"We will defeat the threat of terrorism by spreading freedom..."?

Question

Can you really spead freedom by military force? How can so many people believe this?

Answer 1

Although every one in the world is entitled to freedom, it is only the people of a nation that can decide to rise up, overthrow their government, and demand their own freedom.

Foreign governments can and have come into and overthrown another governments, but never in history has a stable government ever been created from the ruins when the people of that country resent the forced change of government.

Answer 2

Nobody is truely free in this world. sometimes by spreading freedom you end up changing cultures which would have evolved. This now create a society that is lost and trying to come to terms with this change, which leads to rebellion. note there is more depression in the free society, than in the so called "uncivilized" society. Spreading freedom by force or by guile should be discouraged, let people emulate any culture or system they want to.

Answer 3

I couldn't agree more. The whole concept of forcing "freedom" on people is absurd; it's a total oxymoron. Anyone but a blindly loyal party follower should recognize this.

weaver737, thank you for the wonderful quote from Dr. Martin Luther King. It's very applicable here.

Answer 4

No ,but you can beat it by spreading prosperity, because misery begetts indirectly terrorism, and if everyone has a prosperous life and his children are safe educated in good health there are no reason except mental imbalance that would point someone to terroris.
I see that everyone with healty logic sees that violence begetts violence, and as harder you try to destroy it as powerfool it emerges from darkest corner of human soul. But since no one can do terroris act without some kind of support, and support will disapear in the wind if good will and prosperity is spread on all EARTH.

Answer 5

You can spread freedom by removing dictators, kings, and other tyrannical governements. We can't garuntee democracy will work, but we can at least give it a chance. There was no chance for freedom under scumbags like the Taliban and Saddam.

Answer 6

No. i do not imagine H1N1 comes on the point of being the possibility it is terrorism. Swine Flu hasn't were given close to the determination & techniques, no longer to tutor different procedures to attack. (The transmission is seriously constrained as compared to the position & how a terrorist may attack.) in spite of the indisputable fact that I do believe also that terrorism contained in the destiny will contain so much better chemical & organic and organic guns too & someone, someplace may purely detect a thanks to improve the skill damage that flu & different diseases can do.

Answer 7

It's pretty words in a sound bite from Der Leader! It MUST be true, you can't possibly question it!


Installing democracy by foreign military intervention isn't going to work. Either the citizenry back it or it fails, that's how representative government works..

Answer 8

i say stop spreading the freedom and take care of the needs in the country first

Answer 9

maybe you should do some research on what our military has been doing over there. iraq has been liberated from a tyrant who raped, murdered and killed millions of his own people. He mutilated and killed over 4 million Curds just because he wanted to see what his chemical weapons would do. Contrary to what you might think, most of the Iraqis are thankful that we came. when i was there, they would thank us over and over and even though they were poor, they would make us a meal and would have given us the shirt off of their back.

Answer 10

"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.... The chain reaction of evil — hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars — must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation."

~That would be one late, great, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.