An Open Letter To Terrorism

[FallOutBoy2001]

Dear Terrorism,

Hi. You don't know me, I'm just one of the 1.8 billion of faceless teenagers in the world, a world you seem to be hell- bent on destroying. You're a hundred-headed hydra, and when we cut one head off, two more take its place. Some of your more famous heard are the IRA, who were involved in the Irish Revolution, Al-Qaeda, who orchestrated 9/11 and brought down the twin towers, the Black Hand, who sparked World War I, which in turn led to World War II, and ISIS, which has been responsible for terror attacks all over the world, and now controls many parts of the Middle East.

Like most teenagers, I've grown up with you. Unlike previous generations, terrorism is all I know. I was born shortly before 9/11, and cannot remember the twin towers, or a world where lax security is the norm. Yes, you were definitely there before I was born, as there were terror attacks dating back to the Irish Revolution and the World Wars, but you're more frequent now. You've seen me stare at the TV during Boston, San Bernardino, Orlando, Brussels, and France, twice, as you committed acts of terror. You seem to be omnipresent, always there, lurking. You make the adults worry, you make them scared to go outside, want to do all they can to shield themselves from the harm, because they remember a world where this didn't happen, this is new to them, a change. To them, you are an angry, snarling beast with sharp teeth, waiting to rip them apart.

My generation, however, is a different story. Yeah, the adults tell us that nothing will happen to us, that no terror attack is going to happen to us. We know better though. The people of San Bernadino, Paris, Boston, Brussels? They didn't know that they would be attacked. We aren't safe, none of us are. You probably think that creates fear, but you would be wrong. See, when you know that today, you could be shot and killed, bombed or murdered in cold blood for no reason, that today could be your last day alive, you start living differently. There's no "let's wait for a better time" because we know that for us, there might not be a better time. You make us think what is important and what is not, and make us act accordingly. We don't live in fear of you, you don't hold us back. To us, you are a beast with no teeth, we don't fear you anymore.

Many people say terrorism won't go away, it's always going to be there, but that's not true, and this isn't just me be optimistic. In order for terrorism to exist, you need us to fear you, for there to be terror. That exists now, as the current generation in power, the one that our parents are part of, is scared of you; however, when my generation comes to power, you're fucked. You'll be wasting your time and energy, men and supplies trying to frighten members of a generation that cannot be frightened by you anymore.

Just let that sink in.

Think it over, let it really sink in,

You created what is ultimately going to destroy you. You've dug your graves and given us the gun to shoot you in. By continuously trying to terrorize us, you created a generation who is unfazed by you.

Even if you try and continue to terrorize us, wasting time and energy, men and supplies, we will be your end. You will die at our hands, whether it be you withering away from lack of reaction to your attacks, or us picking up weapons and destroying you. With death looming over our heads, why not bring you down with us? If we're going to die, we'll make sure to go down kicking and screaming. The absence of fear makes a dangerous man, because the fear of death cannot stop him.

Thank you, for creating a generation that is learning to live it's life to full potential, and thank you for creating the generation that no longer fears you.

I hope you're proud.

Sincerely,

The faceless 1.8 billion

This letter was originally written in response to the terrorist attack in Orlando, Florida at a gay nightclub. As I was getting prepared to post it, the #SeeMyWork contest began, and I decided to enter the contest. Good luck to my fellow competitors.

[helloitsmethere]

Ikr... as a faceless teenager myself, I can relate. I wasn't even old enough to remember the first and last time I visited the WTC, the news channels were constantly on stories about The War on Terrorism, mass shootings, bombings of events, people being killed for no reason etc. and I knew from a very young age, even though our parents, teachers, elders tried to reassure us that 'everything will be fine' I could see through bullshit and know that absolutely nowhere in the world is safe.

[FallOutBoy2001]

I wish they'd stop lying to us, it's pretty clear that they're lying

[helloitsmethere]

ikr... we already know what's happening

[FallOutBoy2001]

We're not blind

[noneoftheabove]

the world has never been safe. just don't let that affect how you live your life

[RainbowFanGirl]

Why are people being such assholes to this take? It's a girl who is fed up with the violence in our world and wanted to let out her feelings. That's it. That was the point of this take.

[FallOutBoy2001]

Thanks :)

[meowcow]

Your youth and inexperience blinds you to what's really happening in the world. And probably to a large extent, the garbage you see on social media has also warped your perception of what is really going on.

