[ExI] Religions are not the ultimate cause of war

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Thu Sep 13 14:09:54 UTC 2012


On 13 September 2012 09:34, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

> Terrorism is not the result of a nation switching on to 'war-mode'.
>
> Terrorists are mostly a tiny minority (even including non-involved
> supporters). And as John said terrorists are often more middle-class
> than poor. Terrorism is probably used because it is the only method a
> relatively powerless small group have available to inflict damage on a
> hated powerful nation.
> (e.g. resistance fighters against WWII German invaders).
>
> Starvation and high food prices is linked with internal rioting and
> political upheaval.
> The US is facing bleak times with 46 million surviving on food stamps,
> but they are completely uninvolved in the US wars. Even a lot of the
> killing is now done by remote control, by soldiers playing a real-life
> computer game.
>
> It seems illogical to say that the richest country in the world is
> fighting wars because it faces 'hard-times'. They are certainly
> inflicting 'hard-times' on many other countries.
>

All that sounds pretty plausible, even obvious.

In principle, by the way, "terrorism" in the contemporary sense (that is,
not intended as a strategy deployed by ordinary armed forces) and as a
product of private initiatives is illegal everywhere, including (and we
could say especially) in the so-called "rogue states".

States like to keep control on the use of the force by their citizens, even
when the targets are abroad.

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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