Thread: Why Terrorism Exists

From Universal Mind
When the whole world has been liberated, there will be no more wars.

...Heh. Right. Just like how here, in America - a "free" society - there is no strife. There is no conflict. There is no murder, no rape, no kidnapping. There is no gang activity; no organized crime. Our freedoms have brought us a completely harmonious sense of unity, as a people. There is no sense of oppression. There is no rebellion against "authority." There is no religious arrogance. No aggression in the name of idealism. There is no ethnocentrism. There is no poverty-induced angst. There is no classism. No racism. No prejudice. There is no envy. No wrath. No militias. No extremists. No fundamentalists. There is no ignorance. No protectionism. No primitivism. No ignorance.

Right?

[/sarcasm]

Sorry, UM (but it was appropriate). Despite how many of the reasons for your point of view that I can actually, somewhat, take into consideration, the concept of a "liberated world meaning a world without conflict/war" is just a fairy-tale. Conflict is just as much a part of a free society as it is with any other division of the idealogical spectrum. Basically, what you're saying is that we, as a country, should spend the next hundred years invading every non-democratic nation on Earth, spreading "peace by way of the sword", with nothing but the assumption that such a genocidal campaign would bring about a global peace. Even if that is not your "verbatim" decree, it is the gist (my interpretation) of such a statement, and its proposed outcome (while ideal and attractive) is completely unrealistic.

Remember: Even right now, we are not at war with a government. We are at war with an ideology. We are at war with "peasants" that have access to weaponry (which anybody with goods or services of any sort of value, no matter their government affiliation or loyalty, has). This entire world could be one huge America, for all that it matters, but if the ideology exists (which you will much more quickly fuel, by fighting it with violence, than stamp out) the threat exists. "Freedom" in the governmental sense, does not simply make it disappear.