Since I'm assuming you are referring back to my comments...
It's not about the soldiers, they are just people, and most of us now live in countries where guns in the hands of authorities are a commonplace sight, and the London Bridge attackers were all shot by armed police who are now often seen around London and elsewhere.
It's the fact that there is a
need to live in a 'state of emergency' and have the military on the streets in order to feel safe. That is what I am surprised that people are happy about.
Because military do not do civil law enforcement.
They are not.
And Terrorism is not a Civil Offense
Terrorism is an Military Act of Aggression where Military Equipment and Tactics are Used to Attack the Enemy Population and Infrastructure.
And thats why Terrorism is exactly what we have Soldiers for.
People need to Realize this.
ISIS is not some Drug Cartel which is out for Profit and which in essence is much weaker than the Police thus resorting to Covert Attacks to secure their Business and keep People including Police away.
Terrorist Attacks are not Assassinations Aimed to prevent Detection by Authorities or Scare Wittnesses and People from acting against them.
ISIS is an Hostile Country that Declared War on us.
And their Target is to Conquer us.
And to this End they use Terror Attacks and Sabotage to cause Damage and Fear amongst us.
ISIS Tactic is the same as what Churchill tried to do against Germany in WW2.
Break Enemy Fighting Spirit by Attacking Civilians instead of Facing the Enemy Army in the Field.
And we got pretty much four Choices here.
1.
We Ignore it. And Continue to pretend being unaffected. That will work but will also cause alot of Hatred against any sort of Islam and will cause Civil Unrest and Racism to continue being on the Rise.
2.
We give in to Racism. And thus throw out anyone not Firmly Accepting the Local Culture and abandoning Islam and Eastern Culture. As well as closing our Borders. This will prevent further increase of Nationalism but will cause massive Civil Unrest (morale issues and immigrant population as well as diplomacy) and also severely damage our Economy.
3.
We do it like the USA. Turning our Police and Intelligence into Para Military Forces which are effectively Soldiers in all but Name and which put the State under Surveillance to prevent Terrorism as well as shooting to kill when Dealing with Terrorism.
But that will mean just like the USA our local Law Enforcement will be heavily Militarized and Criminals will start to compete with that to Continue Business. Leading us to an Similar Situation as we got in the USA where Police Shoots 100 people daily.
4.
We stop with the Pretense of Grandeur. We come down from our high and mighty throne and start considering ISIS an actual Country which (as they factually did) declared War on us. And Deal with it once and for all.
Including that we do what we would do in any other War. And Protect our Installations and Populations against Military Strikes using our own Military until the Enemy has been Crushed.
You say you dont want to Life in a Permanent State of Emergency.
But as long as ISIS exists we effectively have an State of Emergency.
See. If lets say New Zealand suddenly Declared War on Japan.
Despite the Fact that New Zealand would be no Threat at all. You can assume Japan would place Military to Protect its People and go there to Crush New Zealand.
So why are we trying to Ignore ISIS down there and pretend that this is some sort of Criminal Issue limiting our Response to Local Police?????
All we do by this is to drag out this Conflict and allow ISIS to cause more and more Damage.
Worse. By dragging it out and not accepting ISIS as an Full Enemy. We divert the Conflict onto Cultural and Religious Issues thus demonizing the Muslime in our Country because people start seeing Islam as Enemy rather than ISIS.
If we dont start seeing ISIS as the Enemy Country it is. We are pretty much begging for our people to do the same and thus consider this an Racial/Religious War rather than an Enemy Country.
We need to Start Protecting People from Attacks. And we need to Send our Military to Crush ISIS once and for all to Cut off the Source of these Attacks.
This is not the Polices Job anymore
