what was the start of "terrorism" in the world? whats was its root cause? what could have been done to "nip it in the bud"?  what is your most CIVILIZED [ but realist] solution to todays problem?... ok its a 4 part question. be part of the solution for all the points.   ps for more points help me out with some responses to questios on my "home"
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Terrorism  started in middle east with palestines and jews.   They'd attack civilians for intimidation.  To nip it in the bud, there should've been mass education about its negative effects and moral consequences.  Also, take out the leaders of the terrorists.  \n\nToday, America and other western countries must stop attacking other religions and exploiting 3rd world countries.  They should also stop killing others.  Killing creates a need for revenge.  That is why they are attacking.\n\nIts a vicous cycle of escalating violence.  You kill my family, I will kill you.  You kill that individual and then someone else wants revenge.  And on the loop goes
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Not sure what the question is?\n\nI forgot the name of that recent report that officially stated the Iraqi War had created and was still creating more terrorists. So, you make a valid point.\n\nDo I care about what has happened and this creating terrorists? Of course I do... I want us to get OUT of there.
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Terrorism is not new.  The weapons and options of the terrorists are more powerful as society advances.\n\nThere is a little known amazing act of terrorism that occurred in Michigasn during May of 1927:\n\nhttp://www.msu.edu/~daggy/tbsd/\n\nSpeaking as a person of broad education (science and humanities, acquired on my own), I think the future will involve better education in ethics and morality and identifying and controlling potential criminals and terrorists.\n\nThere is currently great failure in both these areas.\n\nThere are too many people who are deprived of education and opportunity, but many terrorists are not from these.\n\nA terrorist is mostly a very evil person who does not know how to work for a better world.\n\nWhy don't you explore the motivations of the man involved in the Michigan incident, also a suicide, and see how it matches modern profiles, Timothy McVeigh, others.\n\nThere was a man in Colorado who drove a bulldozer around inflicting millions of dollars of damages, also killed himself.\n\nTerrorists who wish to inflict great damage while killng themselves.  Needs some good analysis.\n\nPlease study this for us.  I am already working on other things, cannot help, sorry.\n\nIt is far from being solely an Islamic fundamentalist problem.
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Janeyfre . . . whenever anyone attempts to find answers to horrible occurrences, it does not make them "Liberal".   Failure of one group (small or large) to understand the grievance of another lead to fiction.    The amount of friction it causes can be small or great.   If one side is ignorant to certain cultures of the other, and ignore these aspects of life, one stands a chance to offend and make it seem to the offended that it was due to lack of respect.   (Be it with fanatics or even a moderate society).\n\nThe fact that 9-11 happened should educate us that we obviously pissed a group of people off, enough to get them to kill themselves and take thousands of lives with them.   We called them cowards.  The people who supported their actions called them Martyrs / Heroes.  No one questions what caused 19 people to take their lives?  Yes it was horrible, yes, it was the wrong thing to do, yes, we need to find a way to prevent it from happening again, but in choosing to defend ourselves, it is MOST important to learn how not to fester more fanatics/radicals who will be willing to blow themselves up as an act of revenge.  \n\nWith the middle East burning for decades, (through generations), how can we ever expect to have peace in that region if "WE" the country with the most power continue to play the game that works to promote the growth of these radicals, some of which use religion, or some that simply believe an "eye for an eye" as part of their culture, where revenge becomes their duty.?\n\nIf we can't get past the natural desire of payback, then aren't we just following their lead, perpetuating our enemy's goal. . .to make more Martyrs?  You say we are Liberals because we look for "cause and effect" (looking for excuses) in what people do.  I say if we continue to act like rednecks. . .we can expect to have people wanting to use a saw on it.   No excuses. . .just reality. . .it's a shame only a few people realize this. . .(on all sides) . . .\n\nE LIB o NATOR  Your statement about abortions show how some people can be so callous in their thinking.  This goes against the grain of rational thinking and places you in a group not centered on reality.   I would assume you believe that statement because you listen without asking questions (as a liberal would do (to find excuses)).  Try to really think about what you wrote, and then find one person that LIKES abortion. . I'll wait.   Meanwhile, do you ever do anything you do not like to do?  Have you ever had an injection?  Have you ever sat in a dentist chair?  So, just because you do these things, it does not mean you like it.  Think before you write, our view of you depends on what you state.  If you still think you are correct. . .then maybe you can understand how a terrorist mind works. . .by being BRAINWASHED and without rational thought.
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Islam is the reason for 9-11. Convert or die. World War III has begun, and it will be a religious war. Who started it? The followers of Islam. They've been at it since Mohammed walked out of the desert (oops! I said his name. I won't be beheaded will I?). \n\nSigned; Infidel for Life.
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I wasn't going to answer your question because I am not Muslim.  The question is asked of Muslims, specifically.  Looks like people put in their 2 cents worth without addressing the question. It was called a naive question by a person who would not explain her stance, but you did not ask it.... you relayed it.  You sure got alot of people excited who gave you illogical responses.  Jihad on the west began before we went to Iraq.   I'll wait to see if any Muslims give sincere answers.
