Eric L Anderson
Jul 21, 2017 · 1 min read

“Yet radicalization and violence are not the same: the latter is only a specific outcome of a path which begins long before. That Americans are generally not committing themselves to extremism-infused violence does not suggest that the basic paths which Muslim rejectionists have trod cannot themselves be walked by Americans. For the precursor to choosing to pick up the mantle of a rejectionist strain of certitude is abandonment, disillusionment, and eventual refutation of the social and cultural system that has birthed such animosity.”

When I was 18 I might have believed this, and maybe welcomed the idea. Then I began serving my country in uniform, traveled the world, and served along side Americans from every race and culture. The disease in america is entitlement and the cure is service.

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