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Originally posted by philip:
What do you all understand with 'anti-USA.' Am I the only one who thinks this is stupid cause you can't hate a country? I mean if you don't like the leaders you at least have a point. But I don't think there's much difference in the USA and Europe looking at rights and constitutes but that governments make the difference.
Also I don't think right now you can speak of the EU. It's still a bunch of loose countries which all do what they like best and what gives most profit.
Wouldn't this whole anti-terror stuff be better organised by actually making longterm agreements. Like now it's so easy to back out. Apart from IMO the bad decision in Spain to still vote immediately after the attacks and not postpone it, I don't like it that this sort of 'alliance' can be broken so easily. While I understand people don't want more attacks I feel terrorists got a huge win by Spain retreating out of the war.
While terrorists are getting more organised, countries involved in countering them are IMO still a loose bunch, they actually never have been a real unity. While the groups targeted in anti-terror campaigns have a common goal in trying to take down the west, countries fighting terror all have different goals and worse, some are even keeping in mind their own profit or so it seems. In fighting terror countries should take their responsibility in making a safer world, despite negative things that (could) happen.
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So basically you're saying
Counter-Terrorism = Good, Terrorism = Bad?
Sure, Nation-States
should get organised and provide co-ordinated counter-terrorism measures, but the problem lies in getting rid of National rivalries that simply refuse to go away. Tied in with that is the myriad of differing opinions on
how to tackle the international terrorism phenomenon, not to mention the incredibly diverse motivations of terrorist groups throughout the world. Devoting time and resources toward weakening one group may strengthen another. Some want money, some want religious uniformity, others simply wish to expel 'foreign' influence from 'their' land. Different nations have different terrorist enemies. Chechnyan terrorists are unlikely to target American interests, likewise Al Qaeda isn't likely to target Russians, nor is the IRA going to take a bite out of the Australian government anytime soon etc etc.
So, how do you organise a co-ordinated, international counter-terrorist effort? Keeping in mind that 'terrorism' is a blanket term applied to so many ideologically and logistically different militant groups that the generalisation is almost ludicrous...
[ 03-20-2004, 05:52 AM: Message edited by: The Hierophant ]