Terrorism
The “War of Terror” is the doctor treating the symptoms and neglecting the disease. The disease is one of extreme poverty, alienation, distress, and hopelessness; the symptom is then terrorism.
To treat terror we must eliminate the terrorist’s followers, the extremely poor. To give those people something to live for will reduce the chances that they will give their lives up for terrorism.
Alienation and Distress are theorized to arise from the rapid globalization that is taking place today. Southeast Asia, the Indian sub content, central Asia, and the Middle East are all becoming developed regions. These are the breeding grounds for terrorists. These are the areas that provide the means for terror.
To help with the alienation and distress we must be respectful to other cultures and allow them expression. Show the developing nations that they can retain their cultural identity and still develop economically, culturally, and politically. This comes down to two things, the US population needs to take interest in other cultures and consume their cultural goods. The second thing is a public relations campaign to show the developing nation that its culture is valuable, and should be retained. These steps are valuable to the world as it will preserve diversity; if we don’t try to preserve diversity western culture will become so pervasive and prevalent that we won’t be able to leave home, as home will be everywhere (I don’t know about you but when I retire I want to travel the world and experience its diversity.)
Alienation could be reduced by creating a public forum where the US government and perhaps the world governments would listen to distress, and more importantly act to relieve that distress. Give potential terrorists a place to vent their anguish in a nonviolent manner. Give them a voice, and listen to that voice. The counter to being nice is to have absolutely no remorse, hold no bar, and have no limit to dealing with people if they turn to terrorism (this means keeping the policy of not negotiating with terrorists.) This would hopefully convince the alienated and dissenting people to use the peaceful way to be heard.
The last step to reducing terrorism (as an example, Islamic terrorism) is another PR campaign, one that counters the rhetoric of violent Islamic leaders, this must be done tactfully. The campaign would have to use legitimate Muslim voices, be grounded within legitimate Islam, and simply be funded with oversight by the western world but let the Islamic world produce the campaign.
Managing dissent and hopelessness will strengthen people to resist the rhetoric that violent leaders spew. To proclaim the goodness of Islam will show those still vulnerable that violence is not rewarded. Finally giving the alienated a voice that is listened to should persuade the leaders to nonviolence.
To treat terror we must eliminate the terrorist’s followers, the extremely poor. To give those people something to live for will reduce the chances that they will give their lives up for terrorism.
Alienation and Distress are theorized to arise from the rapid globalization that is taking place today. Southeast Asia, the Indian sub content, central Asia, and the Middle East are all becoming developed regions. These are the breeding grounds for terrorists. These are the areas that provide the means for terror.
To help with the alienation and distress we must be respectful to other cultures and allow them expression. Show the developing nations that they can retain their cultural identity and still develop economically, culturally, and politically. This comes down to two things, the US population needs to take interest in other cultures and consume their cultural goods. The second thing is a public relations campaign to show the developing nation that its culture is valuable, and should be retained. These steps are valuable to the world as it will preserve diversity; if we don’t try to preserve diversity western culture will become so pervasive and prevalent that we won’t be able to leave home, as home will be everywhere (I don’t know about you but when I retire I want to travel the world and experience its diversity.)
Alienation could be reduced by creating a public forum where the US government and perhaps the world governments would listen to distress, and more importantly act to relieve that distress. Give potential terrorists a place to vent their anguish in a nonviolent manner. Give them a voice, and listen to that voice. The counter to being nice is to have absolutely no remorse, hold no bar, and have no limit to dealing with people if they turn to terrorism (this means keeping the policy of not negotiating with terrorists.) This would hopefully convince the alienated and dissenting people to use the peaceful way to be heard.
The last step to reducing terrorism (as an example, Islamic terrorism) is another PR campaign, one that counters the rhetoric of violent Islamic leaders, this must be done tactfully. The campaign would have to use legitimate Muslim voices, be grounded within legitimate Islam, and simply be funded with oversight by the western world but let the Islamic world produce the campaign.
Managing dissent and hopelessness will strengthen people to resist the rhetoric that violent leaders spew. To proclaim the goodness of Islam will show those still vulnerable that violence is not rewarded. Finally giving the alienated a voice that is listened to should persuade the leaders to nonviolence.
posted by MMM at 4:27 PM
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