Is terrorism even "defendable"?

Question

I think the 'war on terror' is ridiculous. All it takes is one unseen/unknown nutcase with a grievance...

Larry c: I was only posing the question in light of using it as an excuse to be "over there" rather than stepping up our efforts "here". That seems to be the main platform of the current administration. I should have been more expansive with my question. My apologies.

Luke: Precisely the point I was trying to make.

Answer 1

It's just like the war on drugs, it will never end and there is always someone new to take over. I say bring our boys home and spend more time protecting our borders and less time policing other countries. We have the technology to spy on other countries without get all our troops killed by this scum roaming the earth. We also need to worry about domestic terrorism too, we have our very own supply of nut jobs.

Answer 2

The only defense against Islamic terrorism is an alternative to fossil fuels since funding is the be all, end all of any war, no matter which side you're on. The middle east depends mostly on oil for income, and I feel confident in saying that it is the oil rich who are, for the most part, funding the Jihadists. Without funding groups like al Qaida and Hezbollah would simply dry up and blow away.

Answer 3

There's a saying that goes, " We have to be right everytime while they have to be right just once ". That is true to a certain extent. However, if we were to stop fighting this war and allow them unchecked access to U. S. targets and interests, they could destroy this country in a matter of weeks if not days. I guess nobody ever stops to think about this war from that angle. I am disappointed in you. I thought you were more of a thinker than what you've proved to be in the asking of this question...

In response to your response to my original question; Terrorism must not and cannot be fought on one front and one front alone. It is a worldwide war and has to be fought as such. Also, this war is being fought largely behind the scenes as it should be. If the press and the public were kept up to date regarding every move made in this war, the whole effort would be sabotaged in a New York minute...!

Answer 4

Terrorism is accomplished when the designated target is terrorized! We have to put things in perspective and not let ourselves be intimidated.

That said, we must continue the fight, throughout the world, to offer those whom are oppressed, a chance for their undeniable right of freedom. This was written by our forefathers, as immortalized in the Bill of Rights. Martin Luther King echoed these fundamentals in some of the most powerful and eloquent words ever spoken.

More recently, this political and humanistic philosophy and directive was reiterated by Canada's Prime Minister Paul Martin, when he spoke before the UN assembly about the right and duty to intervene where ever we see a people cruelly subjugated by its own 'government'.

Terrorism ( often misconstrued as 'freedom fighting') is the embodiment of the antithesis of this concept of human rights and freedoms, and it is, as Martin insisted, our moral obligation to challenge and suppress it .

Answer 5

According to President Bush and Former Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, we will not eliminate terrorism but rather keep terrorism at a "manageable" level.

I prefer the Chancellor Bismark approach, which is to detail the demands of the most dangerous terrorists and see what can be done to accommodate/implement the interests of both your nation and the "terrorists". Very quietly you implement those policies, and presto, you tend to defang and short-circuit terrorist groups, leaving them only with the radical ideas which do not usually enjoy broad support. His approach in just 3 years with no military expenditure, deflated islamist insurgency in the Balkans for nearly 100 years.

There is no preventing some nutjob with a vial of bionasty or some pissed off graduate students with a computer virus or whom build a bomb or something but that's crime not terrorism.

Answer 6

One man's terrorism is another man's struggle for freedom.
Was the Boston tea party an act of terrorism or an act of rebellion? It depends on who's telling the story.

Violence against other people is violence against other people, and as long as we condone violence regardless of what it's called, it's wrong.

Answer 7

So what should we do? sit back and hope for the best?


We did that for 8 years in the 1990's

And we got 9/11 for it.

Answer 8

terrorism is not defendable ... but struggle for freedom through violent means is defendable but there too innocent people have to be spared..

Answer 9

No defense against terrorism

Answer 10

We've stopped attacks through listening to phone calls.. also we have taken the fight to them.