The Pros And Cons Of Terrorism

Terrorism, has as of yesterday, just stuck New York with a bombing and Minnesota with a stabbing spree that injured more than 30 people combined. ISIS is claiming responsibility for both of these attacks although it is unclear at this time whether or not they were telling the truth. It does not matter to ISIS if they committed the attack or not as long as they get credit for it. They need to stay active to keep up their fear to influence their soldiers and future recruits so they can look powerful. This means that for America and its citizens they are under constant threat of random attack. Applying symbolic interactionism, it is clear that terrorism is a learned behavior. Groups of terrorists are coming together to spread their label and promote

Nowadays, facing a globalized world, terrorism is a proposition which is very worth to discuss. Whenever it comes to terrorism, whether it is the state or people, there are different opinions about it, especially in morality. The debate about the morality of terrorism has become a hot topic today, and a common question is caused whether terrorism is justified or whether it is always wrong. One the one hand, some thinkers believe that sometimes terrorism is moral and justified such as utilitarian thinkers, political realists. The political realist supports terrorism is justified if people take effective violence to protect the interests of the state. At the same time, utilitarian thinkers also believe that sometimes this behaviour that citizens take terrorist attacks against foreign governments is moral because they want to get fair treatment in this way. On the other hand, other thinkers claim that terrorism is always wrong, and they oppose any form of violence. The absolute pacifist is one of the representatives. The absolute pacifist holds people should adopt a more peaceful approach to dealing with problems rather than using violence. These two debates inspire more philosophers to study war and terrorism. For example, through the analysis of the morality of war, a philosopher Saint Thomas Aquinas concluded that “although war is not a good thing, it is morally justified under certain conditions” (Velasquez, 2017, p. 640). And Aquinas also came up with a just war theory to

In today’s society domestic terrorism is one of the biggest threats to the United States. Some of these recent terrorist attacks include. Domestic Terrorism is when U.S. citizens carry out terrorist acts against other U.S. residents or groups.Many people think that the biggest threat of terrorism to the U.S. is from a foreign country, when in fact, the bigger threat is closer to home. Domestic terrorism is becoming a bigger threat to the U.S. than international terrorism and we need to find a way to prevent these attacks.

Terrorism has been conducted throughout the world on numerous occasions. The groups that perform these actions come from multiple countries from all over the world. The United States even has some forms of terrorist groups and individuals. One of the biggest terrorist attacks was the destruction of the Twin Towers carried out by Al-Qaeda. Also recently there has been attacks in Paris and Great Britain, which were ISIS’s plan. The biggest terrorist organizations include the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and quite recently ISIS. The Taliban was founded in 1994, by Mullah Mohammed Omar, and they kill people in the name of jihad. Al-Qaeda was founded by Osama Bin Laden and also kill for jihad. Finally ISIS was founded recently hand continues to grow rapidly. They kill indiscriminately and how they see fit (Ppcorn, n.d.).

Fighting fire with fire, or in this case, fighting terrorism with terrorism. This, simply put, is what many believe to be the solution to terrorism - a War on Terror. NATO is well-known for being one of the largest and strongest organizations or military alliances in which participating states agree to mutual defense in any event of an external attack. Since the attack of 9/11, NATO, with the lead of the U.S., has been determined to eradicate each and every single terrorist group or any form of terrorism. Over the years, these motivations have sparked countless controversial issues as ethics of this war became increasingly questionable. Although many may support this concept of a "War on Terror", it is simply, without question, economically damaging, misleading, and a hopeless attempt to solve the issue of terrorism.

Terrorism which usually rarely ever used to happen has recently happened to spike in targets for terror over the past few decades.From the more recent attacks in Berlin to the various assassination attempts on US presidents.It can already be seen as something that cannot be taken very lightly.As a result many terror attacks keep on increasing over the decades. In the past the major figures for terrorism were Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. Even though Bin Laden died terrorism still continues and it can even be said some terrorists could see Bin Laden as martyr for his horrendous terrorist attacks upon the US.

"Terrorism has more frequently been associated with violence committed by disenfranchised groups desperately attempting to gain a shred of power or influence" (Juergensmeyer 4), but more often terrorism has been for religion. Terrorism is done to get across someone religious views to others. We are seeing more acts of terrorism on the news today. ISIS being one of the biggest terrorist groups and has attacked on multiple occasions. More then ever, people are on edge to terrorist activity. Although we have come up with new ideas and ways to prevent terrorist attacks terrorism is still growing. After 9/11, the United States changed its policy on the process to board a plan. We try different ways to stop and prevent terrorist attacks but we still find new ways terrorists are attacking us. Terrorist attacks are never acts by on person rather its an act from multiple people. Juergensymeyer talks about different attacks and different ways those attacks where handled.

