Don't u think it is more appropriate to deal with the cause & not the symptoms re terrorism?

Question

I think the foreign policy plays a great role in recruiting those despaired people, who lost their homes, lands, dads, mothers & other relatives in orgenized terror of Israel & in Afganistan & Iraq daily.
* Those people has no equivellant force (Plane fighters or tanks ) to defend them selves, their leaders are betraying them, so every one of them (people) try to get his revenge in his own way.
** Why don't the powerful countries leaders try to be fair & not biased policy for once, I think that will reduce those type of despaired people to commit their actions!!!


* People who were suffering under the dictator Saddam are now missing him, as their life now completely ruined & every one of them has the chance to die every day.
* In Afganistan, people were restricted under the Taliban But they don,t die in 10s daily by the western forces!!
PLS BE REALISTIC & PUT UR SELF IN THOSE PEOPLE PLACE WHEN THINKING ABOUT THE PROBLEM!!

In Palestine:
A : the original nation of Palestine.
B : the outsider jews from Russia, europe & other countries.
* B with the support of the British 1st, killed A & deprived & deprived A from their homes & lands.
* B nowadays & with the blind support of the Americans, are committing orgenized killing, demolishing A homes.
* B is putting A under seige for years with the blind support of the UN, restricting the A's movement & making their life like hell.
* For A the death becomes better than life, so they try to defend themselves by stones & any available means, as they live in despiration.
* For A, if going to die, then it is better to get their revenge from their aggressor B & kill as much from B, as every one of A has lost members of his own family by B, & got his home demolished or land seized by the aggressor (terrorist) B.
* Be never complied with any of the UN resolutions for the past 59 yrs, and didn't comply with the agreed peace agreements with A in 1990s.
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All people should agree on one standard definition of terror & powerful governments shouldn't incite orgenised terror experienced by other terrorist governments like the one of Israel & they should show some fairness towards the victims Palestinians!

FAIRNESS IS THE SOURCE FOR PEACE

Answer 1

You hit the nail on the head.

Answer 2

I agree that the plight of those people is horrible, and it would make a big difference if policies were changed so that they were all better off. However, that's just not the way that realpolitik works. Sadly, all political actions are based on the concept of scarcity, which says "I gotta make sure I get all I need, which means you can't have all you need." This is based on the idea of limited resources -- a "zero sum game."

This means that root causes won't really be addressed, because it's better politically (for the "world powers") if the Middle East remains unstable. The only way to change that is to change the perspective of the world powers.

It's also better for internal politics (within a country) to deal with the symptoms instead of the cause. This allows governments to become more aggressive and totalitarian (because their people want to be kept "safe"), without risking the possibility that the problem will ever actually go away and thereby undermine the need for totalitarianism. Since governments all need to justify their own power, it helps when the governed believe they need the government for something.

Answer 3

IT can't go on forever. I dispute some of what you say and agree with some of it.

You are right. Palestinians dispossesed of their homes have a right to be angry. Israel has a lot to answer for, and the west needs to be even handed and make Israel comply with the wishes of the world and stop treating Palestinians so unfairly. Palestine needs to be a recognised state, with all the instruments states have at their disposal, a military etc.

As for Afghanistan, that state has had a chaotic existance for years. Leaving the Taliban in charge was NOT an option, and the west should have acted there long before 9/11 forced our hands. There will be a western presence in that country for years to come and rightly so.

In Iraq, the west got it wrong. The problem is Iraq NEEDS to be governed by a dictator. If democracy is to succeed there Iraq needs to be split along ethnic lines into a Sunni, a Shia and a Kurdish State.

Your question makes sense in parts and not in others. On the one hand you advocate direct action (Palestine) but yet you oppose it in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Afghanistan is the place where action is most accutely needed.

I also agree marginalised and desperate people can become radicalised, but this I think shows another problem. They are victims of the mullahs who radicalise them and persuade them to blow themselves to bits, while they are still alive.

Your question both supports and opposes action to deal with the cause. We are dealing with the cause. In Iraq and in Afghanistan. As for Palestine, there is one problem. The world will not feel sorry for Palestinians so long as they are attacking Isreal and abducting journalists. They need to stop doing those things, and then western nations will start to back them. The Palestinians are their own worst enemy. I can see the injustices they face, but their own mililtants make it impossible for the moderate voices to be heard.

