Terrorism is not a man like Bin Laden, it is not a country like Afghanistan, it is an idea . .?

Question

So how do you fight something you can't see?

Answer 1

Ideas never die.

Answer 2

You have eyes yet you do not see. We are the terrorist. We finance the the 2nd largest terroest state on the planet Isreal. I have been pointing this out all day today and I should stop I am weary. 9/11 was an inside job. The big ideas to fear are coming from Washington. They have some wicked plans for us. With Henry Kissinger advising George W. with his depopulation plans, he has supportted since the 1970's. Google depopulation see what pops up.
Next the Bush and the Bin laudin families are very close freinds. They have also done over 30Billion dollars in business just betwen them in the last three decades. They vacation together. Go to google video and watch Loose Change 2nd Edition, from their dig around some 9/11 truth sites and stop watching corporate owned news. At least when the soveits had Provada they KNEW it was Propaganda and many would find foreign stations to find out what was really going on. When you have not even grasped that you are and have since at least those huge mega media mergers when Reagan deregulated the rules, so now we have no public airwaves. Bush has attacked PBS so bad you can't know. The fact is , it's all propaganda. With just enough debate (except to ask any questions leading up to the invasion of Iraq) funny how all those reporters could be so ill informed while I at that time had still never used a computer, yet knew all of the lies and every single reason and motive behind it all armed with only a library card. So forgive me not believing they all knew at least what I knew and I was telling everybody and sounding like some left wing flake Bush's popularity was floating betwen 70% and 90%.
Now they are all pretending to be embarrassed for not asking the tough questions. Ha they asked no questions other than asking how the Presidential doggy Barney was feeling about the war and other nonesense. Truth be told they were not allowed to ask any hard questions. If one did after agreeing off camera not to thir whole paper or magazine was person non gratia after that. Remember ideas can be deadly, but knowledge is power too. For instances one possable scenario they have cooking is to actually nuke an American City, Blame Iran and my o my the arrests of citizans will begin in earnest. Living inside the boarders of the continental U.S.A will make Nazi Germany look like Disney land. The fact that there is at this moment two shows playing on television that involve nucler bombs going off on Amercian soil is telling. According to Army Intellegence this is always done as a sort of phsyc op to conition the public for the possable event. So go get educatd....Mary

Answer 3

Exactly right, and the answer is, "You can't".

"The war on terrorism" is like the "War on agnosticism". It's an abstraction, it's not a 'thing'. There's no identifiable object.

And of course, that's exactly why the Republican U.S. government decided to wage a war on terrorism. Not because it's winnable, but because it's not. The value of such a war is that it generates emotion...fear, anger, hatred... and those emotions can be manipulated to engender support for all kinds of initiatives. Just keep calling up the bogeyman every time you want to achieve something, as has been the case in Iraq.

Al qaeda was responsible for 9/11. There SHOULD have been a war on Al Qaeda. There should have been a war on Bin Laden. But instead... Bin Laden was given a pass, and the pronouncement was, "We're fighting the war on terrorism!", followed by an invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq.

The USA wanted a war, for oil and to inject hundreds of billions of dollars into the military industrial complex. Saddam Hussein was ripe for it, the Iraq military was weak, and Iraq's oil reserves are vast. So with the support of the American people, based on the WMD scare and all the so-called intel linking Hussein to terrorist activities... the road is clear for the fulfilment of a corrupt agenda.

And the actual terrorists responsible for 9/11?

They're still out there.

Answer 4

Well the problem is that you can't negotiate with a terrorist. They view themselves as freedom fighters and they view us as the terrorists. Therefore standard diplomacy is out of the question.

Conventional armies are useless against terrorists. Fighting them is best done through special-ops, spies and other covert warfare tactics.

However, the best way to fight them is to turn the people against them. When a simple middle-eastern person sees that a foreign army is rebuilding a school, fixing a bridge or renovating hospitals, the idea of terrorism becomes void.

