If This Not Terrorism, Then What Is It?

Question

The Mother of all Terrorists
To Be Taken Quite Literally!
For those of you who want "FACTS" and "FIGURES" and have the intellect to judge 'GOOD' from 'EVIL' and the courage to know and say out the TRUTH....for the rest you should stop here!

Ever since the United States Army massacred 300 Lakotas in 1890, American forces have intervened elsewhere around the globe 100 times. Indeed the United States has sent troops abroad or militarily struck other countries' territory 216 times since independence from Britain. Since 1945 the United States has intervened in more than 20 countries throughout the world.

Since World War II, the United States actually dropped BOMBS ON 23 COUNTRIES. These include: China 1945-46, Korea 1950-53, China 1950-53, Guatemala 1954, Indonesia 1958, Cuba 1959-60, Guatemala 1960, Congo 1964, Peru 1965, Laos 1964-73, Vietnam 1961-73, Cambodia 1969-70, Guatemala 1967-69, Grenada 1983, Lebanon 1984, Libya 1986, El Salvador 1980s, Nicaragua 1980s, Panama 1989,

Iraq 1991-Continue, Sudan 1998, Afghanistan 1998, and Yugoslavia 1999.

Post World War II, the United States has also assisted in over 20 different coups throughout the world, and the CIA was responsible for half a dozen assassinations of political heads of state.

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Answer 1

All of this is known. We need a more penetrating question however, not just vituperative commentary. The point is not whether or not this is happening and is wrong, but what shall replace it as a world system or "world order?" It is easy to criticize things, but can you offer solutions - a path to world peace? If not, ask. I can attempt an answer.

Answer 2

Let us define terms.

Terrorism is the intentional targeting of civilians for the purpose of altering that population’s behavior or securing some political end. Under that description, the United States has been involved in a great number of incidents over the past 200+ years. As have just about every other nation in the entire world.

I feel I should address a few of your events mentioned.

Korea was a war to stop a sovereign nation from being overrun by another nation. The point of our dropping bombs there was not to kill civilians, though some did die. The idea was to kill soldiers under the military command of another nation.

Vietnam was a similar situation where our treaty with the South dragged us into a horrific conflict that was very poorly done. Many bad things happed in that war, but war is by its nature, the epitome of evil.

Grenada was a military action taken against a government, not the people. The main reason for it was the safety of hundreds of American citizens. Civilians were not targeted.

Lebanon was a peacekeeping mission. We put our troops there to try to keep several warring factions from tearing that country apart. We failed in my opinion, which was why the Syrians invaded and made Lebanon a puppet state under their control. Civilians were not targeted.

Most of the small actions in Central and South America were done to secure American interests, usually economic but sometimes, as in the case of Panama, for security reasons. Again, civilians were not targeted.

In the interests of intellectual honesty, shouldn't you remove those references? Unless you just want to bash America and Americans and gloss over truth.

Answer 3

Alas, I can't argue with the truth. At one time in my life I thought my country would never be guilty of these acts. I am no longer that naive.

Korea was a possible exception, as the North did attack the South, but problems in other countries may have been solved differently.

Answer 4

That is Government. Thats why you cannot just pin todays problem on Bush. Granted, he is a part of it, but only a small part comparably speaking. All those strikes and intrusions by the U.S. armed Forces cannot be blamed on the members of the armed forces, but on our Government. Yes , unfortunately it is terroristic. It is all about money and power. But in the end, we (the United States) are the Romans and we will fall eventually and we are going to fall hard. I am not anti American, I served in the U.S Army for six years. I am just saying we are being set up by our government for a huge fall. Hang on folks it's gonna get bumpy!!!!!

Answer 5

None of those examples are terrorism.

You just doing what Noam Chomsky does all the time and that is take a term and reinterpret the meaning of a defined term.

This is referred to as a "semantic" argument. Nice argument in the context you are using.

The problem with your argument? There's no context to it.

If X kills Y then X is a terrorist is false argument.

circumstances surround X and Y need to be determined in order for it to be decided of whether or not a terrorist act has occurred.

When you're older, you'll understand something most college kids don't understand: life is more complicated than a one-sided argument.

Answer 6

Terrorism is a guerilla tactic used by the small against the large. The small can't possibly hope to win in a head-to-head military conflict, so they attempt to dissuade public opinion through use of fear caused by dramatic civilian deaths. Unfortunately for the small in this case, terrorist attacks here have the effect of pissing us off. If you know so much U.S. history, then you should know what happens to people who attack us. Stop trying. Being a scary world power is not the same as being a terrorist. We're scary because we can crush armies, not just women and children.

Answer 7

Yes. But I think the most horrible thing the US did is its continuous and limitless support for Israel. Israel fought 6 wars in the middle east 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982 and 2006. Israel has commited many massacres against unarmed civilians. Israel is the cause of "islamic" terrorism. The "islamic" terrorists are angry at Israel and the west for supporting the illegitimate israeli occupation of arab land.

Answer 8

In order to get proper answers, one must ask proper questions.

Try asking your question again, only this time include sentences not phrases or dates lumped together.

If you have the intellect to spell intellect, then you should be intelligent enough to be a contributing member of YA by either asking a question properly or responding to one in kind...

I'm not picking on you. I'd love to be able to give you an answer, but you're post is bordering on incoherence.

Answer 9

Nobody is perfect in this world but one thing you should get in your pea size brain is that we do NOT target civilians as do terrorist.

you named about 20 out of 25 countries who have a horrible track record... if you read a little bit of history, you'll understand why those bombs were dropped.

Ok, maybe thats a little too much for your head... lets try one for example or maybe two countries who were bombed

Cuba- Because they were going to nuke America along with Russia I.E. cuba missle crisis

Libya- because they bombed a disco in Berlin that killed numerous Americans.

thanks for your Idiotic question that could of been answered by a little bit of a history lesson

Answer 10

i agree with you, but we are the ones who put them into office and they get power crazed if we america as a whole took the power back things wouldnt be happening the way they are we wouldnt be in billions of dollars of debt we wouldnt be over in iraq trying to steal their oil but untill america gets the brass to come out of their shell there isnt a damn thing we can do about it.