People think that recognising a terrorists war aims and what they represent or what motivates them, means apologising for them.
I have fought the IRA for a long time and I wish to see them defeated but that does not mean I do not recognise where they sprung up from. It was the same in Africa, I met some real evil characters who needed to be removed from the theatre of operations, but I understood what created them
Fighting Terrorism is not just about killing terrorists its about removing the causes if you can, if its feasible.
Tony
And the cause is? Get real, we all know what the cause is. Arming nations like Saudi Arabia that terrorize their own people against developing ideas, religions, gods and arts of their own is the cause of international terrorism. You want to get rid of terrorism, then we need to nuke clean the middle East until it bows to inalienable civil rights demands within and without their territories. We are not talking about being the World Policeman, but being the world's great death... but the liberal utopia is against death and righteous battles of this scale.
So maybe in the end, the origin of terrorism is our lack of ability, as liberals, to communicate to others that terrorism is unacceptable. That's right, we are afraid to communicate because real communication requires sacrifice and blood shedding at times. We're a bunch of muted enuchs.