What is the main and root cause of terrorism?
I want to know the reason of growing terrorism and extremism in the world.
It’s not poverty — the 9/11 hijackers were middle class, and the guy that recently attacked the CIA outpost in Afghanistan was a doctor.
Ideology has a lot to do with it, but it’s important to realize what gave those violent ideologies their power: totalitarian dictatorships in the Middle East.
Years ago, these totalitarian regimes (especially Saudi Arabia) tried to quell dissent and distract attention from their behavior, by funding religion en masse. (As Karl Marx once famously remarked, "religion is the opiate of the masses".) Remember that the Wahhabi Islam sect that’s responsible for al-Qaeda was nurtured by Saudi Arabia’s government. Until the Saudis started funding religion, their government was the only power structure in that nation; after a while, Wahhabi Islam was well-funded and well-entrenched enough to become a second seat of power. Once they had power, they turned their attention to the real source of trouble in their lives — their totalitarian governments.
Fighting those was al-Qaeda’s original reason for being. Then, because the U.S. made deals with these dictatorships in order to secure oil supplies, we became a target.
This means that George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq, even though it was very badly done, was a stroke of tactical genius. Iraq’s previous totalitarian government is toast, and the only one that wants to see the new Iraqi government fail is the Baath party in Syria. (al-Qaeda has moved on to Afghanistan.) Keep in mind that Saddam Hussein’s Baath party controlled two nations, Iraq and Syria, and Syria has not been held accountable yet. Nearly all of the continuing terrorist attacks in Iraq are rooted in Syria.
Unfortunately, it’ll be several years before the wisdom of invading Iraq becomes obvious. Until then, George W. Bush will have to settle for being slandered now and vindicated later, much like Harry S Truman.
February 6th, 2010 at 11:05 pm
Religin…money
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February 6th, 2010 at 11:17 pm
Christianity…..This will be the final battle between the 2 religions.
You thumbs downers obviously have no clue what is REALLY going on in this world !!
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February 6th, 2010 at 11:50 pm
Some extremists believe that the lifestyles of other people are so detriment to the world that they HAVE to change their ways, and the only way of action is to force them through terror, making people feel unsafe is a darn good way to get what you want from them.
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February 7th, 2010 at 12:19 am
Religion and the desert heat is making them nuts.
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February 7th, 2010 at 12:38 am
Who says its growing? How many people die because of non-state "terrorists" per day? close to 0. compare that to ppl who get killed by the govt staged war on terror(which in itself is a myth.)
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February 7th, 2010 at 1:20 am
ignorance!
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