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Originally Posted by n0nsensical
I tend to think the best way to respond to terrorism is to completely ignore it. Yea, when I walk out my door today, I might get crushed by a vending machine or blown up by a bomb, but it's not going to stop me.
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Whoa. It won't stop you, huh? Thank supernatural magical champions like our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ that you're not running for office.
I think part of the reason that terrorism is so successful in this modern world is the lack of a "gung ho" (all together) society in so many parts of the better-to-do capitalistic me-me-me world. Like the limp-wristed flag-wavers after 9/11, as soon as anything hits us... we flip out and demand somebody else do something (i.e. super flop response to victims and survivors of VA Tech). If it hits our neighbor? We check our insurance policy and do the "maybe they deserved it" thing.
The intense sensational media coverage only acts to create secondary victimization and propagates the terrorist's wishes: getting attention for their batshit cause. Government clusterfucks like the UN prevent the necessary sledgehammer type action required to deal with immediate threats and political/religious/nyuck-nyuck ideals prevent governments from working together to repair the societal needs factors that cause terrorism: poverty, persecution, bored teenagers, etc. We talk about terrorism like it is a some sort of masked bipedal entity. Terrorism is like homelessness: a social problem that can be cured by social means. Boxcutters and Daisycutters aside... terrorism is often about poor people and religious nuts who see no other means by which to change their lives and need an enemy to fight in order to feel a sense of life purpose.
Thanks. I'll start busting out Sun Tzu and Clausewitz for my next act.