Terrorism Poses A Big Threat To Peace »
Posted By WikiMap 12 months ago in News
In recent decades, life in this world has become precariously insecure because of terrorism, which is assuming menacing proportions with each passing day. The law and order enforcing agencies throughout the world for maintaining peace find themselves helpless in meeting the growing challenge posed by terrorism.
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cowboygrandpa12 months ago
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There is only one way to deal with terrorists. Eliminate them hard, fast and completely !!!!
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No negotiation, no discussions, just a quick, deadly response to the acts.
Terrorists do not understand decency, they understand harshness.
To allow more innocents in this world to die for the insane beliefs of fanatical hate filled enslavers is folly.
Yes that includes this current administrations behavior as well, take the leaders out, try them and prove we hate terrorism and will not tolerate it even from our own leaders.
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icono112 months ago
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True.
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As for our administrators past, present, and future they often become the very thing they are most afraid off or intent on destroying.
Also there is a fine line between sanctioned killing such as in 'wars' and terrorists killings such as in 'jihads'. One is deemed legal by the world community the other is deemed criminal by the same world community. However the results are usually the same; murder.
However you are right CBG; to fight an enemy such as the terrorists one must be very presistent in 'pressing the advantage' and always staying in contact with the enemy.
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Tangent00112 months ago
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Terrorism can never be defeated entirely. Terrorism is a tactic, not an ideology. Arguably, American rebels used terrorism to defeat the British. Did WE have a 'uniform'? Wouldn't WE have been considered 'unlawful combatants'? What was OUR standard of 'harshness'?
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I respect you greatly and I share your abhorrence for unnecessary death.
There is no 'War against Terror', it's impossible. It's like a 'War against Infantry'.
I will never say America deserved the 911 attack, however our exploitive policies toward the third world definitely LED to the attack. -
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hyperbola12 months ago
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Well CBG, we certainly need to underline your last sentence: """One cannot stand against something he allows in his own house !!!!"""
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Confronting the Terrorist Within America
The Hindu-Muslim communal violence that led to the attacks in Mumbai, as well as the warnings that the New York City transit system may have been targeted by al-Qaida, are one form of terrorism. There are other forms.
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, when viewed from the receiving end, are state-sponsored acts of terrorism. These wars defy every ethical and legal code that seek to determine when a nation can wage war, from Just War Theory to the statutes of international law largely put into place by the United States after World War II. These wars are criminal wars of aggression. They have left hundreds of thousands of people, who never took up arms against us, dead and seen millions driven from their homes. We have no right as a nation to debate the terms of these occupations. And an Afghan villager, burying members of his family’s wedding party after an American airstrike, understands in a way we often do not that terrorist attacks can also be unleashed from the arsenals of an imperial power.
Barack Obama’s decision to increase troop levels in Afghanistan and leave behind tens of thousands of soldiers and Marines in Iraq—he promises only to withdraw combat brigades—is a failure to rescue us from the status of a rogue nation. It codifies Bush’s “war on terror.” And the continuation of these wars will corrupt and degrade our nation just as the long and brutal occupation of Gaza and the West Bank has corrupted and degraded Israel. George W. Bush has handed Barack Obama a poisoned apple. Obama has bitten it.
... The decision by the incoming Obama administration to embrace an undefined, amorphous “war on terror” will keep us locked in a war without end. This war has no clear definition of victory, unless victory means the death or capture of every terrorist on earth—an impossibility. It is a frightening death spiral. It feeds on itself. The concept of a “war on terror” is no less apocalyptic or world-purifying than the dreams and fantasies of terrorist groups like al-Qaida.
The vain effort to purify the world through force is always self-defeating. Those who insist that the world can be molded into their vision are the most susceptible to violence as antidote. The more uncertainty, fear and reality impinge on this utopian vision, the more strident, absolutist and aggressive are those who call for the eradication of “the enemy.” Immanuel Kant called absolute moral imperatives that are used to carry out immoral acts “a radical evil.” He wrote that this kind of evil was always a form of unadulterated self-love. It was the worst type of self-deception. It provided a moral façade for terror and murder. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are a “radical evil.” -
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Charlson12 months ago
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memestryker12 months ago
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Yes, return the citizens their full Constitutional right to keep and bear arms, and clearly delineate that terror is a military matter and subject to military law.
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Terrorists have attorneys that study our laws to find loopholes, and we need to make sure they cannot twist the meaning of our laws--meant to protect our citizens--in the courts.
