Reasons To Disagree
Terrorism is the effect of the impoverished trying to fight back. It's undesireable, but thats the truth. The more we go to war with "terrorist states", the more we encourage them to fight back. You cannot stop terrorism with war, you can only curb terrorism by ending peoples justifications to commit that terror. eg Liberating palestine, giving the IRA representation in Northern Ireland, contributing more aid and ending the repression of oil rich states. Terrorism is just another form of war, one used when someone can't meet their enemy head on. Its no more justifiable than war as it kills just as many innocent people and the killing of the innocent can never be justified. If you don't give the enemy a reason to hate you, you end both war and terrorism. My view is terrorism has little to do with the impoverished fighting back, it's predominantly about differences in mind, body and spirit. Today's terrorism has all been by groups with fanatical religious tendencies that has problems with Western ideology.
Now in saying that, what is worse, the one who fights back out of vengeance or the one who struck the first blow for their own moral viewpoint?
In every aspect, war will always be the bane of human civilization and in most ways decides the course of the future. Humans are now pessimistic beings who value survival and self-interest over the "Greater Good". Remember that the old meaning of Terror was as in a Rule of Terror, i.e. Terror by the government. The reason terrorists get their nickname is that they provoke a Rule of Terror. This causes the government to destroy their own business support and gives them no road back. Ideological wars don't tend to be won, so much as instill an inordinate amount of resentment by those upon whom war is declared.
Police work is the proper counter to terrorism without God impossible . You can't win a war on terrorism any more than you can win a war on want. The "war on terrorism" is just an excuse to project American power around the world and to snatch away our civil liberties. Actually, the "war on terrorism" has increased the threat of terrorism, because it has resulted in even more destruction, impoverishment, injustice and oppression. Thanks to Bush and Blair, the real axis of evil, we are caught in a vicious circle. And now the self-righteous maniacs are talking about using nuclear weapons against Iran. They can't wait for Armageddon. It is the countries like America's fault that we are living in terrorismphobic golbal society today.
Because of spontanious aspect of terrorism no it cannot be stopped. America also is finally paying for the miseries it has bought onto the Islam countries over the last century. So best thing America does now it to help heal the relationships it has with those countries and destroy the cause for radical expressions How long is a piece of string? Who / what is terrorism? Who defines that? those who think that "terrorism" is limited to Islamic extremism had better think again.
Northern Ireland and IRA.
Sri Lanka and Tamil Tigers
Columbia and FARC
Zimbabwe and ZANU PF
Sudan and Junjaweed
and plenty more... War on a concept cannot be won one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. It is a war on ideals and the parties involved are disagreeing and are unlikely to ever agree
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Reasons To Agree
When you make the consequence of a terroist act more dreadful than the terroist act itself, you will win the war on terror. To do this we must first adopt the removal of civil and liberties and human rights as the terroists have done. To fight with one hand tied behind the back is where we are losing this war The most serious war on terrorism is the one we have right here in New Zealand, where maori separatists can do pretty much whatever they choose, kill kids and still be allowed to walk around freely with no requirement to cooperate with police... Here's an idea - let's split everybody up into two groups based on their ethinicity.. let's have all maori on one electoral roll and all non maori on another.. wow sounds like a great way to bring a country together. It's time to call a spade a spade. It's really simple - extradite all Muslims back to Muslim countries of their own choosing, allow them time to tidy up their affairs, pay for their flights home (on Muslim airlines). Then we will know where they are and if they want to declare war on the west, it can be operated under the rules of the Geneva Convention and in a manner that we can all understand. It won't be pleasant - in fact, it will be horrific - but it will be better than this stupid situation which reminds me of the fairground game where you try to hit a gopher who pops up randomly from a board full of holes and you are always on the back foot. I'm a realist, even a fatalist and I can see nothing but bad news for the future. Of course it can be won - but not with one or even both hands tied behind our backs. Yes - but remember its an ideological war not a conventional us-vs-them one We can win. First we mustn't be defeated - i.e. don't be terrorified. Secondly we go about winning - the key to this is a strategy of moderation. To over react is to loose the moral acendancy and faiure to address the root causes. For the few that will never accept moderation, we need to be prepared to deal decisively. the muslim coutrys have horrible laws as it is,they are not capable of fair play,my uncle was held hostage buy them...and hearing what he went through,from and inocent travel next to being held hostage,it dusgust me how they could be so doubt less.they need to be sent to there own countrys,if there not going to accept the rules here..they cant keep living here, if there going to go by there own laws,it puts everyone in danger.and we can win..muslim countrys are cowards,we have brave soilders It has to be won, if not then freedom will reign no more! It can be won, but maybe through other means than war. If America had spents its trillions on building up third world countries, imagine how much better its image and relations would be with both its allies and its enemies.
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