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U.S. “War On Terror” Has INCREASED Terrorism
The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) Global Terrorism Database – part of a joint government-university program on terrorism - is hosted at the University of Maryland.
START is the most comprehensive open source terrorism database, which can be viewed by journalists and civilians lacking national security clearance.
A quick review of charts from the START database show that terrorism has increased in the last 9 years since the U.S. started its “war on terror”.
This chart shows the number of terror attacks conducted in Iraq:
The Middle East:
Asia:
Indeed, global terrorism had been falling from 1992 until 2004 … but has been skyrocketing since 2004:
Our Wars In the Middle East Have Created More Terrorists
Security experts – including both conservatives and liberals – agree that waging war in the Middle East weakens national security and increases terrorism. See this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this.
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Killing innocent civilians is one of the main things which increases terrorism. As one of the top counter-terrorism experts (the former number 2 counter-terrorism expert at the State Department) told me, starting wars against states which do not pose an imminent threat to America’s national security increases the threat of terrorism because:
One of the principal causes of terrorism is injuries to people and families.
The Iraq war wasn’t even fought to combat terrorism. And Al Qaeda wasn’t even in Iraq until the U.S. invaded that country.
And top CIA officers say that drone strikes increase terrorism (and see this).
Furthermore, James K. Feldman – former professor of decision analysis and economics at the Air Force Institute of Technology and the School of Advanced Airpower Studies – and other experts say that foreign occupation is the main cause of terrorism
University of Chicago professor Robert A. Pape – who specializes in international security affairs – points out:
Extensive research into the causes of suicide terrorism proves Islam isn’t to blame — the root of the problem is foreign military occupations.
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Each month, there are more suicide terrorists trying to kill Americans and their allies in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other Muslim countries than in all the years before 2001 combined.
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New research provides strong evidence that suicide terrorism such as that of 9/11 is particularly sensitive to foreign military occupation, and not Islamic fundamentalism or any ideology independent of this crucial circumstance. Although this pattern began to emerge in the 1980s and 1990s, a wealth of new data presents a powerful picture.
More than 95 percent of all suicide attacks are in response to foreign occupation, according to extensive research [co-authored by James K. Feldman - former professor of decision analysis and economics at the Air Force Institute of Technology and the School of Advanced Airpower Studies] that we conducted at the University of Chicago’s Project on Security and Terrorism, where we examined every one of the over 2,200 suicide attacks across the world from 1980 to the present day. As the United States has occupied Afghanistan and Iraq, which have a combined population of about 60 million, total suicide attacks worldwide have risen dramatically — from about 300 from 1980 to 2003, to 1,800 from 2004 to 2009. Further, over 90 percent of suicide attacks worldwide are now anti-American. The vast majority of suicide terrorists hail from the local region threatened by foreign troops, which is why 90 percent of suicide attackers in Afghanistan are Afghans.
Israelis have their own narrative about terrorism, which holds that Arab fanatics seek to destroy the Jewish state because of what it is, not what it does. But since Israel withdrew its army from Lebanon in May 2000, there has not been a single Lebanese suicide attack. Similarly, since Israel withdrew from Gaza and large parts of the West Bank, Palestinian suicide attacks are down over 90 percent.
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The first step is recognizing that occupations in the Muslim world don’t make Americans any safer — in fact, they are at the heart of the problem.
Our Program of Torture Created Terrorists
In addition, torture creates new terrorists:
- One of the top military interrogators said that torture by Americans of innocent Iraqis is the main reason that foreign fighters started fighting against Americans in Iraq in the first place (and see this).
- Former counter-terrorism czar Richard A. Clarke says that America’s indefinite detention without trial and abuse of prisoners is a leading Al Qaeda recruiting tool
- A former FBI interrogator — who interrogated Al Qaeda suspects — says categorically that torture actually turns people into terrorists
- A 30-year veteran of CIA’s operations directorate who rose to the most senior managerial ranks, says:
Torture creates more terrorists and fosters more acts of terror than it could possibly neutralize.
- A former US Air Force interrogator said that torture just creates more terrorists
- A former U.S. interrogator and counterintelligence agent, and Afghanistan veteran said, “Torture puts our troops in danger, torture makes our troops less safe, torture creates terrorists. It’s used so widely as a propaganda tool now in Afghanistan. All too often, detainees have pamphlets on them, depicting what happened at Guantanamo.”