To put it simply, those who you call "terrorists" have a much different view of what is right and wrong compared to you. You know what the funny thing is? Both sides, (westerners and terrorists) believe they are doing good in the world.

All you see is the pampered coddled lifestyle you live in a 1st world country, and think that terrorists are out to destroy your livelihood.

You cannot even begin to imagine life in the country where your "terrorists" are born. In those countries, the average citizen grows up under the foreign policies developed by Americans to crush their lifestyle and livelihood. In those countries, they have seen Americans manipulate their governments, toppling their presidents so that US-friendly officials take office. When the US incites civil war in other countries, and replaces their existing leader with one that is US-friendly, the result is that the US capitalizes on that relationship to the detriment of the citizens of Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Iran... etc. The result is that the US citizens gain at the expense of non-US people.

I live in Canada and even my country feels the pressure of the US. Americans use their economic power to crush Canadian industries, place huge taxes on our products entering the US so that Americans do not buy our products, and instead buy US products only. Our factories go bankrupt as a result. Any retaliation by imposing taxes on American products result in retaliatory trade barriers on wheat, wood... etc. Americans have also destroyed Canadian military development (look up Canada's Avro Arrow military craft) so that Canada is dependent on buying US aircrafts from Lockheed Martin, rather than developing the technology ourselves.

To terrorists, they see themselves as the rebel faction in Star Wars fighting a justified battle, while the US is Darth Vader. They see themselves as the alliance of nations in WW2, while the US is Nazi Germany trying to extinguish all non-Americans. They see themselves as the Robin Hood, the righteous and the fair. Yet, Americans think they are also fighting the good fight.

Until you can see the issue from your enemy's perspective, you will never understand them, and neither side will win the war.

[thewanderingme]

your factories go bankrupt because we don't buy your products? that is the most ridiculous thing I've read on here all day. what's wrong with Canadians that they can't buy their own countries stuff?

[FallOutBoy2001]

@thewanderingme he's right you know. The US has sucessful factories because everyone inside AND outside buys our products

[thewanderingme]

ok? its not our fault their countries and their industries are weak.

[TwistedLogic]

Exactly! Very well said.. I would like to point out that these people have poor levels of education. Religion and God seem to be the only things that give hope to these folks; knowing that their lives wasn't wasted on nothing and that they served a higher purpose. Albeit it is truly sad to see indifferent civilians get caught in the middle of this. But you are absolutely right; this is a product of American imperialism and the barbaric actions of our troops in countries they had no business getting into in the first place. What is happening on both ends is tragic, but we all got blood on our hands.

+1 for your self-awareness and your ability to apply yourself to someone else's perspective.

[Careless_Whisper]

Typical leftist liberal. For your information, Muslims were committing terrorism long before America started invading their countries.

[meowcow]

@thewanderingme

Have any economic experience at all? I suspect not if you think that statement is ridiculous.

The US government heavily subsidizes its own companies, borrowing money from banks and giving it to US corporations for free (or reduce their taxes) to reduce their costs and artificially lower their prices. When you pay $50,000 for a US-brand car, the US government has actually paid for a large percentage of that, so that Americans keep buying shitty brands like Ford and GM. The purpose is to fuel domestic spending on home-grown goods and deter the American public from buying better imported products like BMWs, Audis and other international brands.

The same concept applies to most US foods, the US-Canada softwood lumber agreement, and refusing to allow finished imported products from other countries (the US demands that raw materials like logs are sent to the US, where Americans can turn them into finished products to make jobs).

Back to school you go.

[meowcow]

@Careless_Whisper

Invading other nations is something the US seems to be very good at. But it didn't start there. The British and US were responsible for splitting the middle eastern land of Palestine to create Israel in post WWI. The purpose was to create a Western-friendly country smack in the middle of the richest oil producing land on the planet, to ensure future energy security. Since then, the people in the middle east have been in constant US-backed civil wars, trying to convert other countries to their own puppet states. US sells both sides guns, military vehicles. Then to step in at the end when everyone's dead. Now ask why they're hated so much.

Here's an interesting watch to see what the US is doing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LaSD8oFBZE

Wonder why so few Americans die in modern wars? The US hires thousands of private US military contractors to fight for them. Private contractors who die are not counted as military deaths, even if they are US civilians.

