ECONOMIC TERRORISM, CIA and MILITARY TERRORISM CAUSES TERROR BLOW-BACK

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Homicidal terror is meant to intimidate - never mind euphemisms of 'legitimate targets'.

That paragon of democracy, England, made one out of every six people on earth a British colonial subject and held power over more than a billion people through the use of terror.

The CIA in covert violence has used terror to destabilize and overthrow governments of dozens of nations throughout the world.

And when a powerful nation attacks and invades smaller and weaker nations the message of terror is clear to all other weak nations.

Bringing war is to bring terror. In modern American warfare citizens have lost their civil rights. The death and wounds of nonmilitary men, women and children are an unfortunate result of what is cold bloodily termed "collateral damage."

During the Aug 31, 2008, 60 Minutes show "Bombing Civilians In Afghanistan," a head of operations in a computer screened control room directing air attacks in both Afghanistan and Iraq uses incoming coordinates to explain that his command center has clearance to sacrifice up to thirty civilians in a strike targeting insurgents, or a single insurgent leader. If more than thirty is under consideration, the President's or Vice President's go ahead is required!!

During an early debate among Democrats contending for their party's nomination for president, moderator Wolf Blitzer asked the candidates whether they would go ahead with a strike to take out bin Laden or some other terrorist leader if they knew civilian's lives would be lost? The candidates leading in the polls both shot their hands up as if not wanting to be last to raise his or her hand.

All these foreign life disregarding actions and attitudes are well known to everyone everywhere and not just by Americans who display them openly. These American terrorist intentions toward those who confront U.S. military adventures in Third World nations, as in "Shock and Awe", predate the present wars of occupation in Afghanistan, Iraq. By Ethiopian proxy, Somalia and ongoing air strikes in Pakistan should also be mentioned here.

Most amazing is that, throughout the First World, conglomerate owned mass media and elected officials, constrained to project corporate interests, have managed to orchestrate a majority of public opinion which "discounts" considering and investigating these abuses for which often quite ordinary citizens have made the supreme sacrifice in horrific suicide bombings, often in the name of their kinsmen and their nation's resolve to fight for justice and a brighter future for friends and family left behind.

Instead, the focus has been put on the leaders who have trained, assisted and sent these young men and women to become suicide bombers and wreak murderous vengeance as an answer to the violence perpetrated on them and their own countrymen. We should pay close attention to the fact that when leaders are killed, they are immediately replaced by others equally as fervent and dedicated to continue on.

"We are good!", announces the President of the United States, "they are evil".

Only occasionally, is a media spotlight momentarily shown on some often innocent looking young man or woman who has just given his or her life to effect horrendous bloodshed in dedication to dramatize unbearable injustice which the authority in power refuses to recognize. One kind of insanity brings about another often more virulent insanity.

The main emphasis in public discussion is on "defense." If current attitudes persist, then we should expect suicide bomb attacks to persist. Additional emphasis is put on military action to kill those behind the bombing campaign, or to retaliate against and punish the populations who harbor them, regardless of how counterproductive it may be in creating more recruits to avenge lost family.

In the main stream media, there is no considering the root of the problem, no hope of a peaceful resolution, no study of the perceived grievances dramatized in suicide attacks. Great protestations are heard of how 'democratic' the nations under attack are, how hopelessly poor in character their detractors, and that all this suicide bombing is done in jealousy by people unable to cope.

The plight of people in the Third World awakens little interest, yet everyone wants to know why suicide terrorism is happening. Blaming it on the radical Islam Wahabbi sect of Saudi Arabia, which the U.S. once supported, armed and funded, or blaming it on Persian speaking Afghanistan does not explain non-religious motivation in Palestine and suicide terrorism in confrontations with the non-Islamic poor.

The unconvincing argument that suicide bombers are not sincerely motivated and that the phenomenon has arisen because there is evil in the world, does not face reality or protect targeted citizens, nor does it deter the enlisting of more suicide bombers.

A relatively small number of individuals encouraged by politically aware extremist organizations have brought, and continue to bring fanatical responses to simple disinterest in the hapless economies of the huge Third World. It will remain a threat to the superpower's and its European Union NATO allies' global 'sphere of interest'. There is no difference between this "simple disinterest" in its dehumanizing effect and the similarly motivated suicide bombings.

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