Only Ignorant People Support the Many Wars on Terrorism Essay

Abby Whitley 26 April 2017 Terrorism and justification In today’s society one of the main threats that politicians and the media focus on the most is the act of terrorism. Terrorism is defined as the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political gain. A person who is considered a terrorist carries out their strategy to remedy or draw attention to an issue that they disagree with. The people who carry out these acts genuinely believe that their actions are justified based on the role

within its own boundaries. America has been operating on hypocritical, double standard geopolitics since its founding as a superpower, and is constantly sticking its nose into foreign conflict and then is wholly shocked when it gets cut off, as if people like having their land raped by foreign supremacists and bombs dropped on their heads. And, all the while, as America is terrorizing them, Americans are appalled when they are met with resistance or retaliation from the other side. America, has been

more than one hundred thousands people of Japanese heritage living on the west coast of the United States. In the midst of World War II, F.D.R. instituted this order following popular opinion and poor advice from his cabinet. This dismal decision was made in the wake of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, as Anti-Japanese paranoia was increasing. This terrible event left a scar on the rather spotless-at least to the public eye- profile of the United States. There were many factors that led to this rather

September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, but certainly existed prior to that (Sheridan 2006). Islamophobia is nourished by a number of misconceptions which are related to but distinct from these attacks. The so-called ‘War on Terror’ is sometimes perceived as a war on Islam. Muslims are depicted in the media and by the United States’ government as ‘hating freedom’, though as we will see this idea does not make any sense. The present paper is a discussion of the sources of, and irrationalities

The battle with terrorism is one of the most controversial arguments, especially when it comes to torturing captured terrorists for information. Torture is a truly morbid and inhumane idea to most, but there are still many people that think otherwise. Some aren’t against the idea of it, and others would even endorse it publicly. “Nearly two thirds of Americans believe torture can be justified to extract information from suspected terrorists.” (Khan, www.reuters.com) This statistic is very similar

Since the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, “terrorism” has been a word that every American has used daily. It has been eleven years since these attacks, and our country is still at war, and we use terms like “acts of terror” to justify our invasion of their civilian space. Personally, I do not care much for conspiracy theories, but I was interested to know a little bit more about the Islamic culture that these “terrorists” stem from. While the majority of

Since 2011, more than 250,000 people have been killed in the Syrian civil war. Millions of other Syrians are searching for a secure home. America could provide a home to these Syrians if they were well prepared and funded. Taking in Syrian refugees would have no help to Syria, be dangerous for American citizens and be an extremely ignorant move, considering we are not prepared for almost 50,000 refugees. Syrian refugees should not be allowed into America. If Americans do take in refugees, this will

you or your cause good. Jonah Goldberg struggles to employ pathos, however, he employs ethos, logos, and kairos to successfully highlight why Antifa is no better than their alt-right enemies to persuade American adults along with those who blindly support Antifa, in his article “The Alt-Right is Bad – And So Is ‘Antifa.’” Goldberg’s article states “since when is being less bad than the Klan a major moral accomplishment?” (Goldberg). The KKK, one of the most horrific groups America has ever seen,

Terrorism is not a derogatory moral classification; rather, it is a mode of warfare. Terrorism is a tactic, yet it is a term used derogatorily to describe a certain group of people because of events in the recent past. Because of a sweeping generalizations about those that commit act of terrorism, terrorism has been turned into a “dirty” word to describe people, instead of the act that the word actually defines. Why do people decide to use terrorism as a derogatory moral classification? What causes

airport in Cairo captures a man attempting to smuggle priceless Egyptian artifacts, including two mummies of a cat and an ibis. (BBC News 2008) In 1999, authorities in Thailand found over 700 artifacts, many of them almost a thousand years old, hidden in a sculptor’s house in a town called Ayutthaya. Many of them are related to Buddhist practices and structures, and are thought to have been stolen from important sites. (Akanond 1999) Even more recently in 2015, due to the instability of countries in the