Originally posted by: Obi Jeewhyen
There is no war on crime. We fight crime perpetually. It's an ongoing struggle of society. And appropriate resources should be dedicated to it on an ongoing and perpetual basis.
Agreed.
Not to excuse their crimes by any means, but please. The bloods and the crips do not want every Westerner to convert to Islam or die. There's a rather pronounced difference there, dude.
Risk assessment would be prudent to apply to international terrorism.
There is no war on crime. We fight crime perpetually. It's an ongoing struggle of society. And appropriate resources should be dedicated to it on an ongoing and perpetual basis.
Agreed.
Terrorism is, in fact, no different. It doesn't require a war. To declare "war" on terrorism is to admit a permanent and perpetual state of war. A state wherein abdication of human rights and constitutional rights can be falsely justified and facistically implemented. Not to mention all other the other horrors and economic siphoning that would be a permanent state of being with a permanent state of war.
Here's where you're wrong. Terrorism is a crime when it is perpetuated by citizens of a country against that country or against a friendly country. Terrorism is an act of War when the terrorists operate from hostile countries where they are encouraged and harbored by the countries.
Al Quaida and other networks are not ad hoc organizations--they are global networks backed by the governmetns of some of the coutnries. What about the the Taliban? Do. You. Remember. Them?
Where is the "war" on the mafia? Where is the "war" on the bloods and crips? Far more Americans lie dead or wounded via the acts of these criminal organizations than from those of international terrorists (though I'll grant that terrorism adversely affects our economy to a greater degree with far fewer and less lethal acts of violence).
Here's where you're wrong. Terrorism is a crime when it is perpetuated by citizens of a country against that country or against a friendly country. Terrorism is an act of War when the terrorists operate from hostile countries where they are encouraged and harbored by the countries.
If we treat terrorism as the crime that it is, we can fight it just as we would any other heinous crime, and battle organizations that commit terrorism the same as we would any other criminal organization.
No thank you. That's what Clinton did for years, and it DOES NOT WORK. If we had treated the 1993 WTC attack as an act of war instead of a law-enforcement issue, then the towers might still be standing.
The danger to our society from terrorism has been insignificant compared to others we are not throwing treasure at. A war is not an appropriate economic or moral response to acts of terrorism commited by ad hoc organizations.
No thank you. That's what Clinton did for years, and it DOES NOT WORK. If we had treated the 1993 WTC attack as an act of war instead of a law-enforcement issue, then the towers might still be standing.
The danger to our society from terrorism has been insignificant compared to others we are not throwing treasure at. A war is not an appropriate economic or moral response to acts of terrorism commited by ad hoc organizations.
Al Quaida and other networks are not ad hoc organizations--they are global networks backed by the governmetns of some of the coutnries. What about the the Taliban? Do. You. Remember. Them?
Where is the "war" on the mafia? Where is the "war" on the bloods and crips? Far more Americans lie dead or wounded via the acts of these criminal organizations than from those of international terrorists (though I'll grant that terrorism adversely affects our economy to a greater degree with far fewer and less lethal acts of violence).
Not to excuse their crimes by any means, but please. The bloods and the crips do not want every Westerner to convert to Islam or die. There's a rather pronounced difference there, dude.
Risk assessment would be prudent to apply to international terrorism.
If you don't see how serious the threat is, then you aren't paying attention, or you're willfully blind. The president of Iran wants to bring about the bloody Apocalypse; if that isn't a threat we need to assess, I don't know what is.