Answer 4

We are. That's why we're helping the people rise up against their dictators who, as you say, are betraying them.

You think it is just that people who are silently accepting of the very leaders you say are betraying them should attack OTHER nations instead of rising up against the unjust leadership?

People who had special rights under Saddam now have EQUAL chance of being hurt. Under Saddam it was just other people. Of course they are complaining. Give us back our special rights! Torture and rape others all your want, Saddam, but protect us from the people who we treated terribly for decades! Silly.

No, they died because they disagreed with the Taliban and remained silent rather than die. Totalitarianism is always more peaceful. All the people who disagree are dead or fearfully hiding. Wonderful world you want, huh?

Be realistic? We are. We even believe the Islamic street! We believe them when they chant "Death to America". We've read the holy books of Islam and see what those same books say about the rest of us, and commands about "lying to infidels".

We believe them when they say that Islam, almost every single one, believes and has faith in their holy books as being completely and utterly true, without flaw or error, and that a true Islamic member should follow it completely.

After reading those same books, I am very realistic.

You will never succeed. You will never turn the whole world Islamic. We do not owe people who want to convert us, enslave us, or kills us to spread their religion.

Folks, read the holy books of Islam. Read quotes in context if you doubt them. Use pre-911 translations. Educate yourself.

Be realistic. See Islam's goals clearly.

Put yourselves in their shoes.

It will frighten the heck out of you.

Did my family. They escaped Islam in the 1950s. They pray Islam survives and flourishes, AFTER it accepts religious tolerance and freedom of speech.

Try some light reading. Link below. Read a pro-Islamic site afterwards.

Answer 5

In Iraq, under Saddam, and in Afghanistan, under the Taliban regime, people were murdered every day by the same people who were in power.

The 'governments' of the day killed their own people to keep power, by instilling fear in everyone.

As with anything in life, sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.

In a few decades, people will look back and see that what has happened, needed to happen. History will show that our generation did the right thing for humanity.

Answer 6

It may be appropiate but in no way practical. These terroists are nuts who are taking action by killing innocents. Think of the present--we must stop them, now! Then, deal with making life safer. This will take many years to educate the young people that we are there to teach freedom for everyone.

Answer 7

What are the motives of terrorism, then? you assert it fairly is dissatsifaction with the West - yet is that authentic? the u . s . a . and the united kingdom in basic terms went into Afghanistan through phobia assaults on the u . s . a .. sure, I agree that we would desire to continuously cope with the motives and between the main motives is to not breed hatred against non-Muslims. additionally, the Arab international places would desire to settle for Israel and artwork to come back to peace with Palestine. quite much less Muslim-brotherhood and a sprint greater understand probable might pass far.

Answer 8

komo,

It probably was at one time. In fact it was always considered more important to do prevention than wait for things to go south.

All that changed one day a few years ago. Americans are generally pretty tolerant. Like all things there is a limit. We have raised generations of welfare people, supported dozens of fledgling governments, supplied aid to just about everyone, taken in millions of immigrants and set them up for success, defended all kinds of moral pricipals, educated countless foreign students, etc.

What we have learned from all this is that no one appreciates us, so where should we go from here. Should we help more ungrateful, rebelious people only to have them try to destroy us or should we do what it takes to make our country livable again?

Answer 9

I think dealing with the cause needs to be part of the solution at least, just killing these people over and over isn't going to make terroroists go away, we need to find ways to motivate them not to become terrorists.

Answer 10

Try and ask them how did they created their own mess and live in misery in their own backyards?
See they can solve it themselves.
Ask them were they following our creator in the creation of living human kind into mankind of intelligent design to be the Son of God in worshiping God?
Or were they blindly following the dead Mummy of failures and horrors of the past in kicking the butts of their own children, own generation and living human kind to be the Son of a dirty old man from the graveyards of different ancestor's custom in idol worshiping the dead Mummy who was past dirty old man like you and me who made blunders and slip-ups with human errors back in the past.
Luke 6.39-40, 41-45,46-49

Answer 11

This is too heavy for conservative minds to grasp. You're going to have to lighten up. Rapture Rights can't fathom an educated society and fear the existence of one more than they fear their superstitions.