[thewanderingme]

the us government doesn't pay for anything, first off. taxpayers might, but that makes no sense because then basically you're claiming taxpayers taxes lower the cost of products they then turn around and buy.

anyway, as I said why can't Canadians buy their own products? if your factories are being shut down its your own governments and citizens fault, not any Americans.

[Careless_Whisper]

I'm not condoning the evil that Western governments have done and are still doing. My point is that for centuries the religion of Islam has been murdering innocent people, raping women, and oppressing those who reject Islam. Even if America left Islamic nations alone, Muslims would still be killing in the name of Islam. The land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people.

[meowcow]

@Careless_Whisper

It wasn't too long ago when Americans were killing themselves in witch burnings in the name of Christianity, and women were expected to cook and clean in kitchens and shamed for working, and blacks had to sit at the back of the bus, and where there were separate black and white washrooms. All in America.

Mind you that America still has backward hicks who rape preteens (refer to Utah and their polygamous communities, much of which was covered when Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped, and David Koresh in Waco TX). America still has a strong racist culture of white supremacists and KKK supporters down south. I'm not even American and know this, so I'm pretty sure much of the civilized world knows this too.

I'd say the same issues in Islamic nations also exist in the US. Americans just have a different view of their own circumstance and like to pretend it's a smaller problem than it really is.

[meowcow]

@thewanderingme

Who ever said Canadians don't buy their own products? How did you come to that conclusion.

I said that the US government is preventing Americans access to other markets by force-feeding their own shit down American throats, while lowering taxes and subsidizing corporations to make low cost American-made products appear more cost efficient than higher quality products from other countries.

The 2007 recession should have tipped you off on how the US subsidizes its companies. How many major corporations were bankrupt and bailed out by the government? Lehmans. GM. Washington Mutual. A lot more didn't go bankrupt but received massive bailouts totaling in the hundreds of billions. Essentially, without the government spoonfeeding them, American corporations could not survive the global competition.

... and you said "The US government doesn't pay for anything".

[Careless_Whisper]

In America they don't stone women for being raped, nor do they behead people who leave Christianity. But Islam does these things.

[thewanderingme]

well if Canadians are buying their own products then why are you blaming Americans for their factories going bankrupt?

[thewanderingme]

also, American made products are not cheap, their much more expensive. American owned products made in poor countries are cheap.

[meowcow]

@thewanderingme

You're not very bright are you. You keep asking the same question after it's been explained 3 times.

[thewanderingme]

there's no need to be condescending. no, I didn't study economics, maybe you should find a better way to explain your opinion.

either way the reality is your own country is letting its companies down, but instead of acknowledging that you choose to scapegoat the US.

[Curmudgeon]

Gee, what was that North American Trade agreement again, and it has been in place with Canada for three decades now?

[VomitV]

Well, this accomplishes absolutely nothing.

You think terrorism could possibly wither away just by ignoring it? That didn't work well in past wars. Hitler swept Europe. Napoleon swept Europe. There goals aren't going to change, regardless of the reactions of other nations. They still want non-Muslims and Muslims of other denominations annihilated, and you'd only be making the job that much easier.

As for going on the offensive - pfft. Like that will ever happen in an efficient manner. Scorched-military operations simply don't exist for first-world countries anymore. Too much bitching about the "human rights" of terrorist supporters and other bleeding-heart crap. Your plan seems to be committing seppuku in some self-destructive campaign against a nebulous terrorist target, which is both incredibly ineffective and stupid. Tactical decisions aside, I doubt YOU will be spearheading the attack on some suffocatingly hot desert shithole, so save the bravado.

If this generation is going to be making foreign policy or military decisions, ISIS and friends are going to have a fucking field day. I hope we just get a nuclear holocaust instead.

[FallOutBoy2001]

I mean joining the armed forces is one of two career paths I'm thinking about pursuing, so yeah I would spearhead it given the chance.

Napoleon and Hitler didn't rely on terrorizing innocents. The terrorists lose their power if we aren't afraid of them.

[VomitV]

Do you not understand what terrorists aim for, or their methodology? They usually come from impoverished countries and backgrounds, meaning they rely on primitive guerilla fighting strategy, like explosives and small-scale attacks. If they had the resources for a proper military - which ISIS is already progressing on - you can bet they'll become much more brazen, the same way Napoleon and Hitler were with armies at their command.

