No. If you want to defeat terrorism, you ensure that terrorism is devoid of any meaning and that it is regarded as taboo as cannibalism.
Nothing personal, but it is your sentiments are misguided. I appreciate that you spent a great deal of time composing that post, but trying to defeat terrorism by attempting to "understand its roots" is a liberal pipe dream.
Take for example, the beheading of Nicholas Berg. They said that they did it in retaliation for the rape of a woman by a group of American servicemen.
If they didn't have an alleged rape as their self-proclaimed cause to behead over, it would have been the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan.
If it hadn't been the Occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, it would have been Iraq sanctions.
If it hadn't been Iraq sanctions, it would have been Infidels in Saudi Arabia.
If it hadn't been Infidels in Saudi Arabia, it would have been the treatment of the Palestinians.
If it hadn't been the treatment of the Palestinians, it would have been support of Israel.
If it hadn't been support for Israel, it would have been colonial partition of the Middle East.
If it hadn't been the colonial partition of the Middle East, it would have been the Crusades.
If it hadn't been the Crusades, it would be Western Decadence in General.
Bottom line: They don't NEED an excuse to behead a human being. The Islamofacists do it because they are bloodthirsty, goat buggering sons of bitches who do it because they cannot have normal relationships with women.
Any rationale is simply a rationale, and that rationale will change with the day of the week and the direction of the wind. And by taking ANY of those rationales seriously and attempting to "understand" it, you simply lend legitimacy to terrorism. That is PRECISELY what the people who perform acts like beheading people on film or crashing planes into buildings WANT you to do.
The best way to combat terrorism is to ensure that ANYONE involved in it is sure to become a GREASE SPOT with no discussion of the legitimacy of their causes, no sympathy about why they did it, and no delay in that rendering of their corporeal being into an unrecognizable lump of decaying flesh.
You have my vote!
BTTT
I couldn't agree more...and thank you for your post; it sums up the thoughts that are floating around in my head.
Pretending to "understand" why terrorists do what they do ultimately gets turned around into: somehow...it's our fault. terrorists behead someone? our fault. they fly planes into buildings or strap bombs onto their body? our fault.
It's like my 15-yr-old daughter....somehow everything is MY fault. got up late? mom's fault. didn't finish homework? mom's fault.
as if.
BTTT.
When I was learning to play golf, after I would shank one into the woods, I would turn to my father and ask what I did wrong. He would always say, “Why do you want to know? Do you want to do it again?”
Sometimes the knowledge of what went wrong does not aid in the solution. One must concentrate on doing it right.
In the case of doing it right, that is not going to entail abandoning the Middle East and the World’s oil supply, it is not going to include regeging on our support of Israel, it is not going to include dismantling US power worldwide, and it is not going to include restoring Spain to the Caliphate. So why should we be concerned too much about what the Muslims want?
We live in the twenty-first century. The savages' choices are clear ................... FRegards