Global Terrorism? Islamic Fundamentalism? Iran? Afghanistan? Taliban? Al Qaieda? (sp?) (That and other potential crime-related problems with immigration)
These are some of the problems still posed to the world since 9/11, 7/7, the Madrid Train bombing, etc. How would you deal with it and what would you like to see done (Gov't policy, counter-terrorist measures, etc)?
There is no real getting rid of the bolded one's without resulting to extreme measures. But I'll get back to that.
As for Iran and Afghanistan, the problem is very complicated. Both of these countries, more so Afghanistan, are very poor have weak governements. No country will ever succeed without a strong governement of some kind.
Some type of reasonable gov. needs to be put into the countries for them to be stablef, which is being done now. To do that, again, is easier said than done. Getting rid of the Tailban is just the first problem. There is the Opium production which exists which if I'm not mistaken, produces 95% of the worlds heroin. The people of the country live in poverty, and there will always exist extremist groups who would kill anyone against theiir ideals.
The funny thing is, if the Middle East wasn't valuable (hint, hint oil), no one would care. It will be interesting to see what happens to the Middle East when Fossil Fuels become obselite. I'd imagine it would start to look like parts of Africa.
People hate on America for going in and trying to do some good, but if they didn't enter countries like Iraq, Iran, and Afganistan, no one would. Lunatics would be able to run free, and countries wouldn't be able to create new governements and infostructures to a certain degree. However, if the U.S. didn't enter these countries, a lot of lives, many innocent would not have died. But then again, perhaps the people that the U.S. killed would kill these innocents?
Overall, to fix Afganistan and Iran, someone needs to help the people who don't believe in killing everyone gain power. To do that though, they would have to use violent means, Via la Revolution? Once you kicked out the old powers, you would need to create a stable infostructure. Democracy, Communist, Socialist, Dictatorship, whatever, as long as the people in the country are better off than they are now, and the Government isn't as corrupt as it is now.
As for Islamic Fundementalism, well Fundementalism exists in every religion, and it's not relgions fault, there are just sick people out there. That won't stop until those people all die sad to say, so there is really no peaceful solution to solve Fundementalism because those people aren't looking for peace. If people gave into all of thier demands, they would be no better than slaves and robots.
Finally, there is Global Terrorism and Al Queda. These people don't care if they live or die, they believe sucide for the right reasons will grant them entrane to Paradise. How do you deal with that?
Some might not want to here it, but you have to become them, practice their beliefs, and do what they do to you, to them.
Torture will work, Ask any POW, some of the most hardass men on the planet made to cry for their mother because of torture.
If anyone has ever seen the movie Swordfish, you will know this quote, it's paraphrashed so bare with me.
"How do you stop terrorists? You make them so afraid to do what they do, that they will never think about doing it again. They kill 10 of your people. You kill 100 of their. They blow up a bus. You blow up a building. The bomb a building, you bomb a city."
The idea is to make terrorists so afraid of their consequences that they would never wish to do anything like it again. I'm not talking about bombing buildings to kill terrorists. I'm talking about leveling cities, leaving no survivors. Leave nothiing. You find their families and you kill them, you torture them, you do anything to break them. Do it in front of their faces if you have to.
Fear is a powerful tool that can be used against even the most brave of men. Killing them doesn't always do it, sometimes you have to kill what they love, kill what they fight for. Kill a thousands to save millions. Not a bad trade off if you ask me, it's quite rational.
But, if we become our enemy, become what we are fighting, what the hell are we fighting for? What's the point if we become the monster we swore to destroy?
But perhaps that sacrafice is neccessary. Perhaps a few must become monsters so that others can live in peace. Perhaps some innocents must die, so many others can live in peace. The answer is, is it neccessary? Is there a better way? I'm open to all intelligent ideas.
