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When will we not worry about terrorism?

                                                            

I never imagined in my youth that the biggest threat to peace in this world would be terrorism. The thing about terrorists is that they don't necessarily look any different than anyone else(so they're hard to detect), they don't necessarily all stay together in one location(so they're hard to eliminate or isolate) and they never seem to have a justifiable reason for their violent actions. But they do seem to have an ongoing and endless group of individuals who are willing to join them and partake in their activities. That is why I believe that we may never be able to "not worry" about where and when a terrorist action will take place. Even if you are able to kill a group of terrorists, you can't get them all. It's like trying to kill every ant in an ant mound. Some will survive and regroup to terrorize another day. Whenever I visit New York City, it's always in the back of my mind that Manhattan is an excellent spot to detonate a nuclear bomb in order to kill off the most people in a small area. As I'm walking the city streets with my wife, I'm thinking "with our luck, this will be the day that a terrorist group sets off a bomb of that magnitude". I strongly believe that with all the nuclear bombs that currently exist is this world, one will eventually be acquired by terrorists who will try to use it. There is certainly a possibility that it will never happen but (for some undetermined reason) the terrorists want to inflict as much pain and suffering as they possibly can and have no feelings (other than accomplishment) for what they have done and obviously, they would like to top the actions commited on Sept. 11, 2001. I fear these despicable human beings will continue to be among us for many more generations so even if we all have to tolerate extensive security measures everywhere, we just have to accept that this is the way of life for now on and pray that no evil plans of terrorists are ever successful.

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Honestly terrorism is a cruddy tactic for warfare... you lose more manpower than an average attack, and you attack things that have little importance to the war machine.

I stopped worrying about it when I thought about how weak the entire thing is, a successful terroristic attack is more show than immobilization. It kills less than what a coordinated fire attack on major crop lands in a nation would do through famine caused by it, and you put your men out like that just begging to be eliminated in a bomb-vest (you can destroy how many crops with a lighter compared to people killed with a vest?). It does get people scared though, but in my experience this just unites them.

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cromat(42) Disputed
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I think terrorism is much more basic than all that. It's simply one group's blind hatred towards another because of their own manufactured reasons and (due to having too much free time on their hands) they are willing to commit anything that will disrupt or destroy the lives of the ones they are against with little or no remorse.

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Whether they do or they don't they've certainly achieved their target of getting people to fear them. You're living proof of the success of terrorism.

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Worrying about terrorism is like any other kind of worry, not constructive. In the case of America, it was very destructive--it gave Bush another term, because he used the fear tactic and promised to fight terrorism. The war in Iraq has killed an estimated 100,000 civilians. Where do you draw the line of what is considered terrorism?

When it is no longer politically incorrect to just shot them ;)

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When we stop worrying about terrorism is when we don't live in the United States...