- The Senate Armed Services Committee unanimously stated:
“The administration’s policies concerning [torture] and the resulting controversies … strengthened the hand of our enemies.”
- Two professors of political science have demonstrated that torture increases, rather than decreases, terrorism
- General Petraeus said that torture hurts our national security
- And the reporter who broke Iran-Contra and other stories says that torture actually helped Al Qaeda, by giving false leads to the U.S. which diverted its military, intelligence and economic resources into wild goose chases
So the widespread program of torture under the Bush administration didn’t help.
Nice Job Creating More Terrorists, You Morons …
Additionally – in the name of fighting our enemies – the U.S. has directly been supporting Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups for the last decade. See this, this, this, this and this.
Why Have We Given Up Our Rights If the Government Can’t Keep Us Safe?
We have given up the fundamental rights which make us American.
The government insisted that – if we gave up our liberties – it would keep us safe.
It has failed to do so, and has instead squandered our national treasure, our resources and our troops on efforts which have only increased the risk of terrorism.
Wasted Defense Spending
A large amount of the homeland security spending has been wasted … producing “a bunch of crap”.
For example, spending money on zombie apocalypse training or other silly programs is a bad investment which led to a false sense of security.
Spending defense money on a workshop called “Did Jesus die for Klingons too?” and DOD-run microbreweries is probably not helping stop terrorist attacks.
Moreover, using homeland security resources to spy on average Americans or crack down on peaceful protesters or government critics distracts from getting the actual bad guys.
At the same time, both the Bush and Obama administrations have slashed funding for programs which would actually help prevent terror attacks.
Heck of a job, guys …
The Real Agenda
Regime change was planned throughout the Middle East and North Africa were planned 20 years ago … long before 9/11.
As just one example, U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, 4-Star General (and CENTCOM commander with responsibility for Iraq) John Abizaid, key war architect John Bolton, a high-level National Security Council officer, President George W. Bush, Bush speech writer David Frum, Senator John McCain, Fed boss Alan Greenspan and Sarah Palin all say that the Iraq war was about oil. Documents from Britain show the same thing.
Much of the war on terror is really a fight for natural gas. Or to force the last few hold-outs into dollars and private central banking.
Senior government officials have described terrorist attacks as a “small price to pay for being a superpower”. And while politicians talk about ending the war on terror, endless war is a feature – not a bug – of our foreign policy.
Whatever the real agenda one thing is clear … In the same way that NSA spying isn’t about preventing terrorism (proof here, here, here and here), the war on terror is cover for other shenanigans.
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The events on 9/11/2001 were an inside job, false flag attack, that were deliberately designed to increase terrorism. They were self-fulfilling prophesies at work, which were intended to drive vicious spirals of more terrorism, and murders in the form of genocidal wars and democidal martial law. 9/11 was an investment in mass murder, intended to pay back more mass murders in the future, which have a longer term prospectus which has barely begun to fulfill what it was overall intended to achieve. Furthermore, as Max Keiser expostulates upon during almost every episode of his show, by far the greatest terrorists in the world are the financial terrorists, the biggest gangsters, the banksters! After all, Neolithic Civilization is a SOCIAL PYRAMID SYSTEM, which was fundamentally based upon terrorism! The only thing that is new is the technologies which have made that become orders of magnitude worse than it ever could have been before.
Why is it so hard to believe that 19 hateful wackos killed 3000 people with 4 airplanes? Oh, nevermind, crawl back under the rocks and work on the next conspiracy theory.
Building 7. Explain it.
You might have good ethics and morality but don't project it upon the powers that be who do not.
They need a bunch of real terrorist attacks so that the big, staged ones fit into the narrative better.
They need another trillion dollars.
They need people to beg for the dictatorship they have planned.
They need the world to hate America for hundreds of years after the current regime is gone. This will hinder the rebirth.
They need people to hate each other, instead of hating them. Divide and conquer.
They need everyone in a constant state of fear.
They need more juice for lucifer.
They need good people to lose their souls.
Spot on! It's The Global Criminal Oligarch Cabal Bankster Intelligence Crime Syndicate.
