TERRORISM: A problem that MUST be solved

“Terrorism is the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion….Common definitions in terrorism are those acts which are intended to create fear (terror)" (Wikipedia, September 2008)

“In terrorism, terrorist attack will have many direct and indirect victims.” (Dr. Mark Lerner,2006) As what people are introduced about terrorism, many will say that terrorism is present if there are bombings and killings by cutting their heads suicide bombers. Those are the things that will come out of many of the people’s mind if they hear the word. “Terrorism is recognizable by a following statement from the perpetrators:
a.) Violence
b.) Psychological impact and fear
c.) Deliberate targeting of non-combatants
d.) Disguise
e.) Unlawful or illegitimacy” (Wikipedia,2008)

Dr. Stephen Younger, Director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, recently
lamented that too much effort has been placed on technological solutions to the war on terrorism, stating "this is not a technology problem" and asserting that "the single most important thing we can do to predict future acts of terrorism is to understand the causes of terrorism." Then what are the causes of Terrorism? Amy Zalman says, “There are two causes of terrorism: 1.) Social and Political Injustice: People choose terrorism when they are trying to right what they perceive to be a social or political or historical wrong—when they have been stripped of their land or rights, or denied these. 2.) The belief that violence or its threat will be effective, and usher in change. Another way of saying this is: the belief that violent means justify the ends. Many terrorists in history said sincerely that they chose violence after long deliberation, because they felt they had no choice.” Terrorism mostly become present because of terrorists attempts of putting down the government or the people who engages in ruling a country. Secretary of State for International Development of the UK, Hilary Benn (2005), argued that “terrorism can plant its roots in poverty. Corruption, poor governance, economic mismanagement and a lack of representative politics all can play a part in alienating and radicalizing poor people.”

Terrorism erodes at both individual and community level. Terrorism may result to once psychological trauma especially for the children who have been present on the attempt. It also may cause a Community to experience poverty because of their damaged properties like companies that pays much tax that helps a country. Terrorism can not only destroy ones property but also a country’s reputation among their neighbors because others may think that that country was not a peaceful country and they may be harmed when they visit that kind of country and so on. There are many things or effects of terrorism that people can think of. Nature too, can be destroyed by some terrorist attacks, some ideological type of terrorism may also be one of the reasons of Global warming that we are encountering as of today. Some of these terrorists tactics were killings of whales that is widely done in Japan also the arson can hurt our nature not only the people who owns that property. Those bombings cause Carbon Dioxide that is thinning the ozone layer and cause global warming. A bombing attempt on a day on one country is not only that country’s problem but will be a problem worldwide and may be hard to be resolved.

Terrorism causes a country terrible. It made people grieve and feel unsafe of their own country. Terrorism must be resolved because of those harmful effects on the people that have been in the incidents. So what does people thinking to terminate terrorism? Many said that it’s hard to stop terrorism so they proposed to stop it with full force. So, there comes Counter Terrorism that enables the military, police and others to catch or put into jail those suspected terrorists and have some kind of “war” against them. No proposed force did terminate terrorism because this world is too powerful that no one can destroy it unless we will unite and help each other against it stop it.