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What is the point of Terrorism?

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VBboy

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I don't understand the point of terrorism and what motivates terrorists to commit their crimes against our and other countries.

What exactly are they trying to accompllish? If they are against the United States, how can killing several thousand people help their cause? It doesn't eliminate capitalism or whatever it is they are against. Yes, it definitely delivers a certain damage to our country, but in the big picture, they change nothing.

So why don't they just give up or run their own country the way they choose?
 
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Originally posted by: iamwiz82
to terrorize people they do not like
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Yes, and the point of terrorizing people would be?...

There is no way they can monumentally change our or any other country. So what is the point? Doing a few nasty deeds, that's all?
 
In the case of North Koreans, it's to get aid money and to tell everyone, "Hey hey! Look at me! We're cooler than those Iraqis!"
 
Originally posted by: VBboy
I don't understand the point of terrorism and what motivates terrorists to commit their crimes against our and other countries.

What exactly are they trying to accompllish? If they are against the United States, how can killing several thousand people help their cause? It doesn't eliminate capitalism or whatever it is they are against. Yes, it definitely delivers a certain damage to our country, but in the big picture, they change nothing.

So why don't they just give up or run their own country the way they choose?
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They feel like they - or someone they care about - are being oppressed by another country (or even their own). Be that economic, militarily or spiritually. Because of that they see an enemy - and if you're weaker than your enemy the only way to attack and hurt them is to go for soft targets.

They hope that one day this will lead to some sort of capitualtion from their enemy. Inevitably all it leads to is a return of the hostility and then we're into the whole never ending vicious cycle that seems to dog such problems.

End result - usually some sort of negotiation or recognition needs to occur from both sides to get out of the hole they've dug.

Andy
 
Originally posted by: NFS4
FUD
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Exactly. The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize, to create Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. Why? Because over time you alter social attitudes and you may be able to modify political will.
 
The real point is to terrorize a nation/government for a political goal. But many times it just disolves into blind hatred where they are just trying to inflict damage and pain on the other side.
 
Not everyone is goal-driven in finite terms.

Terrorism seeks a guerrilla response to an otherwise unconquerable battle. Terrorist tactics can be correlated in many ways to the way America won the Revolutionary War. In terms of tactics, not circumstance, by any means. I'm aware that America's role was defensive, but when you look at the outgunned, outnumbered, and out-experienced the colonists were, they had to be sneaky to get anything done, any victory. Terrorists make similar concessions. They don't launch a frontal assault because they know that's suicide. And even their suicide bombings are done in a sneaky way.
 
Originally posted by: xirtam
Not everyone is goal-driven in finite terms.

Terrorism seeks a guerrilla response to an otherwise unconquerable battle. Terrorist tactics can be correlated in many ways to the way America won the Revolutionary War. In terms of tactics, not circumstance, by any means. I'm aware that America's role was defensive, but when you look at the outgunned, outnumbered, and out-experienced the colonists were, they had to be sneaky to get anything done, any victory. Terrorists make similar concessions. They don't launch a frontal assault because they know that's suicide. And even their suicide bombings are done in a sneaky way.
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You are referring to terrorism against a military. Terrorism is generally used against a civillian population too, to terrorize them. What you are talking about is really just guerrilla warfare.
 
Originally posted by: human2k
Yet another Anti-War vs Pro-War thread in the making.
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Are you gonna post this in every thread?
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Originally posted by: ThePresence
The real point is to terrorize a nation/government for a political goal. But many times it just disolves into blind hatred where they are just trying to inflict damage and pain on the other side.
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No, it begins as blind hatred and never wavers from that. In the modern world, terrorism is 100% non-effective. It's never accomplished a damn thing except to further ostracize the groups doing it. No matter how many bombs go off in the middle east or Northern Ireland, the terrorists have not advanced their causes a single iota. Terrorism is nothing more than an excuse to kill the people you dislike, but to phrase it in a way that sounds like it has a laudable goal. About the only thing it does accomplish is to get some know-nothing, ultra-liberal sociology students or Michael Moorer to view them as misunderstood martyrs championing a just cause. If you hate a group of people and want them dead, you become a terrorist, not because it's going to help your cause, but because now you have a reason to kill them.
 
its the ultimate FUD

look at how many anti-war people are saying "this war will just provoke more 9/11 attacks, we should give into the terrorists, give them what they want" , its already working
 
Originally posted by: FoBoT
its the ultimate FUD

look at how many anti-war people are saying "this war will just provoke more 9/11 attacks, we should give into the terrorists, give them what they want" , its already working
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Interesting. I thought the arguement was more like.

"This war will generate a lot more risk than it will neutralise - maybe we need a different strategy".

I didn't think "giving in to terrorism" was part of that.

Andy

EDIT: Hey - this is turning into a war thread, maybe this should be posted in the "merits of war" thread?
 
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