Dane Ellis Allen wrote:the Cold War perhaps is over but the War on Muslim militants is shifting towards Africa.. Al Qaida are like cockroaches if you eradicate their nests in the Middle East they simply move to a darker more sinister nest known as Africa..
I agree that al-queda (and other organizations like them) are a threat to civilized societies around the globe. I also agree they are like cockroaches.
I disagree with how we've handled them since day 1. We easily forget that we are the ones who initially funded and trained them. We forget that we are the ones who initially armed them. We forget that we are the ones who betrayed and isolated them. Our short term memory came to bite us in the ass on 9-11, as we all know.
Our response was stupid on so many levels.. we've sent and spent our payload on that response, still to this day. We continue to use a rocket launcher to kill annoying house flies. A few always fly away from the debris and spawn offspring elsewhere.
I'm no expert on terrorism, I don't have solutions, but I know a bad idea when I hear one, and so far our responses have been nothing but bad ideas. Hell... al-queda wasn't even in Iraq before we destabalized the entire country.. since then, they have taken a foot-hold and grown, proportionately with the resulting anti-american sentiments.
who is making these bad decisions? Why? My thoughts are that the obvious conclusions are usually the correct ones- who stands to gain from all this? The military industrial complex seems to fit pretty well... weapons manufacturers will continue to profit so long as these "threats" exist.. and if they grow? So do corporate profits. So what if everyone else involved suffers for it? This is where we have a serious problem.. the war machine is vast and has operatives throughout our leadership.. our military leaders are beholden to these interests. It's not a good thing on any level.
So what does this have to do with terrorism solutions? Well.. I don't know, I just know it's all connected, and while we need to do something on that side, we also need to acknowledge our own issues on this side.
I don't know what I'm implying exactly, but that to address terrorism, we need to look at more than the people committing the terrorism, and start to look at why it exists, and how we're enabling it to continue.
