When we think about terrorism we most often think about the horrors of a Manchester-like attack, where a radicalized suicide bomber went into a concert hall and killed dozens of innocent civilians. It was an inexcusable act of savagery and it certainly did terrorize the population.
What is less considered are attacks that leave far more civilians dead, happen nearly daily instead of rarely, and produce a constant feeling of terror and dread. These are the civilians on the receiving end of US and allied bombs in places like Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Somalia, and elsewhere.
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Last week alone, US and “coalition” attacks on Syria left more than 200 civilians dead and many hundreds more injured. In fact, even though US intervention in Syria was supposed to protect the population from government attacks, US-led air strikes have killed more civilians over the past month than air strikes of the Assad government. That is like a doctor killing his patient to save him.
Do we really believe we are fighting terrorism by terrorizing innocent civilians overseas? How long until we accept that “collateral damage” is just another word for “murder”?
The one so-called success of the recent G7 summit in Sicily was a general agreement to join together to “fight terrorism.” Have we not been in a “war on terrorism” for the past 16 years? What this really means is more surveillance of innocent civilians, a crackdown on free speech and the Internet, and many more bombs dropped overseas. Will doing more of what we have been doing do the trick? Hardly! After 16 years fighting terrorism, it is even worse than before we started. This can hardly be considered success.
They claim that more government surveillance will keep us safe. But the UK is already the most intrusive surveillance state in the western world. The Manchester bomber was surely on the radar screen. According to press reports, he was known to the British intelligence services, he had traveled and possibly trained in bomb-making in Libya and Syria, his family members warned the authorities that he was dangerous, and he even flew terrorist flags over his house. What more did he need to do to signal that he may be a problem? Yet somehow even in Orwellian UK, the authorities missed all the clues.
But it is even worse than that. The British government actually granted permission for its citizens of Libyan background to travel to Libya and fight alongside al-Qaeda to overthrow Gaddafi. After months of battle and indoctrination, it then welcomed these radicalized citizens back to the UK. And we are supposed to be surprised and shocked that they attack?
The real problem is that both Washington and London are more interested in regime change overseas than any blowback that might come to the rest of us back home. They just do not care about the price we pay for their foreign policy actions. No grand announcement of new resolve to “fight terrorism” can be successful unless we understand what really causes terrorism. They do not hate us because we are rich and free. They hate us because we are over there, bombing them.
We’re probably creating terrorists, but let’s not pretend that they wouldn’t otherwise exist. They follow a religion that demands jihad – and not just “lesser jihad”. A percentage of the adherents of any religion will try to follow that religion fully. Couple that with a regard for the Islamic wars of conquest as “the good old days” and you’re going to have terrorism. In fact, terrorism is child’s play compared to the horror of actual Islamic invasion. Ask the Hindus. The colonial powers made the mistake of extending a kind of quasi citizenship to their subjects. Tell a bunch of Pakis that some English lady is their queen and next thing you know, they want to live amongst you, providing a foothold for their vile religion.
Iska Waran said:
“We’re probably creating terrorists…”
Ya think?
You can lay the birth of modern Islamic terror at the feet of Zbigniew Brzezinski and the CIA (the USG).
Does any serious thinking person believe Islamic Terrorism today operates in a vacuum??
The USG created this monster back in the ’70’s as a proxie against the USSR. Today, the USG still supports/nurtures it because it has uses (like taking away your freedoms/liberties, transferring wealth to the MIC/Security racket, and overthrowing secular Islamic countries).
You want to stop this madness? Cut off it’s funding.
But alas… that’s bad for business!
See if you can vote your way out of this shit!
A rhetorical question that has been, is and will be answered the same exact way as long as the Empire known as “Murica” is allowed to exist. Dr. Paul, as usual, hits the nail on the head with his analysis.
Another answer Ron is that it’s producing the results they want. War is the health of the state. So what that 22 kids were blown to smithereens? Child’s play (excuse the cruel pun). They killed 500,000 kids under 5 in Iraq not that long ago. See anyone pay a price for it? The opposite is true-they made even larger sums of loot and are paraded before us on tv like so many sages.
Where would I verify that 500,000 kids under 5 stat?
And who is defined as the “they” that did it?
anonymous.
You know dam well who “THEY” are.
When are you going to get a name so “YOU” can be held accountable for stupid comments that give the SMART Anonymous a bad name.
Where? From the horses’ (read Nag’s) mouth:
Blowback may be part of it, but I think Dr. Paul needs to study Islam more thoroughly. From what I understand, from what I have studied to date, Islam wants to establish the caliphate worldwide by saturation through migration . I’m still doing research, so I may be off and it is a “religion of peace”.
There is Jihad, and there is blowback, but continuing to feed troops and treasure into the abyss with half-assed ROE’s, no plan, and no will to win, is stupid and criminal.
Mike Murray said:
“…with half-assed ROE’s, no plan, and no will to win, is stupid and criminal.”
It is indeed criminal, but not stupid if you are part of the USG/Deep State.
It’s all about money and control. Your money leads to your control!
Ain’t America grand!!
Cue Lee Greenwood.
“where at least I know I’m free…”
Gotta go now!… I feel the peristaltic wave moving in reverse!!
TPTB are fighting Islam like they fought Communism in Korea and Vietnam; ie, fighting in the sense of human destruction but not to actually win and go home. TPTB will expand and drag this war on terrorism out as long as they can.
War on terror , poverty , drugs , homelessness : it’s all USG BULL SHIT ! In an effort to maintain a comfortable lavish life for a ever shrinking circle of “insiders” , we on the outside must be stripped of our wealth and freedom for our own good . We the great unwashed are being protected from …? Protected from the truth about the military industrial complex and its war on the American an people . This is a treasonous war creating millions of parasitic employees that will defend the powers that be while feathering their own nest with our children and grandchildrens birth rite . Our free republic has been traded for decades of lies promising s things that the “THEY” we all speak of , with no intention of delivering .
Examine and research where our country was at the end of WW 2 and where we are now as a prosperous nation for the benefit of the majority of citizens .
We have bombed , plundered and killed people in many far off lands at an enourmous cost of blood and treasure to ourselves with no gain and all pain for American families . Our young people serving in the military are duty bound and patriotic and are tragicly being used like Dixie cups for the enrichment of the circle jerk of : Wall Street to K-Street to Capitol Street to the Pentagon . All loaded with a series of revolving doors . Military people remember your oath , enemies foreign and domestic and think who in this world today really needs to be stopped by force !
Ron Paul has discovered the perfect formula for losing a war. Do nothing that could possibly inflict non combatant fatalities. It would be so much cheaper and easier if we just surrendered like the French.