Have you ever wondered why there are so many terrorist attacks in the United States? Why did the United States spends so much money on the military? This all happens due to a reason that the United States keep interfering into others countries’ problems, but most of the time nothing come out of it. Sometimes, the United States even make the problem become even worse. Just like the war in Iraq. The decisions made by the Presidents cause the problem getting worse day by day. Helping people out is a good thing, however, we should think about if that person need help or not. Which out the intervene of the United States, Iraq will not be in a situation like today. The United States will be less in debt and more money to fund other programs. There are more negative effects than positive effects when the United States meddles into others countries’ problems, so the United States should just ignore and stop worrying about those countries.

In fact, it appears as if every few months there is a new tragedy that has taken place in the name of terror. For example, in the past year alone major attacks have taken place in Paris, Belgium, Germany, Iraq, Afghanistan, and so on and so forth. However, according to an article written by Margot Sanger-Katz titled, “Is Terrorism Getting Worse? In the West, Yes. In the World, No,” published on the New York Times website, statistically speaking, terrorism is not on the rise overall. According to the article, the number of deaths in Western countries that are a result of terrorism have seen an increase, as seen by the fact that, “the number of people who died in terror attacks in North American and Western Europe rose markedly in 2015, claiming more than 200 lives” (Sanger-Katz). Furthermore, interestingly enough, there were far more fatalities in western countries as a result of terrorism between the 1970s and 1980s, averaging between 400-600 deaths per year (Sanger-Katz). However, overall, terrorism itself isn’t as common in western countries as it is in other areas of the world. In fact, “More than three-quarters of all terrorism fatalities over the last five years took place in six countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Syria and Yemen” (Sanger-Katz), according to the Global Terrorism Database. However, between 2014 and

In America we have a lot of domestic terrorism. Domestic terrorism didn’t become a problem until the 9/11 terror attacks on September 11 2001 in New York City when planes were hijacked hit the buildings and killed over 3,000 people. Since then there have been over 10 major terror attacks in the United States. Five of which have been been the most effective to the United States the five are Pulse nightclub shooting, the two church shootings, Las Vegas massacre, San Bernardino California shooting. Domestic terrorism started in New York when a bomb exploded on Wall Street in the financial district in the 1950s and 1960s. The pros to domestic terrorism is that it makes our country stronger and knows what to

The history of Terrorism in the United States is extensive, with present day being focused mainly on Islamic Terrorist groups and extremists. There have been 2,608 total attacks and 226 fatal attacks in the United States between 1970 and 2011. There have been attacks from within the United States from our own people and attacks that originated from abroad. Religion, political agendas, instilling fear and protesting policy have all been motives of terrorists throughout history. Terrorists will use any means necessary to promote their cause and to receive worldwide recognition and media attention from their acts. Terrorism can also be used, especially in regards to religion, to enforce a system of belief, opinion or viewpoint. The

Terrorism is a big threat people in the world face today. Terrorism is defined by Cindy Combs as “a synthesis of war and theater, a dramatization of the most proscribed kind of violence - that which is perpetuated on innocent victims - played before an audience in the hope of creating a mood of fear; for political purposes.” In other words an act of terrorism is not for mass casualties but rather for attention. Terrorist seek an audience. They would rather kill one person and have the whole world see it than kill a whole city and no one knew about it. Through attention they believe they can create a fear in us the people. If the people are scared the government

Once 9/11 took place in our history, we have to think about what is terrorism. Indeed, there is no definition for the terrorism because it’s a global problem, and we see all sorts of things happened in the media. It’s a fluid become in our world. Generally, the terrorist targets are noncombatant or civilian. Instead, they want the power; they want to have the emperor power and to show the weakness of our government. In that regard, the wake of 9/11 attacks on our nation, homeland

Have you ever had a fear for your family, your town, your country, or your world. How about the fear to have everything taken from you, destroyed, and not caring if it has hurt you or not? What about your fear and pain is, and can be someone else’s happiness? The fear of you being terrorized? That is terrorism. Someone else bringing fear and terrorizing you. That is a terrorist’s goal. Terrorism is common and is very difficult to stop. The government promises protection for the people, and their home, but they can not give that protection if they can not stop terrorism. Terrorism needs to stop to protect the live of the people, and their country.

Terrorism, which has been around for as long as people can remember, has been on the rise for the past ten years. Terrorists usually use murdering, kidnapping, hi-jacking and bombings to achieve their political purpose. For instance, according to Wikipedia.com (2006), in 1985 816 deaths, then in 2003, more than 1,000 people died by terorist acts around the world. In recent years, terrorism seems to be at a new height and attacks are much more violent than in the past. Unfortunately, in spite of many anti-terror campaigns, projects and organizations are being created for prevention (to prevent) terrorism, the number of terrorists only is increasing. These days terrorism is all over the world.