Throw your political affiliations aside for a moment . . . . Do you see terrorism as a grave threat ??

Question

Please no Dem or Rep bashing and excuses. . . ..Do You or Do You Not see terrorism as a grave threat to the U.S. and the world ?

Answer as you wish. . .. . .But don't insult our intelligence and say that they can't deliver a nuke or chemical weapon, because they don't have missiles to deliver them. They can ship them or carry them to their target.

Answer 1

More of a threat to the world than at any other time. It is not just a few small bands of nutjobs, but there are state sponsors, like Iran and Syria. Then there are the proliferators of WMD and delivery technology, like the North Koreans with their missiles, like the Pakistani nuclear scientist, like the Iranians will be. The ties between these states and terrorists - like Iran's sponsorship of Hezbollah - means that eventually, they will get WMD.

And all it takes is one incident, and the genie is out of the bottle.

And retreating from Iraq is going to make that threat even worse.

Answer 2

Terrorism is the perfect answer for a military in search of an enemy.

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the hawks have had a hard time explaining why we had to continually increase military spending, but now we have this amorphous threat of "terrorism" -- a threat that is so perfect because it can never truly be defeated, and so will always serve as a convenient "monster under the bed" justifying another few billion for a new stealth bomber or a few hundred billion for an aircraft carrier or whatever.

But let's not forget several things.

1. The 9/11 attacks actually involved nineteen guys armed with knives. That's it--knives.

2. In 2001, about 3000 U.S. citizens were killed by terrorists. That same year, about 20,000 were murdered by ordinary criminals, 40,000 died in car accidents, and hundreds of thousands died of cancer and heart disease. Yet if someone proposed that the government should spend a trillion dollars curing cancer, the hawks would have gone crazy.

So, certainly terrorism is a threat. But statistically, it's much less of a threat than not wearing your seat belt or eating too many Big Macs.

The question that must be answered, then, is who benefits from our disproportionate fear?

Answer 3

Terrorism: Al Queda style really started after the Russo-Afghan war in the 1980's. The USA trained and funded the freedom fighters in which Bin Laden was a part of.

Then down the road America and the world did not heed the threats posed by Bin Laden and his terror group. The Conflict of Somalia seen the tension rise. To were it is now. A group of people wanting to be left alone, the Muslims. They do not want to be bothered by the Westerners. So, they have lashed out at the world due to our meddling in Muslim affairs.

But, Terrorists, are not necessary just Muslims. We, the western world. Have stereotyped the Muslim as a terrorist.

Hamas is a prime example: The western world pushed and pushed for Palestine to have a democratic election..They had one Hamas won. And now we starve the people for something we wanted them to do. They spoke, We did not listen.

As for the threat issue: Sure, it is a threat. Maybe not a grave threat. America has a tendency to become complacent over time. We will again and the terrorists will hit us again. We can not change that only try to stop it.

Thanks

Answer 4

Terrorism is the greatest threat facing us today. Stateless enemies are hard to fight and these groups become more sophisticated every day. It is only a matter of time before one of these groups is able to obtain and use either nuclear or biologic weapons. The biggest problem with terrorism is that it is fought over ideology. Ideologies are hard to change. Now having said that I must also say that we should not buy into hysteria on the matter. We should take every action possible to fight terrorism, but we cannot give up essential liberty to do this. Security is an illusion. If we give government too much power to interfere in our lives, or usurp our freedoms because of fear then the terrorists win by default. Remember the ultimate goal of terrorism is to destroy our lifestyle. There is a definite balance, but it is a precarious one. In the end what everyone should remember is that we are all going to die some day. In short our time on this Earth should be precious and we should live every day like it is our last making every moment count for something. You cannot do this if you are living in constant fear of unseen threats.

Answer 5

Yes, I feel that terrorism is a grave threat. This world we are living in is getting worse by the day. Yes, I see it for our country as it is going on all over the world.

Answer 6

Yes. No matter what the so-called "moderate" muslims say, the goal of islam as stated in the koran is world domination. And terrorists are not terrorists because of "repression" of muslims. Most come from middle class backgrounds, and have decided to become terrorists to advance the spread of their religion, and the destruction of the west, Judiasm, and Christianity. Once they are freed up from fighting American troops overseas, they will have the time, money, and manpower to plot the next attack on American soil. And the attack will kill both Republicans and democrats.
And with all the ACLU actions and CAIR and muslim protests beginning in this country, it won't be long before we start hearing demands for acceptance of sharia law for muslim majority communities, and removal of anything that insults islam, and anyone who dares to suggest that we not accept the islamic doctrine will be publicly tarred and feathered as "islamophobes".

Answer 7

The ultimate beneficiaries of recent terrorism in the US and UK certainly has not been the Arab or Muslim communities. It has been the US armaments and military support industry, Israel and those members of the US and UK governments eager to remove the peoples' freedom and human rights.
The threat from terrorists is minimal but the threat from our own governments and their financiers is a nightmare from Orwell's 1984.

Answer 8

I believe there are internal threats that cause more damage on a daily basis than terrorism. People not able to afford living decently, jobs being shipped overseas, people dying of lack of adequate medical care, for example.

That's not to say that violence perpetrated by a force outside the US is not a possibility or inevitable. It seems more of a possibility as people all over the world are more and more angered over the actions of our country in relation to the governance of their lives.

Answer 9

Terrorism is all over the world! War is;terrorism! No matter where the war comes from is ;terrorism! What do you call what is going in Iraq now? Was it like that when Saddam was its president? Think, war is terror. Period.

Answer 10

Yes, a grave threat and growing every day.