Saturday, July 16, 2005

Terrorism and Suicide bombers

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As many may know, I have asked for creative ideas to stop terrorism. I don't want to blame people for them, I don't want to talk about who is right and who is wrong. I just want creative solutions. So I watched a program discussion on suicide bombers. It was a discussion on Tucker Carlson's MSNBC show with guest author Robert Pape who recently wrote "Dying to Win" on apparent motives of suicide bombers. Here's a sample of the dialogue: "Over 95 percent of all suicide terrorist attacks around the world since 1980 have in common not religion, but a clear strategic purpose, to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland or prize greatly."

..."We have advisers in over 100 countries. But if you look around the world and you try identifying where we have combat troops stationed, that is, large combat troops, tanks, fighter aircraft, you’ll see that they’re heavily concentrated in the Persian Gulf. And I’m not saying that foreign occupation is the only condition. That’s a necessary condition."

For a full transcript on the show go to: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8572027/

Now the obvious non creative solution: Withdraw all of our forces in the Middle east, especially Iraq and Afghanistan, and any remaining in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Quater and other neighboring countries. Not going to happen in my lifetime or yours, is it? So here we are. Are there any creative suggestions from my readers?

1 Comments:

Blogger MadMan said...

Here's a thought. Remind every one of the young people in the affected areas that the only use the mullahs have for them is to die. They have no value in creating a new just society or a vibrant economy.

Sometimes showing people the hard truth helps. In the case of the "occupied" countries the people are angry because they can't live as well at home as mainstream Americans do.

We owe them nothing. They owe us nothing. But to keep peace in the world we need to set our own national standards.

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