‘You can’t defeat an ideology with a bullet’
Nov 16, 2015, 10:57 AM | Updated: 12:23 pm
"You can't bomb your way out of this," KIRO Radio's John Curley said. "This is an ideology that needs to be defeated. You can't defeat an ideology with a bullet." (AP)
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It’s going to take a lot more than carpet bombings to shatter the extremist group that took responsibility for killing 129 people in Paris.
To destroy ISIS, the supporters need to be inoculated, sort of like polio, KIRO Radio’s John Curley says.
“You can’t bomb your way out of this,” he told co-host Tom Tangney. “This is an ideology that needs to be defeated. You can’t defeat an ideology with a bullet.”
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In order to stop ISIS in its tracks, the people who support and fight from the Islamic radicals can no longer believe in the efforts, Curley explained.
John Curley:The reason we were able to stop polio is because we inoculated the people.
Tom agreed. It is an ideological issue and just bombing ISIS targets might not be the permanent solution.
At the same time, however, Curley believes ISIS’ land grab method needs to be halted as well.
JC: Land is their big thing … these guys are about taking more land.
Though both Tom and Curley believe the attacks in Paris were horrible, Curley wonders if support for these kinds of events have lost meaning. The ease at which people can show their support, like on social media, is making it “hallowed out.”
TT: There’s a kind of unanimity though.
JC:At some point it becomes empty. It’s the hashtag mentality.
TT:I thought the French flag on the Space Needle was a cool effect.
But what about all the other acts of violence going on in the world? Curley asked. People didn’t seem to care nearly as much about a plane full of Russians being blown up, or the double suicide attack in Beirut on Thursday that killed 40 people.
Hear more of Tom and Curley’s conversation here
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Tune in to KIRO Newsradio weekdays at 3pm for The John Curley Show.