I see we have some nice intelligent poeple writing here
So the war on Irak was justified (how many poeple died, 200 000 ) for what reason already!!? mm try to answer that, maybe you'll say the guy was a dictator mmmh
and saoudi arabia the US friend is a... should we remind everyone that the grand mufti in this country said in march 2012 that all churches in the region should be destroyed!
that's one example, no nead to be a genius to know that the US foreign policy is backfiring and creating terrorist acts
Looks like efforts to create a new boogeyman, fueling defense spending has worked admirably, in hell.
re U.S. “War On Terror” Has INCREASED Terrorism
And - in other Breaking News - It Can Now Be Revealed that:
- US War On Drugs Has INCREASED Drug Use,
- US War On Poverty Has INCREASED Poverty
- US Public Education Has INCREASED Illiteracy
- US Onerous Taxaction has INCREASED US Indebtedness
- US Bailing The TBTF Banks Has INCREASED Their Stealing
- US Surveillance For Safety Has Made YOU The Enemy
and, last but not least....
US UNIVERSAL Healthcare - OBAMACare - is INREASING those with NO HEALTHCARE and, at the same time, DESTROYING full-time jobs....
Everything going "according to plan"....
NO ONE SAW IT COMING!
... and so it is in Satan's world. You think I am joking? Sadly, no ...
No, unfortunately not. These Elite are pure Evil as well as their Minions.
Funny how 'americans' favour solutions that always beget more consumption. Everything is engineered to enable even more 'americanism'
So an 'american' answer to the article: it is stupid to say that the fight against terrorism increases terrorism. It is like telling that building prisons increase criminality. No, you build prisons because criminality increases. Just as you step up war on terror because there are more and more terrorists.
'American',then,now, forever...
Hey, who's paying you to write deceit?
Ha make me laugh. Chinese citizenism making educational display attempts. The terrorism of roadside blobbings is to be spread to Earth planet wholesale. Billions of defecations will be spread 100 feet high. Chinese citizenism is E Coli terrorism to Earth planet.
Funny how Chinese citizenism citizens favour solutions that always beget more blobbing up. Everything is engineered to enable even more Chinese citizenism.
So a Chinese citizenism answer to the article: it is stupid to say that the fight against flush toiletry increases insanitation. It is like telling that building roads increases public roadside crapping. No, you build roads because public roadside crapping increases. Just as you step up insanitational war on flush toiletry because there are more and more Chinese citizenism citizens crapping on roadsides.
Chinese citizenism propagandists, they will try as much as possible to stay out of the path of the charging bull and wave a red cloth under its bully eyes, then,now, forever...
Apparently Chinese propaganda doesn't use silly merkin key performance indicators to gauge effectiveness of the message, else ananon-an-on-an-on would be on a new career path today.
Nice thing with 'americans': they never miss an opportunity to propagate, to further their agenda.
'Americans' are bullies at heart and bullies never begin hostilities, they are always victims. When facing retaliation for their bullying act, they simply withdraw their past action, pretend nothing in their previous behaviour called for retaliation, deny self defense response and introduce themselves as the victim.
It happens at all sorts of levels with the Zimmerman 'american' story or when 'americans' invade countries.
The bottom of that 'american' propaganda article is that when you retaliate on 'americans', you are a terrorist.
People saw their country invaded, people around them got killed, when they react to that aggression, they are terrorists.
For 'americans', there is no legitimate cause for anyone to respond to their aggression.
When you do that, you are a terrorist. Involved in terrorist action.
What's with all the red arrows on this? AnAnonymous has hit the nail squarely on the head. America carries out more terrorist acts that the rest of the world combined over a 1000 year period
You know nothing of us.
WE THE PEOPLE are no longer of OUR GOVERNMENT.
OUR GOVERNMENT is no longer of WE THE PEOPLE.
Not true. The vast majority of Americans are still good people with good hearts. One should make a distinction between the US government (including those who have usurped its power) and the American people.
The American people do not do what you are saying. It is the US terrorist government... and even many in government do not realize that they are being used by evil or are only doing what they do because they are afraid. Those who captured the US government have set up the US people to take the fall for the actions of a few very evil being.
The vast majority of Americans are still good people with good hearts that are fast asleep.... fixed it.
Those good hearts of american are worth of shit if your soldiers (also with good hearts??) are killing people in distant countries and nobody of these good americans gives a fuck.
Fuck you!
