiltrate their organizations, assassinate virtually all of Daesh's leadership, cut off their money, turn them against each other and let the head-choppers tear themselves apart.
Something like what happened to the Ku Klux Klan. They're a shadow of what they used to be. Go to a Klan meeting, and half the people there will be FBI informants.
9) play video games in our mothers' basements.
restorefreedom (5,832 posts)
27. if pacifists had been in charge all along, isis would not exist,since cheneys war for oil never would have happened.
the best way to deal problems is to prevent them.
10) deny reality
Donald Ian Rankin (12,659 posts)
43. If pacifists had been in charge all along, as a European Jew, I wouldn't exist either. N.T.
Nye Bevan (21,713 posts)
34. What we did to Jihad John was almost perfect.
Targeted, precise, got the right guy, and with minimal collateral damage (assuming that the reports are true).
So I think we need more like this. Spend less on older style warfare and more on infiltration, intelligence, intercepting communications, anything that will help us take out the bad guys without thousands of "boots on the ground" and civilian casualties.
11) keep doing what we are doing.
Jeroen (723 posts)
38. That's like asking 'what would you do to clean up the mess we've created?'
Like so many, I knew that the WMD was just an excuse to go to war.
Like so many, I knew it would destabilize the ME and have grave consequences.
Like so many, I knew that countless lives would be lost as a result.
This is the moment for us, pacifists, to point our finger at YOU.
Not the other way around.
12) what they do best- whine like little bitches.
Comrade Grumpy (13,083 posts)
45. Support a negotiated ceasefire and settlement in Syria. Support Syria and Iraq in their fights against ISIS.
13) in other words- do nothing.
Crystalite (13 posts)
54. Cut our military budget in half, take care of our own people, jobs, families, infrastructure.
Stop being cop to the world, but be supportive in peaceful and diplomatic ways.
Instead of asking how might we put out the fires, we should ask what role we played in setting them.
Over and out.
14) commit suicide
Hoyt (21,873 posts)
58. I would handle them like the international KKK, and incentivize governments to help within their borders.
jeepers (174 posts)
77. Unilatel disarmament
Close the armament industry in this country and work to interdict arm shipments from other countries
Take all the profit out of war. Work for clean water food and families worldwide.
But you're not serious are you.
cantbeserious (9,009 posts)
105. The First Step - Eliminate Neocons From The World Stage - HRC Must Withdraw As A Candidate
eom
15) kill all your enemies [who don't happen to be ISIS]
mwrguy (2,141 posts)
119. Drop all support for murderous regimes like Israel and Saudi Arabia
For starters.
eta: I am not a pacifist.
16) stab our allies in the back
