What is your solution to Terrorism?

Where do non-partisans vote?

Send in our Israeli allies to remove the problem. Remember Munich?

 

The only "solution to terrorism" is to completely change human nature. Without a massive shift in basic human thought and behavior, there is no "solution". Ergo, we have four choices:

1. Give in to them
2. Accept it when they do bad things to us and our friends, and pray/hope it never effects us personally
3. Make the backlash so painful for the terrorists that they quit trying
4. Wipe them out

There are gradations between the four. Any negotiation gets placed somewhere between 1 and 3. Military response falls between 2 and 4.

As long as there are philosophical differences between groups (be they religious or whatever), there are going to be humans who do bad things to other humans in an attempt to make a point or force the other humans to believe the same way.

 

"If your a Republican vote here.
Fight
Fight somemore"

(The typos are so fitting... Anyway.) What a great idea! You start: go kick Limbaugh's fat nice person, then let him kick yours.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(glenhead @ Aug 30 2006, 09:30 AM) [snapback]311563[/snapback]</div>

There is also improving education and promoting secularism and universalism. These would be so long term that it would escape most politicians.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Alric @ Aug 30 2006, 09:52 AM) [snapback]311575[/snapback]</div>

Agreed, for the most part. My only slight disagreement is that it's not just politicians that it escapes, it's human beings as a whole. All this stuff would require a massive change in human nature as it exists today. We would have to see a complete turnover of the basic tenets of most of the world's religions, not to mention those of the governments in control of a huge portion of the world's population. It would also require a relinquishing of the power held by the leaders of those religions and governments - can you see that happening?

Education only happens when it is allowed to. Education that opposes the tenets of the "in charge" governments and religions ain't gonna happen without big change.

Secularism and universalism are 180 degrees out of phase with the vast majority of religions. Religions exist because they provide a haven of belief and security for their followers - explanations of where the individual fits in the overall scheme of things. These explanations involve concepts way too abstruse for most people to develop their own beliefs - it's easier, and far more comforting, to hear someone else explain things to you. People aren't going to give that up. The fact that most people are exposed from birth to a religion (or political structure that prevents it) means that it's deeply ingrained in their basic mental structure, and changing that structure from outside is nearly impossible. Human nature being what it is, when you get two people from two belief structures together, there's a good chance you'll end up with "I'm right, you're wrong" at some point, and then things go rapidly downhill.

Until there is no longer an "I'm right, you're wrong" attitude left in the world, terrorism is going to exist. Even things as relatively "simple" as reproduction, treatment of animals, and the ecology can lead people to terrorism. There will always be people who believe so strongly in something that they will resort to violence to get their point across; unless, once again, there is some sort of radical shift in human nature.

Whoa, bloviation mode off. Sorry.

 

The symptoms of Mad Cow disease include dementia and psychotic behaviour. Just so you know.

 

There's also reducing globalism, and maybe reducing the value of such commodities as oil by reducing international deman for such. There will always be something to fight over though, and always someone to fear or hate.

 

"OTHER" due to limited range of choices.

 

Well put topic, must have hit close to home as they are side stepping the issue and attacking the spelling issue :blink: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


Good one Wildkow..! [attachmentid=4709]

 

Terrorism is directly linked to poverty. The current terrorists operate on simplistic impulses by perverting religious dogma.

1. Eliminate globalism

2. Absolutely minimize the use of fossil fuels and make a focused switch to renewable, sustainable energy sources (conservation, wind, hydroelectric, solar, fusion).

3. Invest in community-based transportation (both long- and short-range) with a human focus.

4. Acknowledge the complete energy costs of every thing we do (vs. subsidies for waste).

In effect, eliminate any economic excuse for terrorism while investing in a robust, sustainable society (food, housing, business, transportation, education) that is human-centered. Model what we supposedly teach.

 

Spew on, Wildkow, and completely ignore the input of everyone who's posted with an answer to your question that doesn't jive with your narrow view. It will only encourage more of us to ignore you, so you're effectively censoring yourself with that attitude.

I think the fact that there are a bunch of posts but only a couple votes so far shows that most of us think, even in the spirit of sattire, that you didn't present choices that would even be good fodder for conversation or fun.

You also broke your own rule with that diatribe.

 

I wanted to vote "spelling lessons for Wildkow" but couldn't find the choice.

Hint: "some" and "more" are two individual words. This comes from a guy who can't spell his way out of a paper bag, so there you go.