Gee: Stop making excuses for terrorism

Globe and Mail ^ | September 15, 2001 | Marcus Gee

[nofriendofbills]

I have been reading all kinds of crap, emails and such from people who are already getting cold feet! Amazing, simply amazing. I am going to keep this article and send it as a reply to every moron who sends me defeatist garbage.

Great article Clive thanks for posting it.

[BritBulldog]

Couldn't agree more.

The root causes of the fatwa on Salman Rushdie was the publication of his book Satanic Verses.

Should we have removed the root causes of the situation there and banned the book?

[sinkspur]

Yet the "root causes" notion lives on.

It lives on on Free Republic, in the maniacal rantings of Demi(dog) Bin Laden and his cell of sycophants.

Thankfully, most here aren't in league with those who, basically, hate this country because it doesn't conform to their political ideology.

They are terrorists themselves.

[Cultural Jihad]

Thankfully, most here aren't in league with those who, basically, hate this country because it doesn't conform to their political ideology.

They are first and foremost anarchic ideologues, and only lastly Americans.

[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

I don't see the bombers as candidates for therapy on the big "Root Cause" couch. I see them as soldiers fighting a war with the means they find at hand. They used airplanes as missiles because they don't have the infrastructure--especially the ability to tax people--to garner huge stockpiles of high-tech weaponry.

Is anybody looking for the "root causes" of the behavior of the people who have been bomboing Iraq for the past 11 years? Of course not.

When we bomb whoever we're going to bomb in the coming war, will anyone be wondering what is bothering us? No. We think about what we want all the time. We talk about it all the time. That way we don't have to think about, or talk about, what anybody else in the world is thinking or talking about.

But that isn't going to stop them from acting upon their thoughts--just as we do.

[Praxeologue]

Note that the Toronto Globe & Mail publishes this garbage for two days in a row. It then produces the above as "balance". Rational Canadians gave up on the Globe long ago. It has been taken over by leftists. The owner, Ken Thomson, is worth $10 billion in electronic media. He doesn't believe this nonsense, but goes alone with it to curry favour with Canada's media elite. He is a disgrace.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Worse, they acquit them of responsibility for their own actions.

Where have we seen this tactic before? Could it be from Hillary and the other liberals in this country? Isn't it just a prop for the assencion to power, an us against them ploy, with the conservative Republicans being "them". Tyrants all use the same tactics no matter their stripe. We need to recognize them here and abroad.

[Senator Pardek]

Don't pick on Demidog - he's being consistent. There are many here, however (you know of whom I'm speaking) who have now been exposed like so many cheap strippers as anti-American Moral Relativists.

[TCanna]

great article. I've been seeing the apologists out in force... Thanks for posting this.

[lodwick]

Thank you very much for this article! JL

[garbanzo]

But that isn't going to stop them from acting upon their thoughts--just as we do.

It will if they're dead or conquered.

[gjenkins]

Stamp out the terrorist and the root cause.

[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

"...It will if they're dead or conquered..."

True. But I'm still waiting for the "peace dividend" in the wake of our conquest of The Evil Empire. The Evil Empire that was, that is. Not the current Evil that we are going to rid the world of, of course.

[sinkspur]

But that isn't going to stop them from acting upon their thoughts--just as we do.

Not if they're dead.

There aren't many human beings who place as little value on their own lives as these terrorists do. They are like a cancer.

If the only way to eradicate terrorism is to kill every terrorist, then we (the civilized world) will simply have to kill every terrorist.

[garbanzo]

You'll have to wait a bit then until our values have taken root everywhere on Earth.

[TheDon]

An important point some seem to have missed. Terrorists engage in their activities because they cannot accomplish them in a democratic fashion. The Palestinian Separatists, for example, want the elimination of the State of Israel, however many Palestinians have accepted Israel and are an integrated part of it. In Ireland, terrorists act in spite of a lack of public support for their aims.

[Logophile]

Terrorism is a deliberate form of political or ideological warfare waged by fanatics with a disposition for unlimited violence. In the case of extreme religious terrorists, whether Islamic or Christian or Sikh, they are engaged in a holy war, a struggle for the fate of the world that justifies any amount of bloodshed.

Good point. I would add that many of those with "a disposition for unlimited violence" simply love violence. Any grievance will serve to justify blooshed. They don't really need a reason, just the means and the opportunity.

[A Navy Vet]

"They are terrorists themselves."

You do our side in these America's-the-root-cause threads a disservice with that hyperbole. You are usually someone with a firm lock on commonsense and the bottom line. They may be unrealistic, protectionist/isolationist, utopian, 1700's stuck, insensitive, un-patriotic appearing, armchair ideologs...but terrorists is little over the top.

[jedi]

You do our side in these America's-the-root-cause threads a disservice with that hyperbole.

Stinkspur has always embraced whatever would extend state control and reduce liberty. He's the stereotype of those who hope to be relieved of the terrible burdens of freedom.

As Hitler said.