how has terrorism been impacted by the United States' terrorism policy.?

Question

Recently the State Department published its annual report which was filled with inaccurate numbers as to the amount of terrorist acts which occurred over the past year and the amount of victims who lost their lives. The State Department first hailed the report as proof of the positive impacts of the War on Terrorism. Once influential congressional figures questioned the reports validity, the State Department acknowledged the errors and then stated that the "State Department retracts the terrorism assertion and corrected the report. Thus the new report will show a 'sharp increase' in the amount of terrorist acts and victims killed globally." This article was published by CNN on Thursday, June 10, 2004 Posted: 9:37 PM EDT.

The article goes on to say that Colin Powell denied that the errors were politically motivated, but many in Congress have challenged him on this issue.
The above mentioned policy report which was the subject of great debate both in the media and the international community. The State Department has made corrections, yet many in Congress call for a hearing in order to investigate the State Department's misinformation.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

No. Terrorism is not impacted by anything the government wants to do. It is motivated by radical, fanatical, religious zealotism and you cannot impact something that is motivated by emotion.

I guess they can try to prevent some of the specific acts, but they are not going to be able to impact the movement itself.

As for more hearings: Yeah, right. Like more hearings will do anything but make the lawyers richer. Congress hires lawyers to investigate. The government agencies hire lawyers for the people who testify. People need to quit voting for elected officials that used to be lawyers. All they do is watch out of one another.

In the end, nothing results from the hearings. Look at the Wickipedia article on the Iran-Contra hearings for an example. Another is the hearings on the Valerie Plame thing.

Nobody went to jail on the Iran-Contra thing. And nobody will go to jail on the Valerie Plame thing, either. It's all just a game they play to make the lawyers happy so they can get campaign contributions from the lawyer groups.

I hear people say, "Well, the government has money. They may as well spend it on something."

Question: Who paid for the stuff the government did back in the 1940s and 1950s?

Answer: Nobody. It just went into a National Debt. And their children and grandchildren and great grandchildren will be paying for what they did forever. All we do is pay the interest on the National Debt and our taxes will keep going up forever just to pay the interest.

People say the debt was reduced under during the Clinton Administration by the Republican Congress watching out for spending. That's a bunch of baloney. If you investigate that carefully you will find out that they used smoke and mirrors to make it look that way. They changed stuff around so that they could use the money that had been set aside for Social Security to reduce the debt. Their reasoning was that the money was in a government account, so it could be applied to the government debt. Isn't that special? Or as they said on Saturday Night Live, speeeeeeeeashul.

So anything that the government spends today is only going to hurt the children. It's time we stopped being so selfish.

Answer 3

You are in an Introduction to Terrorism class right now aren't you? I am taking the same class and you copy the questions word for word. Are you having any luck by doing this?? Are the answers correct? I can't seem to find any of the stuff teh teacher is talking about so I try to google the articles to read more about it and this is the second time I found that you posted something like this. Good luck.

Answer 4

Terrorist acts are going to increase regardless of the US response, because terrorism is part of a global Islamist movement.
It will increase more rapidly if we don't fight hard against it.
Look at Israel; every concession to terrorist demands has resulted in more terrorist attacks. Every crackdown on terrorism has resulted in fewer terrorist attacks.

Answer 5

It's up to America to stop her anti-Islamic policy in order to be free from terrorist threats. America's now harvesting what she has been growing for many decades.