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To get a RIGHT answer, you must form a RIGHT question. If you want answers to your questions the first thing you have to learn is "HOW TO FORM A QUESTION"\n\nThis is NOT a RIGHT question. \n\nStill, the answer can be either "YES" or "NO". Both are not RIGHT answers.\n\nSo, no answer.\n\nThe perspective through which the question is asked itself gives a direction to the answer. If people thinks like this then its not a "real thinking" for "real solution".\n\nNo religion (usually the main five religion as ISLAM, CHRISTIANITY, HINDUISM, JUDAISM & BUDDISM) teaches terrorism. Terrorism is NOT connection with religion. It is connected with human behaiviour and the perspective how people thinks. A WAR can form PEACE and a PEACE can be a new platform to start a new WAR. \n\nMuslims, Christians, Hindus, Jews or Buddisht - no one is terrorist. Only terrorist are terorist and they use religion to give their terrorism a name or a cause.
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Democrats have no answer to terrorism. Fighting terrorism needs guts. Pandering to the liberal media and trying to be popular will not make us safe. Tough problems need sacrifice and hard solutions. America was not built on lemon juice. We need people like President Bush.
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Where did you "hear" that being kind to terrorists in the USA is the answer?  FYI:  Muslims and terrorists are not one and the same.
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No matter which side you are on - there is a problem with militant muslims.  It started in 1983, and just grew.  The 1993 WTC bombings should've a wake up call for all americans.  We went to Afghanistan & Iraq to defend ourselves because terrorist don't have homeland.  I don't like seeing our troops, ally troops, or iraqis dying, but I'd rather have the battle fought on their land not ours.  911 was the worst attack on our soil ever.
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Wow. I'm impressed that you are worrying about such big issues rather than about the more mundane things that keep most of your contemporaries awake. I guess the only prospective I can offer you is that when enough people get concerned about problems, eventually they get solved, although there is a lot of posturing and name calling and dramatics in the process before things get worked out. When I was a kid, we used to have drills in school where we would practice what to do if the USSR dropped the bomb on us (like hiding under our desks would save us from a nuclear bomb!) and then years later, I had a Russian friend who had immigrated here after the cold war was over and she told me that little Russian school kids had been doing the same thing. Now the USSR is gone, the cold war is over, and we have new worries -- terrorists and rogue nations that have the bomb. There are economic concerns, too, but really in the greater scheme of things, I worry more about the terrorists. But I don't sit up at night worrying about it, because I am powerless to do much. (I have an occasional sleepless night when I am worried about one of my teenage kids, but I can't make them do everything I wish they would do either.) I guess I have faith that there are enough good people in the world that in the end we can make things right. One thing we all have to do is not depend on the government or anyone else to take care of us. We have to take responsibility for our own lives. I am not counting on social security to sustain me. If enough people in every generation take responsibility first for themselves and then to begin solving the problems around them, we can work it out. The fact that you are so concerned means that you can be part of the solution. Get educated, get active, and help build a better future for you and those who come after you.
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The world will never be terrorism free again.  It's a genie that's out of the bottle.  Terrorism is a tool, a weapon.  As hateful as it is, the suicide bomber was a brilliant invention; and like guns, and bombs, and the rest of our arsenals, once they've been discovered they are never going away.\n\nThis is why, by the way, a "War on Terrorism" is so ridiculous.  We can fight specific people or cultures who USE terror as a weapon.  But a war on terror is no more sensible than a war on slingshots.
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Yeah, I sort of remember that. I don't think it was a terrorist effort, but it could happen. What was the weather like? I mean, if it had happened in Texas or something it would make more sense; we have the huge winds and tornadoes, but It's weird for it to happen along the East Coast. What time of year was it? If it was winter, maybe snow from trees could have weighed down branches and then the trees could have fallen on them. I don't know what could explain it happening here and in Italy.
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K-9, I love your insight. People watch too much Fox News and CNN and refuse to do any research for themselves. Ignorance is no excuse, we all should seek truth, no matter what. My husband still proclaims what the media and government has been forcefeeding the US and the world for 4 years, and he thinks I'm insane to beleive any different. He still beleives this after he lost the use of his right leg and permanently injured his spine in combat. It's sickening how some people refuse to see the truth even when it's right in your face. They never gave any CONCRETE proof Al Qieda had anything to do with the WTC attacks. I don't buy it. I see a more sinister possibility of what likely happened...and I'm sure you do too.
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Terrorism is not up here.In my logic that says we were right the rest of the world was wrong.And also in my logic you should kill the guilty not the Innocent.\nWhy is liberal logic just the opposite?\nAs to selling peace,we were, they just didn't buy .You can't feed a tiger carrots.
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That's a little over 5 years, so is it Fair to give Bill Cinton credit for no attacks for the 7 years from 1993 to 2001? If you're logic isn't flawed both are true, also if Ronald Reagan hadn't fled Beirut would that have prevented attacks on American soil in the first place?  After all it was that incident the Bin Laden states poved to him Ameican had no stomache for casualities and escalated the threat. I can use your logic to extrapolate to the same type of conclusions you're reaching for but reach an entirely different conclusion
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that wasn't terrorism, that was guellia war fare...some thing that the ameriacn military needs to "re-learn". because that is why we sucked sso bad in vietnam, & that is what is happening to our troops now in iraq. the modern idea of terrorism, is to blow $hit up, & kill as many people as possible while doing it. back then, in the 1700's, the worst thing done was just throwcrates of tea in to the harbor. a loss of product, thus a loss of wages, but no major loss of life!