Why are fighting terrorist overseas when we have terrorist in america?
816723
The only one who can answer that question is sitting in the Oval Office (Number 6 on your list)
77968
Terrorists are a very hard to define group of people. It depends on the nation or person lobbying the accusation to define who is or is not a terrorists. Take for example, Israelis and the US have often blamed the Hamaz of Palestine as terrorists for targetting civilians but their own country men calls them freedom fighters for their effort in liberating their country. The same can be applied that the rebels in America during the war of independece were terrorists in that they target British loyal subjects. But to answer your questions not all terrorists are Muslims and not all Muslims are terrorists. Terrorists can be applied to any national as the US found out during the Oklahoma bombing or when the IRA in Ireland decided to take arms against the British. We could say that the Germans in WW2 were terrorists for conducting civilian bombing in London and even the US Air force for their bombing and destruction during the Vietnam war not for getting the Mai Lai massacre of unarmed civilians. Generally we label terrorists are those inclined to use violence to solve problems or to make demands for their cause and lead to the use of terror and the threat of violence to further their aims. It is hard to define whether their cause is a just one or another fanatical response to get what the wish for. The label of Muslims as terrorists is an inaccurate picture and generalizes and racial profiling due to fear of the unknown after the Sept 11 bombing as well as escalation of war in the Middle East.
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Terrorists don't want to rule the whole world, they just want to be in control of their own countries.  They attack the US because they think "western influence" is ruining their values, and that we're messing around in their business too much.  Keep in mind that they've said they only attack nations who are active in the Middle East, they don't attack Swedes or I dunno, Ugandans.  \n\nWell, not all terrorists.  Plenty of groups just represent minorities who are getting the shaft from their own government.  And in at least a few cases, they've actually made a difference (Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, for example).\n\nIt's the fanaticism of Middle Easterners that's scary.  And the fact that rather than attacking their own governments and people, they're attacking ours.  \n\nDoes Bush care?  I think he does...no one wants to see American citizens killed.  Does he care as much or more about looking good and living up to his father's reputation?  Probably.
773912
terrorism (the word itself is so broad) it cannot just be directed to muslims ... there are many other people that are not muslims and do not live in that territorry that are probably more against this definition of terrorism.... what kind of terrorism? against the US?
500594
but who will define 'terrorism'\n\nwhen the same groups were fighting in afghanistan against rusia, they were friend of america and US was supporting them\nbut when america no longer needs them they are terrorists?
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We have fostered most of the terrorism ourselves.  We started and funded Osama in Afghanistan, training many of his people.  We funded and supported Saddam, even when he gassed the Kurds.  We support dictatorships all over the Middle East, while lusting after their oil.  We establish military bases from Israel to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan.  We are trying to bully the region.  Our presence used to be just arrogant.  Now I can't imagine the words the locals use for us.  We are despised across the region for the hypocrisy and imbalance of our  policies, and now we have invaded two of their neighbors, in one without any just cause.  Our next threat is to Iran.  We must examine our own behavior before  we go tossing out terms like terrorist.  We have terrorized more people, and for a much longer time, than anyone has terrorized us.  The weapons  you speak of  are in our own hands.  Perhaps we might just consider putting them down.
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People are different in their thinking and they will express themselves in a positive and negative ways.Terrorism is no different and he or she will do what it take to make their message across.America is a land of freedom but we have outside and homegrown terror isms.The homegrown is dangerous as well as the outside terrorism.Most of the time people mixed politics with religions,and most of terrorism's are religion fanatics   \nand they will kill themselves for their belief especially in the name of their God......In America we do witness the Christian right when they protest for abortion and now we are seeing the terrorism outside the U.S. We the American need to let our lawmakers know that our foreign policy needs to be in the middle.No more selling weapons and push the Arabs fight the Jewish.American has to stand tall in justice otherwise we have to fight these terrorism until the day we die.
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there's a war on terror, but we're definetely not doing too well.\nwe're focusing on the middle east. what about countries like North Korea??? they have weapons, and guess what, we're not doing anything about them.\nand then there are the terrorists in our own country. remember the Oklahoma City bombing and Tim McVeigh?
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If the Iraqis do not really take responsibility for their safety (and quit aligning themselves with militias)?  You'll get a country that harbors terrorists.  And a less safe America.\n\nOn the same token, Osama Bin Ladin called for a fatwa against America because we built bases in "holy land", so there is no right answer.  We stay we lose, we leave we lose. \n\nMoral of the story? \n\nDon't start wars with countries that have little or nothing to do with terrorism, because then people use that as a rallying cry to recruit more terrorists (read the NIE).
