Does a good economy help to reduce terrorism?
146725
Potential terrorists are not hanging around talking about how miserable their lives are and are making money for their families when economies are good.  When the economy stinks, people are hanging out and blaming people for their problems and then they get angry about it and sometimes people think that blowing themselves up might help someone else.
848713
how bout anti-terrorism?
758672
Yes, they are great for the economy. Tax cuts allow money to stay with in the private economy where Tax money is really pulled out of it and tied up in Government controlled ventures. Government controlled ventures have no real influences on the productivity of private industry, which is where money grows. \n\nThe more availability of resources, the more money is spent in areas that money wasn't spent in before, providing greater opportunity and resources for companies to expand and develop, not to mention provide new job opportunities. They don't do that if they aren't pulling in the resources to allow for it to happen. \n\nSo, the long and short of it, it's been proposed and done under Kennedy, Reagan, and now Bush. It's how you can let the people have the resources to do with as they deem necessary. And because the people of the United States are amazing in their ability to grow and expand, it works like a charm every time.
132849
Its the ECONOMY ...how thats ? \n\nlet me first explain somthing here ...\nfor 11/9 i dont agree what happend there ...even im against it 2...yes im muslim arabian one ..but i know well my religion ...and Islam learnd us ...thats we can't kill any inesants ppl ..and whom they did 11/9 and killed more than 4,000 inesants ppl of usa ...yes they are muslims ...but they did thats in their own thoughts ...not as Islam teached us .. and God will put them in the hell not as they thinking in the heaven for what they did \n\nAnd in the same time Bush go and attack Afganstan ...and Iraq ,and as some Usa orgnisations said thats,the war at iraq ...killed more than 75.000 inesants iraqi ppl in less than 3 months by Usa weapons .\n\nso what the diffrent between BEN LADEN & BUSH ? unless if u think thats the insants ppl whom killed in iraq not human ...and the insents ppl whom killed in usa just human!!!!!!! so i think there is not diffrent ...just thats Bush have the power thats make his ppl and the others SHUT UP ...and dont do any thing for what he is going on ...\n\nnow why Bush did thats ... as we know iraq is the one of biggest countries have oil ...and usa have the most products of woapens ... So what we need now ...we need WAR thats make us sell thes weapons ..... occupied countries to have their oil's in the name of TERROR ... WHY ? bcs the COLD WAR finshed ...so we must found NEW WAR ... and he was so clever ..bcs he found thats WAR OF TERROR ..thats occupied countries kill insants ppl in the name of terror war and  democracy ...SO NO ONE CAN SAY NOP TO HIM AND HIS ADMINISTRATION'S \n\nSo the biggest propaganda to them is the Economy
1153129
Yes- no downside to that idea.\n\nTac-cuts have historically invigorated the economy.\n\nHe who governs least governs best.
815019
Absolutely.\n\nMost terrorism is conducted by the secret services, primarily CIA/MI6/Mossad/ISI.\nThe main culprit is CIA, who were at the root of 9/11.\nIf the secret services were closed down, the terrorism would stop, and most of the reasons for war would disappear. Enormous savings would be made, the world would be far more peaceful and happy, and no-one would be living in fear.\nThe only reason it is not done is that those who control the secret services make great profit out of their activities.
281653
I agree with you.  I think if their economies were more global, with more wealth for more people (as opposed to oil wealth spread amongst a few) and more participative government, then, yes, there would be less violence and strife and unhappiness in that part of the world.
503708
No. All wars have a root cause of economics and then you go from there. Money and emotions run the world.
324842
Terrorism is buisness. With out the governments and big buisness there would be no terrorism. It works the the favor the governments and big buisness. How does it benifit the supposed guilty parties and little people.... NO WAY WHAT SO EVER! ;) so who is responsible? I think we have heard the work FRAMED used before.
1067407
Of course it could.  However I don't think that will ever happen.  War is too convenient.  War is a remarkable catalyst for redistribution of funds.  A select  few in the grand scheme benefit.  War does not help the starving children.  It does however help the munition mfg. and makers of war  implements. War helps lobbyist  and the organizations they lobby for.  It also helps  political enities  who are not above a little ill gotten gold.
143969
If you mean prevent the growth of terrorists, then it would be to bring up the standard of living in poor countries and educate the people, destroy despots and introduce a free society that allows and nurtures their specific religions and beliefs without denying others. Since there will always be poverty and governments that are cruel to their own people, it will take a long time. Effectively you have to transform entire societies.\nTo prevent the introduction of terrorist activities within the US, we should adopt similar restrictions and intelligence gathering as that in other countries that are currently under siege, perhaps similar to Israel?
50824
It probably works to some degree. We've managed to prevent some terrorist actions as a result of it...although at the expense of diminishing the authority of the U.S. Constitution.\n\nI'm a believer in slippery slopes so I imagine the logical end to all of this is to preempt every potentially illegal action by putting the entire population of the country into prison...just to be on the safe side.
582254
See movie "Wag the Dog", insert Iraq as target country. If the federal government pours billions and billions into our economy, we experience positive economic growth artificially. It also can have the effect of artificially push our fuel usage to the maximun of production capability, hense rising gas/diesel prices/profits. It also has the potential to allow companies in the oil industry, where our president and vice president have their roots, to know in advance and have the numbers worked out in advance, to bid on government contracts to supply background services for that war. But ultimately, you must remember, this isn't about people making money. Its only and I stress ONLY about terrorism and people that attacked the U.S., even though they actually had nothing to do with Iraq, aside from the fact that they were muslims. We only engaged in that war to protect American citizens from a threat that wasn't really there, oops I meant perceived to be there. Notice this whole thing started from stock knives on airplanes and we are allowed to carry them on airplanes again, now that the machine is in motion.
383835
One positive benefit is the increased co-operation between various national intelligence agencies in the sharing of information and expertise in order to combat terrorism. This could be seen when a Jemiyah Islamiyah cell in Indonesia linked to Al Qaeda was stopped by information gathered by the US in Afghanistan.
608795
Great Economy. Brought Freedom to millions of people.............stopped terror networks.......\n\n\nLiberals wish they could be "failures" with that record.
883905
we have not had any terrorist attacks since the war on terror started.\nisn't that profit enough?
985430
Not really, is there a need? Will it stop terrorism? If its to stop fraud - we already have a National Insurance card and number.