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Is the terrorism threat overblown? : Comments

By Katherine Wilson, published 3/10/2006

Commentators, terror experts and their media echo chamber are exagerrating the scale of the threat we face

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mickijo

You really should get over your hatred of Islam and Indonesia.

Indonesia has the 4th largest population of any country at 222,781,000 but it has the 110th per capita GDP at $4,458 per year.

Ever think that poverty may be related to terror?

The country has extensive natural resources outside Java, including crude oil, natural gas, tin, copper, and gold. Indonesia is the world’s largest LNG producer, exporting about 20% of the world’s total volume in 2002. In 2005, the income from exports was $83.64 billion.

Indonesia is a diverse country not without its ethnic tensions, particularly between Indonesians of Chinese ethnicity and the pribumi peoples, who are considered natives of Indonesia, "Non-Pribumi" people are not always considered entirely Indonesian. The riots in Jakarta in 1997 and 1998 highlight this recurring tension. Ethnic relations are strained mostly due to a perception that the Chinese community is too rich relative to the Pribumis.

The Bali bombings were not attacks on "us" they were attacks against capitalist greed.
Posted by Steve Madden, Tuesday, 3 October 2006 3:46:59 PM
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Can the threat be overrated?
Of course not! How else will the self intent, desirous of a place in the new history of Australia be assured of that place?
If such people really thought there was a threat, realising the our current and past actions act may be contributing , they would seek to find out what the grievance is.
But no apparently accepting the truncated reports even propaganda of the Americans, as revealed by the Rycroft memo to which if not party the government was knowledgeable, we went to war provoking later increased terrorist action. Even in Lebanon when the media as usual gave truncated incomplete biased reports the Prime Minister was quoted as dismissing the events as being of Hezbollahs making.
No, other agenda ruled for which terrorist threat ,which was and is real, is used to create conditions in which power is maintained.
At the price of 100,000 plus Iraqi lives we shelter under the American wing.
Truman refused the overthrow of Mossadegh, Eisenhower allowed the Dulles brothers to have their way,. Then as in Iraq hate, terrorism followed a consequence of meddling in other people affairs.
Something akin to a court of law like the UN may have been able to limit our creature Saddam to more reasonable behaviour.
Perhaps mindful of the many coups since from Guatemala on, the should know betters, as in 1953 decided otherwise.
This time even the possible but improbable Soviet threat was gone.
Posted by untutored mind, Tuesday, 3 October 2006 4:23:25 PM
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4,000 people die in the US So we spend a trillion dollars and kill tens of thousands in response.

1,000,000 die in Rwanda and we blame the UN. Hundreds of thousand threatened in the Sudan and we blame the UN.

Draw your own conclusions.
Posted by Kenny, Tuesday, 3 October 2006 6:05:41 PM
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Interesting, Untutored Mind, that you mention the overthrow of Irans fledgliing democracy in 1953, and its western educated and anti communist Mossadegh . You can view the details of this at http://video.google.com.au/videoplay?docid=786048453686176230&q=terrorstorm . This film was released at the recent 911 scholars symposium a couple of months ago in L.A
Posted by Toss, Tuesday, 3 October 2006 6:46:06 PM
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The left in our communities are using Muslim Facism as a tool to overthrow the present democratic status quo.You do not measure the danger by the explosions.The bombs are just a ploy to get our attention.The real war is psychological.The Facists are playing a long term war of attrition.Our short term media driven memories need to be fed constantly to verify our fears.

The US got sucked into Iraq by the Facists.This ia exactly what they wanted.The US desperately needs another terror attack at home to maintain the momentum of this war,so the Facists will continue to goad them abroad.They know that the US public with their Hollywood attention spans do not have the stomach for protracted conflicts.
These facists have immigrated to every Western on the planet and they only have the play the waiting game of niggling social,economic and political unrest,whilst using our own democracies against us.

Just watch as the first European countries slowly undergo a slow metamorphisis to placate the violent Muslim Facists.The Bush administration are fools since they do not have long term strategies to combat their opponents.They have been watching too many of Arnold's movies.

The Facists know that they will win in the end,because we do not have the stomach for a fight.The politics of violence and confusion has worked form them for centuries.It is not good for prosperity but gives power to a few lunatics.

This article only bears witness to that reality by only measuring the threat as purely physical,rather than the slow destruction of our democracies from within.
Posted by Arjay, Tuesday, 3 October 2006 10:09:16 PM
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An interesting article.

George W. recently said at a press conference that the "war on terror" was a war for "civilisation itself". This is precisely what the Hawks would have us believe.

The 3000 deaths on September 11, the 202 killed in Bali, the 56 people killed in London and the 191 people killed in Madrid are all terrible tragedies. However, they in no way imperiled civilisation itself. While I would be quick to regect any notion that these attacks weren't horrible, did not bring any of the target countries to their knees.

Terrorism can only destroy "civilisation" (and by civilisation, I think Dubya was refering to Western Civilisation) if we in the west let out lives be ruled by the fear of it. The respect for civil liberties is one of the greatest strengths of western civilisation.

We must stop looking over our shoulders in fear and start looking forward. We must find practical ways to defeat terrorism, by reducing poverty, mediating and solving long held grudges and disputes, and by leading by example, rather than entering into morally reprehensable wars.
Posted by la1985, Tuesday, 3 October 2006 10:22:33 PM
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