Do you believe terrorism is an imminent threat to the US?

Question

If so, why or why not?

Answer 1

If you mean jihadists running around in turbans with fuses, no.

On the other hand, wild-eyed maniacs curtailing civil liberties, ending posse comitatus and destroying due process pose an imminent threat to these United States, absolutely!

Answer 2

Yes . Of course it is a threat. Terrorism did not start with 911.
The first terrorists were the Ku Klux Klan but the modern era of foreign terrorists attacking Americans began decades ago. The World Trade Center was bombed in the 90s and so were our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and our Navy ship the USS Cole.
We face the threat of attack every day and they will attack us when they can until the political situation changes.
I am a muslim and proud to be so but I still must admit this basic truth(although with the caveat that not all terrorism comes from muslims and I don't believe my faith condones such filth).
This does not mean I believe we should go around the world making war. Terrorism is a tactic not a group and this war is ideological as much as anything.
But use your eyes and ears. Terrorists are still making threats and still trying to attack us. They have not declared a truce so the threat is definitely still there.
Remember the recent bombings in London Madrid Bombay and just the other day in Karachi. No sensible analysis could come up with the conclusion that terrorism has gone away.

Answer 3

No, not at all. It is made up so we can fight unending wars against an enemy that is an apparition. Terrorists are an elusive "enemy", so it is easy to convince people they should be fought. If the terrorists are so prevalent, why haven't they struck the US again since 9/11? A good job by an incompetent George Bush? I strongly doubt it.

The secret is there are no terrorists that want to fight us. It is contrived. Take a look at the recent attack of one of military establishments: rocket launchers were ditched, no one responsible was found. It was determined that these people had insider knowledge (due to what buildings they hit), and that there could be spies on the base. The trick is this: of course they had insider knowledge. That is because they were working for our own government! People in power stand to benefit from a war in Iran; they will bomb our own bases in order to start a war. Hitler tried that deception before WWII, it gave him an excuse to begin hostilities. And Hilter is a fascist who wanted a police state, not unlike the fascists who stand to reap monetary benefits from a war in Iran. Don't be surprised iif something happens in order to initate a war with Iran. The plan is already being implemented.

Answer 4

Yes. Definitely so.

There is some small-scale terrorism brought by street gangs that plague neighborhoods, and this is still happening today.

And even colleges are not immune to terrorism. You may have heard about the shooting rampage at the University of Texas around the 1960s. Now, deja vu thanks to the Virginia Tech shooting rampage.

Of course, high schools had been terrorist targets for what I
call "renegade avengers". So called because when these people in high school get bullied too much, their stresses boil up to the point that they literally snap usually in a barrel of a gun. The two renegade avengers who terrorized Columbine High School is a great example.

There are some lone-wolf terrorists that strongly hate the government so much. One lone-wolf terrorist, Richard Reed, who attempted to blow up a plane with a shoe firebomb, plead guilty instead of going to court. He is still imprisoned for life. He might had been inspired by the al-Qaeda terrorists. You also may have known the Ruby Ridge incident and the Waco, TX incident where American militia separtists had so much loathing of the American government that they decided to be guerrillas akin to Colombian guerrillas.

Of course, the biggest terrorist attack showed how the US was a big terrorist target. Of course, I am talking about the 9-11-2001 attack on the World Trade Center towers as well as the attack on the Pentagon.

The US had some major terrorist incidents in the past....

Chicago had its share of terrorism when the Puerto Rican sepratist group, the FALN, bombed several times in downtown Chicago (they even bombed the Chicago Theater from outside) in the 1980s.

Timothy McVeigh was alleged to be the mastermind behind the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing around 1995
in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Islamic extremists were probably responsible for the truck bombing of the World Trade Center parking garage in 1993.

