The most hardcore terrorist foot soldiers are looking for revolution and an overthrow of the current working order. The leaders might be fat old rich men sending willing and able kids to die, but the terrorist textbook is to raise the fanatical feeling of all or nothing plays to that end. It's a no brainier that Isis will never be a taliban like rogue state. Who knows what the real endgame is as they or someone at the top is raking in huge amounts of money from oil and black market dealings. But the idiots on the ground are thinking something else altogether. There's an interesting documentary on the fundamentalists Islamist roots its ties with the neocons and its existentialist origins from Sartre. But that's a different tangent than where the thread is heading... I remember reading about this years ago, iirc the safety net expands to employment where it's much harder to fire workers than it is here. So you have a fairly stagnant class that's blocking younger or less skilled workers from entering the work field. Ideas like affirmative action isn't driven by the government so companies aren't being forced to be more diverse. There's even a law that says when a company hires an immigrant the employer has to check unemployment offices to see if there's an equally qualified German available and hire that person instead. The welfare bit is driven heavily by the German right as the immigrants have no inclination to work or even speak German. Stories of second generation illiterates who speak neither full German nor their mother tongue is a telling sad state of fail. Our model isn't something to be proud of either, but what's common is that we're all in the US for a reason, and for many, it took getting past an ocean to get there. So even if there were Ethnic boroughs like little Italy or Chinatown, over time a good majority improved as did their children's futures. I think the lesson is not to throw money at the problem and hope the "Europeness" catches on like an illness or that they suddenly realize how privileged they are to live in the old world. Some leaders are catching onto that but I haven't really followed up on whether they'll act with anything substantial.