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To answer your question, yes. If other countries were attacked by lets say "U.S. terrorist", why shouldn't they be able to do what the U.S. is doing in the name of "War Against Terrorism." Would it be a wise choice, no, but I don't see a difference, they want to protect their territory, just like we want to protect ours.  They have their beliefs and live their lives accordingly, just like the U.S. have their beliefs and we live our lives accordingly.  We (U.S) will not let anyone dictate how we should live, so how dare the U.S. dictate how another country should live!\n\nAND I still want to know WHERE THE HELL IS BIN LADEN!  That's who we were going after, that's who I was told was responsible for Sept 11th; here we are almost five years later and NO Bin Laden, and he's still making tapes! What a damn joke!...The so call plan was to go after Bin Laden and his crew, at least that's what I heard from Mr. President, but now we (U.S.) seem to have shifted priorities.
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Ha they have no plan for fighting terrorism. To them, it seems logical that if they leave terrorists alone, the terrorists will return the favor. Many liberals believe America is at fault for terrorist attacks, that our culture and ways provoked the Muslim extremism. \n\nBut murder and terrorism is never the solution, especially in a country such as this.\n\nTo canukinsocial's statement: that is exceptionally inaccurate. CIA and NSA have intercepted hundreds of threats against the United States, and although they are certainly sometimes a bit slow, that is why they need a larger budget. So that can improve.
305566
Because it's a very effective way for weak groups to challenge much more powerful enemies. Terrorism has probably existed for as long as there's been conflict...it's just one tactic that is effective in certain circumstances.
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It's logic....considering 9/11.  We are concerned with lowering our incidence of another attack.  And the Arab World in general hasn't been so friendly to us either....why with all the people so willing to strap a bomb to themselves and walk into a place where they could kill 20 Americans......It doesn't seem that other regions of the globe are so willing to do the same.....wouldn't you be concerned??
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Terrorists are products of Americana's aggression.
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There is a difference between Islamic Fundamentalists and Islamic Fundamentalist  Terrorist's.  The terrorist'sare spread out between all the Muslim Countries, yet there is no country that is terrorist alone.  So we actually have a war against an ideal and not against a particular country.  The terrorist backing is growing and the fact that they use things such as the political cartoons as reasons to get thousands of people to protest over them.  One does not know exactly who the enemy actually is.  That is what terrorism is all about one minute everything looks completely innocent and the next you have been attacked and there is nobody left on sight to go after, they have died completing their mission.  Can we surgically remove all of this cancer on mankind without killing many innocent?  It is not very likely but it is the direction that we have taken this war.  We certainly have the weapons to remove all of the people of this region of the world several times over.  One must wonder if the terrorists are not also playing to the hearts and minds of the rest of the Islamic Fundamentalist's when many of the rioter's of the past week have chanted bin Ladens name and asked for retaliation against the western world to be carried out by him.  It would seem to me that our government certainly must be looking at these incidents very carefully.  I can not speak for the rest of the Western World, however I know that the U.S. has the power to destroy the world several times over and could certainly remove most Islamic Fundamentalist's in one swift blow and it is our restaint in wanting to be fair that keeps this from happening.  Most of today's terrorist activity is being aimed at other Muslims and not at the western world, which raises a whole list of other questions.  The answer to your question is the U.S. is not afraid of standing up to Islamic Fundamentalist Terrorist's, however that does not include the entire Muslim population in the world.
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the same reason why we are in on the war on terror......\n\n\nbecause we can
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Terrorists generally don't have turf. At most, they have small compounds out in the wilderness, kind of like local militia groups.\n\nWe're not fighting terrorists in Iraq, and only partially in Afghanistan. We're fighting against two or more sides of a multi-way civil war. \n\nThere is no proof that what we're doing in Iraq will have any effect on terrorist activities outside Iraq, and no evidence that if we weren't there those people whould be doing anything outside Iraq. Even the Pentagon admits that Iraqis weren't the primary terrorists in any attacks outside Iraq over the past decade. So there's no support for the argument that by fighting them in Iraq we're preventing them from attacking somewhere else.\n\nWe're not fighting terrorists on their own turf now. We're fighting someone else entirely, and the terrorists who are going to attack overseas are already probably overseas. That's the problem.