Achieving Security in America
First of all, I would like to say that I understand why the American people have become so paranoid after 9/11. They've never witnessed an attack on their own homeland in ages, so they react in shock and start viewing Middle Eastern people as a threat to their "freedoms".
However logical this may be, things start getting very bizarre when I overhear Americans discussing how Muslims hate America because they hate/envy American "freedoms". Next they start talking about how they should invade Iran, because Iran will supply terrorists with suitcase nukes to blow up Los Angeles.
The first proposition doesn't make any sense because "hating freedoms" is not an actual motive for hostility. For example, if you go to court and argue that your neighbor blew up your house because he hated your freedoms, you would look pretty damn stupid. The second proposition doesn't make sense because it came from an episode of "24", and it’s not a real threat. A more likely scenario would be that terrorists obtained snukes from the U.S. government, because they actually have such weapons.
This brings me to my next point. America view multiple foreign countries as threats, but as a foreigner, I actually view America as a bigger threat. If my government doesn't support American interests, they can stage a CIA backed coup to remove a democratically elected government, in favor of a tyrant who actually support American interests. If that doesn't work, they can simply invade my nation, and if that still doesn't work, they can threaten the use of nuclear weapons. In that regard, America is a threat to my sovereignty, security, and freedoms.
War in the Middle East will not stop terrorism, it will only provoke it. Bin Laden has stated that his motives for attacking the WTC were that America undermined the security of Muslim nations and supported Israel. Why then, do people still advocate war with Iran, when that would be dangerous to American security?
Secondly, as an American resident, I can safely say domestic terrorism is a bigger threat than foreign terrorism. To start, inner city crime in America is ridiculous. I feel more scared of gang violence and drive by shootings than I am of Muslim extremists. Crime is so bad that there were talks of deploying the National Guard to Chicago. A related problem is that the public education system fails in low class areas. It does nothing to help its students refine his/her intellect, and become more tolerant, knowledgeable, non-violent member of society, unless the student was already good to begin with.
If the government is so intent on keeping Americans secure, why don't they stop putting money into funding foreign occupation, which will only provoke foreign acts of terror, and instead put that money into combating inner city violence, which is a bigger threat in the first place?
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Originally Posted by Denny Crane!
about USA elections, but now I want this guy to win. Unless, of course, he changes when he gets to office, and keep his troops of chinese men in Texas.
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