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Originally Posted by StuartD
People forget the past way to easily and way to quickly.
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Think we prob have been down this avenue before which other areas designated "terrorist". It happens all the time on varying scales - ie the IRA activity in the UK et al... Stuff people under pressure or oppression and they will react and prob result can be what is simplfied into a category known as "terrorism". People don't wake up on a Monday morning and decide to blow stuff up
On a global scale... often the oppression or aggression is over greed - the desire to possess land, oil or establish a sphere of influence to further abuse/rape natural resources. The old British Empire among others, was the same - now it's the new kid on the block who wants to be the predator and, sadly, has not got wiser thru history.
The US has over time fucked so many countries now - from Latin/South America, Asia and now the Middle East. The Latin America area has seen "quiet wars" with some very shitty conduct (killings, torture, assassination of democratically elected leaders, drugs trading - while kids in the US got locked up for trading drugs).
The "modern way" is now attempting to establish trading treaties (kinda like the Mafia having accountants and establishing banks from laundered money) - but there is a caution in dealing with predators in a fair number of countries who experienced the worse side of the "values" of the US. Their familes were wiped out by killers and torturers trained by the US - It will take many decades to get that trust back. It's surprising there were never more attacks on the US long before 9/11.
PS Suppose further evidence of a predator is in the size/security of their embassies - do a quick survey of US embassies in other nations and these will be bunkers with max security - while in other embassies, ya can have a drink with the Ambassador at the poolside - without guards.