The world is summed up simply, Swings And Roundabouts
every so often a country/race/religion achieves a certain amount of power and gets a hold over others, whether it be sheer imperialistic might in the form of armies, or control of products (food, oil, gold, whatever), or simply have the will to do what other people dont.
Romans, Britains, French, Americans, Christians, Communists, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Africans, Chinese, Korean, Russian, whoever, its quite simple, at some point in history all those mentioned and more have tried to conquer the world, own everything, in a lot of cases kill people they dont like, enslave people they can vaguely tolerate. Some of those got very far (Romans, Britains, Russians, Chinese) by either owning massive areas of land, or riches, or having technological advancements far superior to their rivals in that time period. Others tried but their attempts petered out fairly quickly.....
In our time, most people assume America is the pretender to the imperial throne of the world, and yes, financially America is certainly trying to be in control of things, but America is generally not too concerned with controlling things outside its world provided money revolves and oil flows. However, Terrorist groups, whether based on Religious principles, or racial principles are the ones who are defining who is in control by happily killing complete innocents without regard, and i mean without any regard. Yes Hitler killed millions of Jews, but there was a specific reason he did that, it doesnt make it ok, its simply in the form of historical fact a justification on his part. However the Terrorists kill innocents for no reason other than to inspire fear to get what they want. They are willing to go to those lengths, and in some cases no doubt even enjoy doing it, others might not like doing it, but indoctrination carries them on the flow to completion. The rest of the world reacts in the only way, hunt down and kill all known terrorists and terrorist supporting countries, America lead the way by going into Iraq but as we know a large amount of that was Oil based. However, Terrorists dont just live in one nice neat country that we can go into and shoot, bomb, nuke whatever, nope, Terrorists have evolved in to the modern world, they have immersed themselves into societies in various countries, generally being your nice friendly neighbour nextdoor, im not just talking middle eastern based groups, but IRA or Chechnians or whoever/whatever (scuse my spelling on the names). So how do you fight the person who is actually a colleague at work, yet secretly planning on bombing the bank up the road to get funds to support their group? You cant, you try, you work with intelligence to track down as many as you can, but ultimately, unless all the religious groups, countries, etc work out their differences and agree total peace and harmony and to reveal all knowledge they hold about Terrorist groups they are aware of, nothing will happen. Untill sometime waaaay in the future when one Terrorist group has prevailed, gotten itself somewhere, used a dummy front to be in control of the public relations for them and stuck themselves in one place like a country with land, people and finances. Then when that happens (could be 10 years, 50 years or 100 years) the downtrodden (which are usually where rebellion starts, and are in some cases originally the ones who were in control before they got taken down a few pegs) rise up against their oppressors and it all happens again, maybe the next it will be all out war if nukes dont exist, if they do, then back to the geurilla style conflicts and Terrorist activity. No group is ever right, because quite simply everyone has their own opinion on everything.
9/11 was a terrorist act, in my opinion its a cowardly and vicious attack. Its also a very effective attack. I dont think anyone should ever commit such things as that. If you want to fight, organise a small war and let the people who like to shoot real people get it on. Leave the rest of us alone, all we want to do is wake up, go to work, or look after our kids, come home and have dinner, maybe go out and catch a movie, or go to a bar, or just relax at home, in the knowledge we can do the same again the next day and wont find ourselves buried beneah a pile of rubble that some fools C4 bomb has created.
I can live happily with anyone around me, race, religion, class or intelligence has no meaning to me, we are here, so why not just get on with enjoying it.
edits: simply a spelling mistake that made a difference..
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