Harish Palaniappan's: Terrorism :: Peace – Has it become coexistence.

Current situation
Terrorism has almost become part of life, positioned to coexist with peace at least for sometime to come. Thanks to the iron hand of the Bush Administration in solving issues related to terrorism, without considering negative impacts of warring with extremists.

Bush definitely has positioned himself as a strong person with the war on terrorism…
At whose cost… is the question unanswered.

Terrorists who get killed in a war don’t go without leaving something.. They make their death look philosophical to future terrorists, their ideals seem correct as long as debated and exposed.

All terrorists have to be handled by the law. Law should expose them, exploit their misdoings, in full, in public, and award punishment.

You can’t kill an extremist who planted bombs to kill innocents without exposing his wrong intentions and wrong perception. That’s like killing truth and later trying to tell the truth from a narrator’s perspective.
…Narration doesn’t have the effect.

It doesn’t take much time for a third party to claim that the killed terrorist was fighting only to save himself, and militia is taking revenge on innocents… and the holy war ‘Jihad’ continues with the youth taking up these arguments as real and going against militia.

‘Jihad’ - the holy war, as extremists call it, they say is to safeguard their interests in the world. As long as the law is allowed to try at least 50% of the terrorists, and prove them guilty in front of the public, Jihad is going to be fuelled by interested extremists.

Reactions to America’s and UK’s war on terrorism in Iraq, Afghanistan have become everyday headlines.

Bombings in the London underground, bombings in Egypt, … everyone is afraid the list is long.

A recent estimate put the count at 83,000 as the number of people killed in Iraq in the last 3 years. This is not much less than the number of people that the Atom bomb at Hiroshima & Nagasaki, killed.

Historically, Americans always think defense to the extreme levels because they are powerful, they have the money, they have the weapons, and most importantly they are self contained, so closed within their nutshell.

Americans or the British don’t need help from any other country to exist is the foundation thought for all other thoughts and decisions made by them.

The value of a society and the existence of other countries in the world, and that they are answerable to these different people outside their countries, comes as second thought in minds of such people.

The American president Bush, and the British prime minister Tony Blair are representing their countries wrongly.. its effecting them. I am surprised they still don’t understand, after so much debate on the war on Terrorism the world over.

September 11 2001, what happened at World trade center and Pentagon, was nothing less than a massacre. But then, … what happened in Afghanistan and Iraq is also not.

Its common sense, that you shouldn’t smoke in a petrol bunk, you shouldn’t fire a shot in an ammunition store. Iraq and Afghanistan were full of ammunition. I don’t understand what was up the mind of the strategists in America and Britain when they decided to load all guns and fire. If the real intention was to stop / contain terrorism, Iraq and Afghanistan should have been slowly dismantled, extremists separated, innocents moved to refugee centers and the countries secured by invasion. Firing helter-skelter in the name of war, killing extremist leaders by destroying their bunkers with huge bombs, also destroying the surroundings is not something that even remotely looks like action to stop / contain terrorism. Does it.

Summary of 'War on Terrorism'

The future
The future doesn’t seem anything better than coexistence of peace and terrorism. As stated earlier, Bombings in the London underground, bombings in Egypt, …its all a reaction. A reaction of revenge on the American+British war against Islam. That’s how it will be seen. Terrorists also claim that they are determined to destroy peace once in countries that supported this war.

The first best way to contain terrorism as it exists now is to pronounce guilty the American president Bush, and his counterpart Tony Blair, for neglecting a societal impact of war. And make them step down from their positions of representing their people.

Secondly, one should think about calming down sentiments of affected religions, tackle issues like Iraq with hands of public protected by militia. Let people from various countries join hands, plan rehabilitation, in terrorism struck nations, and help the people of Iraq and Afghanistan build themselves. Let the American government and the British government support and enable these rehabilitation plans. Let the militia only be a protective hand and not assume power to implement things. Guns can’t hold roses better, that’s not what guns are made for.

Harish Palaniappan's

Terrorism :: Peace – Has it become coexistence.

written on: July 31, 2005