They denounce terrorism, while themselves being implicated in it:

Prior to the Iran/Hesbollah ‘incident’ there was a terror campaign in Iran involving street bombing that killed many including several Iran cabinet members, Iran initially pointed the finger at the British SAS, but later indicated they had evidence to show it was US special forces. The US later indicated that it had been running ‘preliminary operations’ in Iran, what a euphemism for what they denounce as unacceptable terrorism when someone else does it. – funnily enough this wasn’t explored to any depth by the western press (and I’m sure wasn’t even mentioned on Fox).

Sane goes with Iraq. Saddam Hussein got stubborn and lay down the gauntlet re: weapons inspections because the US had been pestering away with continual air strikes long before any UN resolutions had even been sought. If the US hadn’t been manipulating him like this the weapons inspections would have probably continued without incident and proven there were no WMD without the need to kill hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and American people.

I have trouble understanding why people don’t understand suicide bombers. When you have young men in these countries who have lost everything to the US: What have they got to lose?

I’m so glad I don’t live in the US right now, and I’m not that happy about being in the UK. I only hope people will come round to realising that a leader who gets themselves elected by playing on peoples fears is a bully and very dangerous to have at the helm.

by the way, previous Spanish government start with the USA the war in Iraq against the will of the population.

There are individuals that have broken the law. Some of them are now dead, some are at large (but it seems we’re not trying very hard to find them). This is a police issue, not an army issue, but it’s hard to give out billions of dollars of ‘pie’ on a police action, much easier when it’s the army. Hence the war on terror and the war on drugs and so on.

If 1/2 the money spent on the so called war on terror would be spent on helping the developing world the war on terror would be over and 1/2 the money would be saved. I don’t think that’s going to happen any time soon though.

Some people just like guns and money…

excellent blog, I was pointed here by ‘bob s.’

I expected just technology, but am happy to find these other thoughts as well.

best regards,

Jacques Mattheij

Martin, your policy with terrorism is to negotiate or let it be ….. and they get stronger anyway.
That is what happened since Israel left Lebanon in 2000 …. they got stronger, just waiting for the right moment to strike.
You acuse the USA and Israel for the grow of terrorism …????!!!?!!?!

The terrorism issue is pretty new in the world, and I think that there is no effective weapon against it yet.

I am pretty sure that USA and Israel´s antiterrorism policies push Muslim moderates in the hands of extremists and result in groups like Al Qaeda, Hamas and Hezbollah who when Bush got to power were much less powerful than today.

You seem to believe that if you are a neighbor of a terrorist and you die so be it, you were in the wrong neighborhood. I don´t. But the second issue that you don´t address is how poorly the USA and Israel are doing in the sense that terrorists organizations like Hamas, Hezbollah and Al Qaeda are more popular than ever among Muslims and are finding easier and easier to recruit members. Terrorism is based on probability of causing harm, more operatives means higher probability. Even if we don´t share the ethics of my comment I wonder if you truly believe that torture, ilegitimate detentions, air bombings have actually made Israel, Europe and USA safer.

I already spoke many times against Iran. I share your view that Ahmadinejad is a tremendous threat. But again I don´t see why it is OK to have a nuclear Pakistan whose population according to the Pew Institute Poll would elect Osama Bin Laden as president if they could vote and not Iran.

Be sure that if Iran goes ahead with their nuclear project, no country will do anything, besides Israel, of course.
Israel will finally attack Iran, with maybe some casualties, and the world will blame them Israel, as usual, …. for saving the world.

If you don’t want this to happen, do something !!! Speak against Iran please.

I dislike Bush and Bush’s politics too, but if you criticize the USA and Israel all the time, you get along with terrorism.
Think again Martin.