BF2S Forums What do you guys think of Terrorism?

Terrorism - meh. The chances of acts of terror directly impacting upon my life are as likely as me being run over by a bus, i.e., not that likely. Terrorism is something for the police to deal with. Even in Northern Ireland you would have had to have been pretty unlucky during 'the Troubles' to actually get hurt/maimed/killed by an act of terror.

CameronPoe wrote:

Even in Northern Ireland you would have had to have been pretty unlucky during 'the Troubles' to actually get hurt/maimed/killed by an act of terror.

True, but then you were likely to know someone who was. A friend, a relative, your own child? That's why terrorism can be argued to be so effective. It is easy to create terror, for either a noble or helpless cause.

Terrorism destroyed my towers and killed way too many people and continues to...i hate it, i hate terrorists, and really hate islamic extremists.

say what you want...my opinion will not change.

our country is still polluted by terrorists, look at this from the weekend, bastards driving round in cars throwing bricks at the windscreens of random on coming vehicles.. now that's random fucking terrorism right there. There's times when I think to myself punishment beatings are nearly worth it..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7274322.stm

you cant punish a country for the actions of its private citizens.

siciliano732 wrote:

Braddock wrote:

siciliano732 wrote:

Terrorism destroyed my towers and killed way too many people and continues to...i hate it, i hate terrorists, and really hate islamic extremists.

say what you want...my opinion will not change.

You do know that the terrorists involved in the 9/11 attacks were from Saudi Arabia? A country that continues to get special treatment from the US despite this fact and the fact that the Saudi's preach Wahabism, one of the most extreme interpretations of Islam preaching hatred of the West. that would really piss me off if I were American, especially a New Yorker.

i dont give a shit where they come from, who funds them or what....this world is corrupt and i hate terrorism...doesnt matter what they look like, where they are from, and extremists alike...it just so happens the majority are Islamic.  Im an American and  New Yorker...i hate them all.

^^sorry if that comes across in a dick-ish way.  Terrorism is a very VERY touchy subject with me...i hate it and have all those who practice it...i really do.  I will never forget 9/11...i cannot walk around NYC and hear sirens and not freak out, and get stressed out and start looking around to make sure nothing is happening again...i cant do it.

I understand your strong feelings on the subject, I grew up on the border of Northern Ireland and remember vividly seeing riots breaking out in Derry and having soldiers search me at gunpoint whenever I tried to cross the border ...you build some strong opinions as a result. Global terrorism is a very complex issue, one that most countries choose to be selective with when it comes to cold, hard reality.

Islamic extremism is the most 'popular' form of terrorism in the media at the moment and Muslims provide a convenient 'bad guy' for Westerners to focus their anger on. In reality the percentage of the Muslim world that would actually advocate such extremism is very low. Some countries like Saudi Arabia promote extremism whereas other countries like Turkey and even Iran have much more moderate interpretations of Islam.

However Islamic extremism is just one small facet of the global terrorism problem. Many Belgians may not want to admit that they were responsible for selling arms to the Milosevic regime in Yugoslavia. Many Americans choose to turn a blind eye to Luis Posada Carriles, the Cuban terrorist who killed 73 people on a civilian flight in 1976, who lives happily in the US without prosecution. Many Americans also seem happy to ignore US involvement in the illegal coup attempt in Venezuela a number of years back. Many Chinese seem happy to see their country sell arms to Sudan while genocide takes place in Darfur.

Many many countries are guilty of terrorism in this world.

To me, it seems as if most Terrorism we see in the US and the terrorism we are affected by is manufactured by our own foriegn policy (what the CIA calls blow back) or actually set forth by our own intelligence agencies.  Al-CIA-Aeda FTL.

Last edited by <SS>SonderKommando (2008-03-03 16:37:32)

Maybe it would be helpful to define what is a terrorist attack and what is simply an attack using asymmetric warfare.

I like it. I think it's good to kill innocent civilians. Strapping the weak minded with bombs and sending them to their deaths is the way to go.

Terrorism is bad.








duh

Ghandi767 wrote:

Terrorism is bad...mmkay

M'kay.