Their goal is genocide, and they're not going to vanish if you ignore them - they're not a house spider. They'll just keep building their strength if you try to downplay their actions or turn a blind eye to them.

[anonman32]

the nazis were the first to use terror campaigns, they used those in the netherlands to prevent a resistance movement from rising up. both the allied forces and the nazis have bombed civilian targets for this purpose, both have used terrorism.

[Lynx122]

Ehm have you looked around? I think terrorists have been pretty successful. After 9/11 the U. S. threw human rights out the window started torture and mass surveillance and started a ton of wars bombings and drone strikes that killed mostly civilians. The U. S. miltary leaked documents showed that drone strikes kill 90% innocent civilians. And that creates more hate and more terrorists. There re more terrorists than when the war on terror started because of the terrible strategy used by the U. S. and all I see is hate and fear. Donald Trump has a good chance of becoming president and you say there's no fear? I think in the U. S. the terrorists have had the most success of spreading fear and hate tbh. Unfazed really? I don't really see what you're basing this whole mytake on but I think you're deluded.

[jacquesvol]

Terrofists were only duvcessfull because the GW Bush administration wanted it that way. All that loss of rights was planned. 911 just gave the govt the means support and excuses to implement it.

[wxyc423]

Thanks for the comment I rlly like it.

[tyber1]

Almost everyone sees themselves as the good guy. Even terrorists. Especially terrorists. They see themselves as the rag-tag, poorly equipped rebels taking on a technologically superior empire that wishes to crush them. The average person in the middle east does not know the rationale for western foreign policy, they see an oppressive foreign government who wishes to control them and who is willing to bomb their countries into submission. I have no doubt they see themselves as the good guys and westerners as the bad guys. Westerners think they are the good guy and the Islamic radicals are the bad guy. The truth is they are both the bad guy.

[YourNextEX]

I don't agree. Communists and Nazis saw themselves as good guys too. Does that mean they really were good guys? No way. I put Muslim terrorists in the same boat as Nazis and Communists. Despite their beliefs that they are good, they really are bad. (That only applies to Muslims terrorists, not all Muslims.)

[tyber1]

@YourNextEX I wonder why I bother. You don't disagree with me at all.

[Curmudgeon]

If it is any consolation, Terrorism was a big part of the Cold War, which I lived through, and back then was more often than not Soviet sponsored!

But terrorists back then didn't want to die *themselves*, so in that sense it is worse. The Godless had something to lose by not living to see their dreamed socialist utopia even if it turned out to be a mirage and a lie.

People who believe in 72 angel-virgins waiting for them, not so much. :(

[Curmudgeon]

Also, I must admit that Cold War terrorism usually only happened in "banana republics" or nations that were already defined battlegrounds, and hardly ever in the USA, save for some radical campus groups. Although Europeans did have The Red Brigades, the Baader-Meinhoff Gang, or the I. R. A. terrorizing their lands.

[FallOutBoy2001]

See terrorists who want to stay alive are much easier to combate because they have something to lose, ones who want to die are not, because you're just helping them die

[Eugene]

Greetings from terrorism.

Thank you for your letter. However, we're not as bad as you think. We just are doing what USA is paying us to do.

Kind regards,
Terrorism.

[FallOutBoy2001]

You know, that comment honestly gave me a good laugh

[YourNextEX]

Why would America pay terrorists to kill people in the Middle East. Europe and America?

[Eugene]

@YourNextEX
in short? National Debt: https://www.usdebtclock.org/

USA already had times when either their economy was low, or it had debt issues. Those times were fixed "thanks" to HUGE wars abroad (WW1, WW2), when not only USA was able to sell loads and loads of warfare, but also managed to climb due to collapse of competition on market.

It needs to either destabilize Europe to the point of either civil war and economic collapse (hence why it's destabilizing Middle East and creates "refugees") to have the rich flee the country to a safe haven (along with their money) and eliminate any sort of competition on the market, or to rob some country full with natural resources blindly, such as Russia (hence why it created a coup in Ukraine and is trying to destabilize nearby regions/countries via NGO).

[YourNextEX]

Our economy wasn't bad in 2001 when terrorists attacked us. And it's not bad now. It was bad in 2008-2009, but not now. And destabilizing other parts of the world isn't good for the U. S. economy.

