Posted by
brontosaurus on Friday, December 01, 2006 4:35:45 AM
Has anyone thought about this or pontificated on it? Of all the talk radio, blogs, etc. that I've listened to and read, I've never heard anyone bring up this single point.
Terrorism is kind of our fault. When I say "our" I mean America. No, it's not our fault because we created the conditions of poverty that cause people to want to rebel - that idea exists only in a liberal's mind.
Terrorism could never have existed at any other time in history except after the 1960s.
The 1960s is the time when the strongest, richest, most powerful nations in the world decided to have a revolution led by young people that created the liberal nonsense we are drowning in today.
Prior to that time terrorism was a non-issue for 2 reasons:
1. Anything as barbaric as targeting innocent women and children would be swiftly met by an atom bomb, or before the atom bomb, a carpet bomb raid, or before bombs, a complete domination and possible wiping out of the culture that attempted such attrocities.
2. Prior to the 1960s, no nation, even the civilized U.S. and Europe had the slightest hesitation to include every part of a country (even civilian areas) as legitimate military targets.
In short, back then, we would never tolerate any people that only targetted innocents. Not only would we wipe out ALL their men - but we'd have no hesitation to wipe out the women and children who were part of such a culture. Sound harsh. It was, and its the reason terrorism was never a possible tactic prior to 1960.
Nowadays, not only are we so careful about "only" getting the bad guys, meaning the people who pulled the trigger, that we pretend not to see their 10,000 friends who are harboring them, helping them escape, or babysitting their kids while they make more bombs.
What did we do to Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Or even Berlin for that matter? We flattened them, irrespective of women, children, dogs, cats, or salamanders. But how many more lives did it save in the long run? Thousands more were saved than the lives that were taken. Would we do it again today? The scary answer is almost definitely NO because the left, and the media would fight us until we gave in and gave up.
Even conservatives have lost the ruthlessness needed to combat an enemy that is completely bent on annihilating you.
Think of this - if every time a terrorist struck and killed 10 of our civilians, or 10 of Israel's civilians, we found the town he came from and killed 10,000 of its inhabitants... would there be any more terrorists?
No! Not because the terrorists even care about the innocent lives in their own villages - but because the second the next guy started putting together a make-shift bomb in his garage, 15 of his neighbors would drag him out in the street and say, "What are you crazy? You're going to get us all killed!" and then beat the living tar out of him. Problem solved. We'd never even know the name of the would-be terrorist, and that town would live on for another day and maybe even find a more economically profitable thing to do than fight Western nations.