Things that are a more serious threat to Americans than ISIS

[edhopper]

a thread to keep things in perspective.

I will start with a crumbling infrastructure, Climate Change and mentally ill people with guns.

[arcane1]

1. I'll add corporate influence/money in politics n/t

[melman]

2. ISIS is a really big problem

It makes no sense to try to diminish it.

[COLGATE4]

3. In the overall scheme of things that directly affect

your daily life, ISIS is way, way down at the bottom.

[melman]

15. Until it's not

Just like the the people at the EODM show. If you think that can't happen here you are delusional.

[edhopper]

16. Do you think it should take

the amount of resources it does, in place of things like lack of health care for all Americans, addressing Climate Change etc...

[COLGATE4]

18. You have a better chance of contracting EBOLA while

simultaneously being struck by lightning than you ever will of being caught in a terrorist ambush here.

[daleanime]

28. Why do you sound....

so hopeful?

[edhopper]

5. ISIS is a big problem

mostly in the Middle East States, there are about 30,000 men fighting for ISIS.

But my point is that there are serious, fatal risks we ignore while pouring resources and attention to ISIS?

And yes the threat of ISIS need to be diminished from the current hysteria of "The BIGGEST threat to the US" that is going on.

Do you think more Americans will die from terrorism, or lack of Health Insurance?

[jeff47]

6. For Syria and the Middle East.

Not so much a "big" problem for the US.

More to the point, ISIS is not a problem the US can solve.

[brush]

29. Agreed. We can't solve it . . .

by ourselves — and I am in no way advocating boots on the ground — but the countries in the ME can't, or won't in the case of the Saudis who probably help fund ISIS, so it looks like we're stuck there.

At least the French and, who would've thunk it, the Russians are there, along with the Kurds/Turkey to help.

We're not doing this unilaterally like B/Chaney foolishly did. And disregard their so-called "coalition of the willing".

[jeff47]

30. Not quite.

The Russians are bombing anti-ISIS/anti-Assad rebels, in order to restore Assad to power.

Turkey is doing less than the absolute minimum required, because they need ISIS and the Kurds to keep fighting. If the Kurds weren't fighting ISIS, they'd likely be setting up Kurdistan. And once Kurdistan is founded, roughly the Eastern 1/3rd of Turkey will attempt to secede to join Kurdistan, triggering a civil war.

Nothing in the Middle East is an "us-versus-them" fight.

[brush]

34. It's a totally entangled mess, agreed.

I don't see how we can just walk away though because we (Bush/Cheney) broke Iraq and thus created ISIS and the refugee crisis.

Morally we need to do what we can to help. If Obama pulled us out we'd be slammed the world over and and have little trust or cooperation from other countries.

Oh, I should have added Iran to the other countries involved.

[jeff47]

35. When you can't fix it, it is better to walk away than to break it more.

Walk away militarily. Supply various forms of aid (food, shelter, cash).

Continue to monitor what's going on via intelligence agencies, and disrupt anything that is actually dangerous to the US via extremely targeted, extremely small attacks (ie. bin Laden raid).

And then we get to wait through the unspeakable horrors that will happen as the people there work out the problems - those horrors will be worse if we keep trying to fix it.

[brush]

37. Yes, aid in the form of food, shelter and cash, intelligence etc. No troops

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. Politicians blustering about ISIS are far more dangerous than ISIS.

But, I certainly agree with your examples.

[demmiblue]

7. Poverty. n/t

[historylovr]

33. +1

[Mr Dixon]

8. IMO

police brutality

[Cali_Democrat]

9. Guns. nt

[edhopper]

10. How could i forget to add

the whole Fucking GOP!

[Atman]

12. Stepping in cat puke on my way to the bathroom at 3:00 am.

Really.

[merrily]

13. Trying to dance like Beyonce to Single Ladies in heels on a slippery floor. (Don't ask.)

[merrily]

14. Lying, misleading and otherwise deceptive politicians

[B2G]

17. Are we only to be concerned if the US is threatened?

I am actually much more concerned about Europe right now.

[edhopper]

19. Many in this country

seem to be.

[B2G]

20. Well I've certainly seen a lot of ISIS minimizing lately

This thread seems to reinforce that.

[edhopper]

22. As the major threat to this country

it should be minimized.

There are many things that are more severe that we are not addressing.

[LanternWaste]

31. It's easy to see if one lacks the specific and particular context

It's easy to see if one lacks the specific and particular context drawn to such an obvious degree for even the most sub-literate in the OP. Your response seems to reinforce that.

[B2G]

32. You're little shruggy man is trite.

[edhopper]

36. I must be sub-literate

cause i got no idea what you just said. double

[edhopper]

21. There is also our Food supply

up to 9000 people die a year from food borne disease.

But there is an active move to further deregulate and not fund food inspection.

[Heeeeers Johnny]

23. Not waiting at least 30 minutes after eating a hot dog then go swimming.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

24. The Chamber of Commerce. eom

[valerief]

25. H1Bs, offshoring of jobs. nt

[valerief]

26. Toxic water, toxic food. nt

[Binkie The Clown]

27. By body count: American police officers. n/t