Terrorism Here to Stay
Terrorism is here to stay. Attacks like those in England will soon spread to other countries including the United States. Two wrongs don't make a right, and three, four, five, one hundred wrongs just make dead people.
How does it stop? It will stop right after the Really Bad Thing, coming to a metropolitan area near you soon. I'll post on this tomorrow. Some sort of macroinsanity will reset our collective psyche, it might spur us to take back our country.
We could win the war on terrorism with love and compassion. Instead of bombs, if we spent money on immunization, nutritious food, education, farming, and industry in the developing world, people would look to the USA as a model and beacon. The best defense is to make the world understand that they can thrive and benefit from our technology and economy. Make them want to see us succeed. Use them to help us succeed in a synergistic relationship.
Terrorism is here to stay. The victim wants to strike out, and victimization is always felt by the party on the receiving end. We now have many sets of victims set on revenge against each other. They will continue to drive acts of violence to in the name of vengeance only to escalate the magnitude of evils perpetrated.
It will end with the Really Bad Thing, or more exactly, our response to it.
posted by Schmootzie @ 11:10 AM
1 Comments:
I just noticed that you met my alterego. Sometimes I use him to cut down conservative bloggers when I don't want them coming to my main blog.
At any rate, I wanted to say that I like your writing. All good points. I believe that terrorism cannot be defeated by war. The cycle will only continue that way (as the we saw with the invasion of Iraq).
The people with the most power to stop terrorism are the muslims of the world who don't support using their religion as an excuse to murder innocent people (and that is the vast majority of muslims in the world). They need to speak out and make people understand that--in addition to the senseless loss of life--these radical fundamentalists are making muslim communities throughout the world into targets of suspicion.
And, of course, those of us in the the West who understand that war only leads to more war need to continue to speak out against the senseless killing committed by our governments.
Okay, I think I'll stop there. I was going to just leave a short comment, but I guess your blog got my gears turning.
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