Answer 5

I think the ones at home are more of a threat and I am not talking about george bush. http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_212110127.shtml
People like Cindy Sheehan are ignorant. Not just to this war, but to the results of their idiotic ramblings, or at least I hope they are. They don't realize its effects on this war. In this war, there are no Geneva Conventions, no cease fires. Medics and Chaplains are not spared from the enemy's brutality because it's against the rules. I can only imagine the horrors a military Chaplain would experience at the hands of the enemy. The enemy slinks in the shadows and fights a coward's war against us. It is effective though, as many men and women have died since the start of this war. And the memory of their service to America is tainted by the inconsiderate remarks on our nation's news outlets. And every day, the enemy changes...only now, the enemy is becoming something new. The enemy is transitioning from the Muslim extremists to Americans. The enemy is becoming the very people whom we defend with our lives. And they do not realize it.
But in denouncing our actions, denouncing our leaders, denouncing the war we live and fight, they are isolating the military from society...and they are becoming our enemy.

Democrats and peace activists like to toss the word "quagmire" around and compare this war to Vietnam . In a way they are right, this war is becoming like Vietnam . Not the actual war, but in the isolation of country and military. America is not a nation at war; they are a nation with its military at war. Like it or not, we are here, some of us for our second, or third times; some even for their fourth and so on. Americans are so concerned now with politics, that it is interfering with our war.

Terrorists cut the heads off of American citizens on the Internet...and there is no outrage, but an American soldier kills an Iraqi in the midst of battle, and there are investigations, and sometimes soldiers are even jailed...for doing their job.

It is absolutely sickening to me to think our country has come to this. Why are we so obsessed with the bad news? Why will people stop at nothing to be against this war, no matter how much evidence of the good we've done is thrown in their face? When is the last time CNN or MSNBC or CBS reported the opening of schools and hospitals in Iraq ? Or the leaders of terror cells being detained or killed? It's all happening, but people will not let up their hatred of Bush. They will ignore the good news, because it just might show people that Bush was right.

Answer 6

Most people keep their heads in the sand. It's easier that way and also is doesn't interfer with their life. It will only become their reality when the crapola hits the fan. Terrorisim is only the fuse. They will light the fuse. What happens next is by our own selves. It will be anarchy. Neighbor against neighbor. That's what coming for the US. We have become spolied, arrogant, ugly, weak brats. "Don't infringe on my rights or I'll sue you" mentality. When this comes down - know that it is the sole focus of all of the terrorist organizations - and it will. It will be like living your scariest movie. What a shallow point of reference. So American... Yea. I am concerened as a US citizen.

Answer 7

Not really.

I see terrorism a mask that conceals more pertinent societal problems (broken and corrupt bureaucracy, exploitation of the destitute and disadvantaged etc.). It is a symptom of negligence towards humanity. It is defiantly a problem but not one you can effectively combat through force.

Answer 8

The terrorist do no longer hate freedom in and of itself. What they hate is religious freedom, which potential specifically they view any faith different than their own as an abomination and a threat. Islam potential submission to Allah. Their holy e book demands them to transform, enslave or kill all who're no longer Muslim. the united states of a promotes freedom of religion and greater those days has been pushing the liberal's perceived astonishing of freedom FROM faith. the only way for the united states of a to win that's conflict on terror is to annihilate the Jihadists. The quickest thank you to do this's to stir them up like a den of snakes. As they flow slowly out from decrease than their rocks to attack we are able to wreck them. Will this create greater terrorists? of course no longer. that should be like saying construction greater abortion clinics might create greater Christian terrorists. The extremists are severe through efforts of different extremists to indoctrinate them. i haven't be attentive to somewhat Christian toddler to assert he needed to explode an abortion sanatorium. through fact maximum mainstream Christians do no longer adhere to this form of philosophy. although there have been Christian terrorists who try this through indoctrination from the anti-abortion extremists. that's no longer their reaction to abortion clinics, that's their reaction to the indoctrination of extremist ideals. battling terror and spreading freedom would not create greater terrorists. Terrorists create greater terrorists.

Answer 9

Fear is more real. If you fear, you stop moving.
The US is moving but is not making sence of its own movements . It has slow down.
Threat? Were the germanics uncivilized populis a trreath for the Roman Empirre?
No ,indirectly, they help it to change in more ways than one ...
I THINK THE US IS CHANGING, all change by force of nature is slow.

Answer 10

Ah, yeah! Because these are extremeists and will do anything possoble for the fall of the US... Look what they just did to Pakistan just for supporting the US... Any country that supports the US gets bombed.