One the other hand, when the simple middle-eastern man sees an army that does none of that, kills civilians, ransacks homes as well as other stuff along those lines become more open to the idea of terrorism and thus more likely to become one.

Answer 5

In the Name of God the Most Merciful!
The phenomenon the West is calling terrorism is meaning waging the war against the radical interpretation of Islam. It is not a war against other terror groups like ETA, IRA or !7 November group or GRAPO are totally forgotten.
The actions of UN Counterterrorism Committee and sanctions are directed against al-Qaeda affiliated groups and people, supposedly of Muslim-related origin. So are the actions of Department of State of USA.
This puts the question in another angle - why so-called Islamists are targeted? The answer is simple - because they pose serious threat not only in physical sense, but ideological sense. I.e. they provide altenrative way of governing the socio-political relations within the society and they benefit from globalisation phenomenon while delivering their message and execution of their plans.
What the westerners should do in order to confront such wave of violence and hatred? First, they should give up supporting such rotten regimes like Saudi, Egyptian, Jordanian and Yemeni governments, who are the worst among freedom-violators. The enrgetic interests of EU, US and Israel have sacrificed the blood of people in these Muslim countries, where there is not a single legitimate ruler at all.
Second, quit supporting Israel which exists against all legalities of the UN and which is the artificial formation which has never taken place in history.
Third, attept serious and decisive steps towards Tehran nuclear issue. The key to Middle east problem is three I's - Iran, Israel and Iraq. While resolving these three one can finish the "terrorism" at all.
Thus, the West should give up its double standard policy which can boomerang and hit itself, just like 9/11, but as some analysts suppose, the only difference will be the scale of future attacks. The casualties are to be enormous in compariosn with 2001 attacks in America.
It is the time to introduce serious changes, based on rejecting the existing state of affairs in Muslim world.

Answer 6

Terrorism is not an enemy or a person or a state or a society. Terrorism is a tactic. But the word "terrorism" has emtional impact so George Bush uses it to try to scare the American people into giving up their freedom in order to have his Big Brother government protect them from this imaginary enemy.

Sane people do not fight tactics, they fight enemies. Terrorism is a tactic. It is typically employed by a weaker combatant against a stronger one.

Then there's "terror". Terror is not an enemy. Terror is an emotion. Who controls your emitions? You do. Proclaiming a "war on terror" is a major league scam.

Answer 7

You can see it. If you read about History. You can see the expansionist policies of the Western European Countries into Northern Afica and you can see just how they have produced an enormous amount of antagonism within the populace of these countries. The USA is an extension of Great Britain and it has followed along the path which GB set for it to follow. It is all about exploitation.

Answer 8

Ever since the kidnapping of the Israeli Olympic team the US and Israel has worked thru its propaganda machine (media) to subconsciously associate Terrorism with Islam. For 30 years this has gone on and now there is a justification for the misnomer. This is why Israel continues to force the US to use its veto in the UN to deny the UN from issuing a universal definition of Terrorism. Never mind the fact that Israel and the US will be in violation.....~~~~W

Answer 9

You fight it where it lives, which is not only in the hearts of men, but the places they choose to set up house. Terrorists gather together to seek out others like themselves and take action. We fight them where they gather, we fight them where they train. If it were only an idea that never gathered steam and didn't take solid shape we wouldn't have to worry about it. As someone else here pointed out, freedom is only an idea also. Yet we have a country where we practice it.

Answer 10

Terrorism is not an idea, it is a tactic. We are not at war against terrorism, but against Islamofascism, an ideology. It is difficult to fight as we are seeing. The fact that is is dificult does not mean the we shouldn't fight it. The future of civilization is at stake.

Answer 11

You try to NOT reach the point of terrorist activity by recognizing why it comes to exist - after fighting for "this" and"that" - and attempt a better, less DESPERATE method of communication which is more peaceful and ALL-PEOPLES minded.
I believe terrorism is the last-leg result in bringing attention to an issue present.
It is destructive to the point of complete irrationality because it has reached, a "devil-may care", desperation!