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DarkWizard12 months ago
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If there is going to be zero tolerance for terrorism it better be accurately defined as to what a terrorist is. If we don't know who they are we become them and everyone will be strapping bombs to themselves just to protect their cause.
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hyperbola12 months ago
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We are able to "justify" support for many kinds of terrorism with propaganda.
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Deprivation and Desperation in Gaza - Obama turns his back
As people of Gaza suffer, here in the U.S., the vast majority of so-called progressives continue to revel in the recent election of the first Black man to the Presidency. While Obama has garnered a great deal of political and financial support by pledging his unconditional support for the Zionist regime in Israel, he remains completely silent on the plight of the children of Gaza. Our first Black President not only refuses to speak out against the collective punishment of an oppressed people, he actively supports and encourages the regime responsible for this behavior. This too is a tragedy of historic proportions. Have we come this far in the struggle against racism in our country only to see Barack Obama put a minority face on U.S. support for violations of international law and essential human dignity by Israel? Again, one has to say, who could ever have imagined such a thing?
... Does it ever occur to those who so blindly and passionately rallied ‘round their candidate for the Presidency that they might now use their voices to encourage him to oppose the human rights abuses being orchestrated in Gaza? The sad reality is, not even a chorus of such voices is likely to alter the course Obama appears to have taken. He has surrounded himself with a familiar cast of armchair militarists, corporatists and hard core pro-Zionist zealots who will continue to give their unconditional support to Israel regardless of what barbaric tactics the government there uses to advance the colonization of Palestine. He is choosing to turn his back on the men, women and children in Gaza and the West Bank who suffer chronic malnutrition, desperate poverty, dispossession and daily humiliation at the hands of the Israeli military.
http://www.propeller.com/story/2008/11/26/deprivat...
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Spratz12 months ago
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I know that my comment is not going to be very popular but I think that the way we are dealing with terrorism is totally wrong. When the attacks occurred on 9/11 the first thing that we should have done was asked ourselves WHY? The answer comes down to our countries policies and our governments strong arm tactics of overthrowing other leaders and putting our own in.
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Bin Ladin went on TV right after the attacks and said he reasons very clearly- U.S. santions against Iraq that caused over a million innocent children to die - The stationing of U.S.troops in Saudie Arabia - American policies towards Israel.
Instead of treating the attacks as crimes against the innocent instead of as an act of war we wouldn't be where we are today. We could have gone after Bin Laden the way they did with organized crime. The guilty would have been caught and gone to trial and we would have saved over 4,000 american soldiers not to mention the billions in dollars this conflict has cost so far.
Terrorists operate subversively not out in the open and they have to be sought out in a subversive way. If we want to avoid more attacks I think our government has to change it's ways of dealing with other countries. I think 9/11 could have avoided and I believe that other attacks could be avoided if we learn how to deal with other countries.
We've been at war with a country that had nothing to do with the attacks at all. We got into this war on a bunch of lies. How much further are we in getting Bin Laden ? It's time to smarten up. This war is getting us nowhere and he is still alive. When something isn't working it's time to use our brains instead of military power. And most important....learn from it.-
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DarkWizard12 months ago
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Spratz,
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I agree with you. And, you may see from my previous comment that I am concerned about making a blanket statement on terrorism or terrorists. This is because depending on which side of the coin you are looking at we can be considered terrorists by other nations. When we aggressively attacked Iraq, without unequivocal proof of WMD, we showed that we were willing to use terror against our enemies (real or imagined). Only we called it "Shock and Awe." If you're an American, terrorism is disguised as patriotism. Now, I'm sure many won't agree with my opinion, but I would be intellectually irresponsible to examine the world through glasses with blinders on. -
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Endoscopy12 months ago
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You missed the big point of the attack. These people consider us the Great Satan. The reason is the garbage that spews out of our film and television studios. They see this as an attack on their morals. Bin Laden was clear about this in his speeches. His view is that we have renounced Christianity and are no longer "people of the book" that should not be attacked and have become infidels that should be attacked and killed. You obviusly do not understand the Muslim beliefs. This is all about religion.
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You also ignore the fact that until 9/11 the method of response to the terrorists was to treat them like criminals. The problem is that they are not inside our country. -
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hyperbola12 months ago
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Why would any american whose first loyalty is to America (and not Israel) want to listen to Ralph Peters?
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A Bloody Border Project
Zionist-Imperialist Dogma from the Armed Forces Journal
... Ralph Peters is an ex-intelligence officer of the US military who apparently possesses the ego to front for such a project. He has put his name to a scheme for redrawing of the borders of the Middle East and farther afield.2 It should not be assumed that Peters took the initiative personally, as the design is consistent with the issues of the American empire in its Zionist phase. Peters, therefore, is but one spokesperson from among the many acolytes of hyper-imperialism.
