Terrorists need to be eliminated. Plain and simple. Do we have the money to do it? I believe we do.
It's not a matter of money.
Terrorists will never be eliminated until the causes of terrorism are eliminated. And that's not a matter of money. It's a matter of no person on the globe feeling that they have a serious grievances against a nation or government or people which they have no realistic way to address other than through terrorism.
After all, without terrorism we wouldn't be a nation. The Minutemen were the terrorists of their day. They had grievances against the English crown which they felt they couldn't address other than through terrorism, so they turned to terrorism. The Boston tea party was a terrorist act., as was the secretion of arms in caches around the country side and many other acts of the traitors (yes, to the British they were traitors) who turned to terrorism.
You may call that "good" terrorism, and I might not disagree with you. But let's be honest about what it was.
There are lots of terrorists in the world today. In the Arab world, of course. But also Kurds. Basques. Cechans. And many others we've heard nothing about. Not all threaten us, but all perpetuate the concept of terrorism as a way to address grievances.
The point being that even if we eliminate today's known terrorists, if there remain legitimate greivances which people believe cannot be fairly addressed through non-violent means, they will turn to terrorism. So eliminating today's terrorists won't end terrorism. Only creating a world of justice for all will do that.
Do we have the will to do that? The evidence isn't very favorable.
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Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing. G.K. Chesterton
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Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing. G.K. Chesterton
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