That's Hollywood and the MSM. America is a beautiful mosaic. Whatever you think you have, we also have and will fuck you with 10 fold.
This contrasts nicely with a graph that was getting about ~6 to 9 months back, that showed terrorism from WWII to present has steadily decreased from a high level to a much lower level, thus showing that the War on Terror, and all the insane security state legislation, and the media and govt dhs scare-campaigns, had no basis in actual facts. It was displayed on a local ABC TV program called "Planet America", and I posted a video of the segment, here at zh, soon after it went to air.
I'd be greatful for a link ...
I'm fairly confident this was the episode, it was done right after the Boston bombings, when people in the US were going right off the deep-end so one of the hosts put up the graph to illustrate that the terrorism risk in the US today is minuscule, when compared to past eras:
Planet America Friday April 19
Posted April 20, 2013 00:34:08
"Sorry, this video has expired"
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-20/planet-america-friday-april-19/464...
Looks like Google doesn't even index zh comments anymore and the zh search function is almost useless for finding old comments and content. I don't have a copy of the video on hard drive either. I did a search for anyone talking about it, and still came up nix. Sorry.
"Winston, here is today's list of videos that never existed. Get to work."
I'll see if I can dig it up, I expect I've originally posted it in one of your posts.
USA "War on Terror" is in actuality a "War OF Terror"
Just a punctuation error. Should be USA War on; Terror.
+1. News today about Saudi's getting pissed over lack of US going gunz blazing on Syria outght to open a few eyes. Every day the invisible hand becomes more visible. Which ought to scare folks regarding how close to the edge everything is now.
Yes, Bandar let it all hang out and revealed who pays who to be a Saudi Merc army, and who funds who for regional destabilization to concoct a regional war under the guise of 'revolution', then actually wants the US Fleet to place itself in the gulf to protect the number one terrorist-state, from retribution from the east, and the north.
But Iran has this in its arsenal and many other systems, and the USN knows it will get hammered and lose most of a fleet, look weak, and would trigger WWIII, if they did what the Saudi's were demanding (basically that the USN become a proxy suicide-bomber for the saudi state).
http://thediplomat.com/the-editor/2013/06/22/irans-carrier-killer-missil...
But I don't see how the Saudis improve their strategic situation, or decrease their dependence and vulnerability, via throwing a wobbly and telling Washington and the UN to get stuffed. Who are they going to turn to, given it was Russia and China who stood against the US attack on Syria, in the UNSC?
Hey, you don't suppose they're stupid enough to use irregular forces like state-funded militias against the US as they did against the Russians? Yup, I think that may indeed be the plan here, and give them advanced weapons to do it. i.e. try to collapse the US like they collapsed the USSR when it was teetering, via asymmetric financial attrition, via warfare.
Frankly this Saudi hissy-fit looks like a classic case of massive over-estimation of strategic position and relative power, and probably the most clear-cut case that I know of, at least in the modern era.
What usually follows such a deluded strategic self-appraisal, historically, is that the over-estimating state or alliance, got hammered to dust and shown who's really the boss, by the stronger power, until that state or alliance agreed who's really the boss.
At present there are a couple of very serious candidates for doing this.
Yes, it is a War of Terror, and however insane our "leaders" were 45 years ago — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YspNkm0BKgw — they are vastly more so today, their powers having expanded to the point of complete and utter sociopathy. That they despise those they rule over and will lie to them without hesitation, much less remorse, is plain to see. Yet even in seeing it, the typical American suffers so completely from Stockholm syndrome — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome — that he will return, lemming-like, to the polls, oblivious of the fact that in perpetuating the statist quo, he is dooming himself to further abuse. Until and unless he can understand and accept this fact, then, there will be no change, only more of the same, until there is no more. Not of life as we know it, that is, the vast majority devasted, if not dead, as a result.
To paraphrase Isaac Newton - For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This applies in foreign policy as well.
In this particular case, the actors on both "sides" get their checks courtesy the US taxpayer. "Al Qaida" is nothing more, and never was anything more, than the name of the database of CIA assets in the Middle East and North Africa.
Al Qaida = CIA
Get that through your head and you'll have a better grip on what's really going on here.
now just overlay those graphs with the Fed Balance sheet, the S&P or whatever and we've got a perfect match
I think you could add in defense company profits and get a good correlation.