Mainstream View of Terrorists
I've recently read an article in local newspaper referring to the latest Terrorist attacks in Madrid, Spain. The media coverage of this event will be widespread for the rest of the week, but after people have heard it enough times, they will lose interest. And since it didn't happen in America, I doubt it will be heard of for much more then a week.
This brings me to people's views on not only how and why terrorists are driven to such great lengths distorted, but also why their opinions are tainted and bias. More and more constituents around the world are buying into the War on Terrorism. Terrorism today is as evil as Communism was during the Cold War, the mentality has just shifted attentions. The following are quotes unequivocally taken from the article.
· "The people who committed this outrage did not need to die for their twisted cause. In fact, they probably went home, watched TV, and they could just as easily do it again tomorrow."
This I have a major problem with. Who are we to call someone's cause 'twisted'? Since when are we able to deal out a judgment that deems someone that's willing to die for a cause twisted? Maybe it's because of the simple fact that innocent people may have died? Maybe, but I doubt it. Mainstream society has judged terrorism as 'purposeless killing', and the people that are called terrorists are simply murderers. Just as communism was the opponent to the "American Dream" during the Cold War, terrorism now poses the threat. Now I'm not saying that this means nothing or was not terrible in the fact the people have died, but where are the bleeding hearts for the children in the middle east that were killed during the carpet bombing of Afghanistan and other countries?
Also, it was quite evident that people protested the war in Iraq, but not as much attention was given to Afghanistan. True, there were protests and demonstrations, but nothing to the scale of the Iraq protests. This was because for once people could not ignore the fact that isolationism can't protect them. They could no longer be numb to the death around the world because the death had finally came to America. But why didn't people protest the war in Afghanistan? Because someone had to pay for the fact that 2,700 people died, and constituents ignored the...