As an agent of militarist imperialism, Peters is a pro-war agitator who openly espouses his prejudices.3 That the platform for his racist verbiage is the Armed Forces Journal (AFJ) serves as evidence of the hyper-imperialist program. ...
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/06/a-bloody-bor...
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onlyonesecret12 months ago
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“The true terrorists of our world do not meet at the docks at midnight, or scream ‘Allah Akbar’ before some violent action. The true terrorists of our world wear five thousand dollar suits, and work in the highest positions of finance, government and business.”
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markoller12 months ago
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If you want proof that the WTC and Pentagon demolition was a false flag attack click http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aachat_alternative/m...
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It contains far more links than I can download here. -
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markoller12 months ago
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I quote from principle seven of "9/11 University - College of Disinformation Recognition: Major recognized 9/11-lie-sustaining disinformation campaigns within the 9/11 Truth Movement."
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The false-flag "9/11 truth movement" itself! The visible leaders of this fake-opposition "movement" suppress the most revealing evidence, and deftly 'fail' to connect the most meaningful dots, enfeebling the movement and thus enabling the government's impossible conspiracy theory to remain alive (in part by raising and sustaining [mere] doubt in its impossible elements). 911truth.org and various agents and tentacles comprise a kind of groupthink network: In something resembling cult behavior, naive honest trusting 911truthers just assume that the few dozen most prominent mutually-supportive (but sometimes fake-opposing) professors and doctors and researchers and activists are all intelligent, well-motivated, sincere leaders who truly oppose the lies of 9/11 with all their intellect, and so anything beyond what those exalted credentialed leaders allude to must not exist or be of any significance -- thus even when the trusting followers see lie-breaking evidence for themselves, they will tend to disregard it, because their trusted opinion leaders have long ignored it and/or provided them some pretext why it should be. Forming a limited-truth fake-opposition boundary like that (so everyone will assume that the truth 'must' reside somewhere between the government's lies and the truth movement's leaders' half-truths and limited lies)... http://911u.org/CoDR/ -
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ETproductions12 months ago
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What we now call terrorists have been around since the dawn of time. The Great Wall of China was built to keep them out. It didn't. China weakened from infighting between warlords, and the swarm invaded.
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The Goths and Visigoths, running in full retreat from Genghis Khan's terrorist, ran right over what was left of the Roman Empire in Rome. They were Rome's terrorist.
All the Castles and moats in Europe couldn't stop the marauding Vikings from sacking city after city at war among themselves.
We declared a War on Poverty. We declared a War on Drugs. Now we have declared a War on Terrorism. Here is piece of wisdom for those cowering in the corner, afraid of the terrorist. You are not going to defeat a condition or strategy that has been around since the dawn of time with an army, no matter how modern that army may be.
The weak fall to terrorists. The strong survive. America is crumbling around us now and we fight like the Ancient Europeans did as Vikings stage raid after raid. We either unite as Americans and recover our nation's standing, or we will loose the War on Terror.
If we revive our national unity, we can stop play acting at War and treat terrorism as the police action it truly is. We will never eliminate terror as a strategy, but we can keep it in check.-
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memestryker12 months ago
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Our founders knew this first hand. They wrote a consitution and explicitly amended it with this in mind so that it could not be undone.
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Reviving our national unity is essential. All this self-flagellation gets us no where. Admit mistakes and weaknesses as learning opportunities--not as judgments. Negative speaking just creates negative emotions.
That's why all the pledging, national anthems, and such are so important. They help us train our brains to be open to innovation in the context of a positive future. I think that was what Obama was trying to accomplish in his speeches, but now it's time to put some meat on the bones. We need more ethics and less moralizing. I, for one, easily fall into a trap and need to practice programming my brain to see possibility in what looks somewhat bleak. -
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ETproductions12 months ago
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memestryker wrote: "I, for one, easily fall into a trap and need to practice programming my brain to see possibility in what looks somewhat bleak." Me too. I'm working on it. Unless we can imagine something better, it isn't likely we will create it.
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jaspersneed12 months ago
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As important as this subject is, this particular article hardly did it any justice. Poorly written, inanely reasoned and doltishly constructed from the headline on down. I would have hoped for something a little better than this disjointed little banality to be a Propeller headliner on the subject of terrorism. What is up with that?
