2016, when Islamic terrorism was still the big bad and western media was praising France for their anti-terror re-education program. this shit sounds a lot creepier than vocational training, too. nothing from Adrian Zenz about France though, curious!
bad compared to what, murdering unknown randoms via drone because their phone was too close to someone else's?
if you ran a country what would your response to CIA-backed terror campaigns be?
(also I'd be careful making an equivalence between vocational training and "forced psychological treatment")
Compared to not putting people into reeducation camps
way to dodge the question
I think the answer to the question was quite clear, my answer for a CIA-backed terror campaign would be not forcing people into reeducation camps.
doing nothing, great plan. when the country is wracked with separatist violence, balkanized, and enslaved to capital exploitation none of that violence will be your fault— because you just sat on your hands and didn't do anything, so you're blameless right
So these are the two options?
there are as many options as you care to dream up to approach it, but a solution that focuses on material conditions (and lets most students go home on evenings and weekends!) seems worth critically supporting over drone strikes. kind of moot now since apparently the reeducation program ended last December, probably because there's been a big reduction in separatist attacks compared to the waves of bombings and stabbings of the early 2010s. during the same timeframe they've also poured 10s of billions into the region aimed at helping rural poor, and developed infrastructure connections to improve regional trade with the rest of the country. that said I look forward to the day when I can be more critical of AES states because the USA has balkanized or can no longer meaningfully project power beyond its own borders
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