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CHAM12 months ago
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I believe the biggest threat to our freedoms here in the United States is apathy and a denial of what is going on. Look at all who continue to support the Kleptocracy that has grown up here and is ever growing.
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The short definition of Kleptocracy is "Rule by thieves and deception". A longer version will identify that the thieves are rulers who steal from their subjects to enright and empower themselves. What would you call the 40 or so incursions on countries around the world, the Bush Administration, the Bailouts that the receivers of the money refuse to account for what they did with it - our money if I might remind you?
I feel we are moe likely to fall victim to despot governance than any harm that ever comes from a "terrorist" organization.
We need to be vigilant of both. And we need to punish both. Why not clean out our own house while we are at it?
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imprevisible14612 months ago
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Most terrorists display antisocial personality disorder, which means in short they dont have the ability to feel guilt or sorrow...therefore you're right...we need to just destroy all of them immediately. Negotiating wont help. Peace is the climate of freedom.
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toph197312 months ago
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More fearmongering. Why is this up here during solstice? I'm really tired the the right trying to make us think that there's a terrorist around every corner trying to kill us. Shall we all cower in fear in our closets? No Thanks, while they keep reminding us about this, I'll keep living my the rest of my life on my terms. I'll hit the lottery before some cowardly fundie kills me.
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Hubert3912 months ago
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Terrorist, Freedom Fighter,insurgent, militant....all the same.
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These people want freedom or a new nation. Around 230 years ago a certain group of people over threw a government and created a nation. Think about it. In the late 1940's a nation was created in the Middle East. This has been going for centuries. New nations will be created ove the next 20 plus years. If you are in power you want to keep it. And those do not have the power want it. That's life on our earth. -
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coolrayfruge12 months ago
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Fear has always been used to get people to surrender and sacrifice their Freedoms.
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History has documented what ambitious greedy power hungry men are capable of.
It would be the first time that people were sacrificed for one person selfish ambitions.
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who has it benifitted since 911.
Who has gain more power over the American people since 911.
Who has it profitted since 911.
who did it help get relected when his ratings were low after 911.
Who are the Terrorist really?
Finatical Musilums or hired mercenarys for the Saudi Oil companys and our own elected officals.
Hired to secure a oil investment deal in Iraq.
What are the chances that three steel framed building would collapes perfectly and as fast as they did in one day?
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CHAM12 months ago
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jebus08. You may have made the proper identification. Commodore didn't say let's punish the bastards for what they've done to us, nope he said in essence " My crooks lost and if you think they were bad just wait until yours get in".
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I say punish his crooks and if the new bunch sees the punishment and doesn't take heed, make sure they get swift and sure punishment also.
That's how to stop criminals - make the cost too high for them.-
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most_reasonable12 months ago
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For the Muslim terrorists who welcome death and the promised virgins, there is no "too high" for them.
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The thought processes is that the suicide bomber gets his whole family saved as well. Perhaps a bath in pigs blood is what they need to see. No paradise, no virgins, NOTHING.
The next time one of these suicide bombers is retrieved, that should be their reward.
With Pakistan in possession of Nuclear weapons (taking them away should have been Bush's first order of business (note that every time India complains the Pakistanis role out their missiles), only a promise of wiping out their holy sites is encourage for them to pull back.
Destroying the Sunni holy sites by the Shia and visa versa is an ongoing project for them. They have no desire to live in peace and even if you are thinking about converting, it's not enough.....still murder on an every day basis.
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CHAM12 months ago
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most reasonable. I was speaking of the internal problem we have.
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As to the Sunni and Shiite. They married each other before the invasion.
But you are right about the price too high. When someone is willing to sacrifice their life for something they believe, then they are a most formidable enemy.
Taking away Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons? Why? Did they threaten us? They were our Ally. But we treated them like Pig Sh.. and they took offense - not the government, the people. They didn't like the idea of us bombing and killing their people when they have been supporting us. And that is exactly what we have been doing.
What on earth do you have against the Pakistanis? What have they done to America except support us? Why would the United States want to attack a Nuclear Armed nation that is an ally?
Pakistan and India have been enemies for some time, since Pakistan was formed. Both are nuclear armed. BTW Pakistanis and Indians are not Arabs.
Bush and the Neo-Con War Industry is the problem in Iraq, not Pakistan, not India, and not the Iraqis. What did Iraq do to the United States to cause us to invade them? Certainly not 9/11. Saddam was a tyrant but he offered to go into exile to avoid the war, so we can't even truthfully use regime change as a reason. And you know what a farce WMD was - don't you?
Most - what is the cause of your hate?
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