[Eugene]

@YourNextEX
I guess you don't see bigger picture.

[YourNextEX]

What is the bigger picture? Out GDP growth is decent.

[Eugene]

@YourNextEX
Yet debt exceeds it; in terms of economy that's catastrophic. Debt is bigger than GPD.

To put it in a slightly more understandable language:

Imagine you have a debt. And not only it exceeds the value of *everything* you own (house, car, furniture, clothes, food, you name it), but it also grows faster than your income. Basically that means if you'd sell everything (inc. your kidneys and your kids) and become a homeless, naked bum, you'd still owe something. You also have a family (citizens) that kinda-loosely know something's wrong, but you don't explain it well enough to your wife and kids, to prevent panic between kids and nagging of your wife.

[Eugene]

@YourNextEX
Since your house is like a fortress and you're a heavily armed, buffed and ripped individual, just arriving to seize your possessions isn't that easy for those whom you owe (since they aren't that strong to challenge you... yet). So in your best interest is to have those that you owe... disappear. Or find measures to make sure they never grow strong enough to force you to return their money back. Or quietly rob someone wealthy enough to repay your debts.

That's kinda like a position in terms of economy where USA is now. You may google more info, if you're interested.

[YourNextEX]

You are right that our GDP (wealth) and debt are roughly equal, but all we have to do is raise taxes on our rich people and that will improve the debt. We have so many really rich people here. Raising taxes isn't ideal, but it's not "catastrophic." I am pretty sure when Ronald Reagan left office the USA was in massive debt, too. There were no catastrophic economic consequences. In my opinion, ten years from now the USA will still have the world's strongest economy. Time will tell.

[Eugene]

@YourNextEX
In theory, however, practice shows that trying to apply higher taxes to the wealthy leads to a counter-action;
First of all, overwhelming majority of politicians owe big time to the wealthy people (who funded them and probably have loads of compromising material that would lead to a political career suicide), therefore they wouldn't really approve something like this.
Second, those laws would have tricky loopholes that would allow the most wealthiest ones evade it.
Third, it'd make outsourcing even more common.

So that's unlikely to work; hence why US is trying to pull stuff I've explained previously.
Therefore, it is in world's best interests to see US collapse. That would be quite beneficial, especially for us. That would also allow to return Alaska back, something that I'm quite in favor of.

[YourNextEX]

Communists have been predicting the decline of American capitalism for one hundred years, and we keep getting richer and more technologically advanced. I think predicting the demise of American capitalism is just wishful thinking.

[Eugene]

@YourNextEX
Everything comes to an end, eventually.

[Anonymous]

Well terrorists aren't Randon muslim people , terrorists were first created by US in Afghanistan and it was Taliban, They also created Al Qayda and ISIS in middle east to control Oil Facilities in that area , thats why its hard to remove ISIS from these areas and control it again coz your Government supports ISIS , your government only does this to make people hate islam and control 3rd world countries , Islam is 1400 years old but terrorists are present about 20 to 25 years ago and due to US invading other countries they formed.
So if you want to stop Terrorism start from changing your politics and government.

[bobbyxx]

The USA and the UK both caused all terrorist organizations.

[Opinion Owner]

@bobbyxx exactly.

[bobbyxx]

In fact during the Second World War, we invaded all the northern African countries and Middle Eastern countries pretending we were freeing them from the Nazis when in fact we just taking what we wanted from them. And that is were all the terrorists groups come from.

[Opinion Owner]

@bobbyxx also Soviets were like this but i think they didn't create terrorists.

[FallOutBoy2001]

I guess we reap what we sow; however, it's not those who did the sowing that are reaping this shitstorm.

[somebodysaycheese]

In order for their to be terrorist they need to commit genocide of christians and other ethnic groups in the middle east ( which they are doing). Walk around with guns in a city and shoot people, blow up air ports, blow up planes and repeat. Terrorism will never end because we think doing something is not going to war or putting a stop to the ideology from being spread. When we go to to war and we will , we won't win it. They are already bitch smacking us, and they aren't even at their greatest.

[JRICHARDS1996]

What is the point of a letter? Have you ever watched 'Dawn of the Dead'? Terrorists have no humanity left. They will keep on fighting until the dying breath, and the longer wait to deal with them, the worse it will get. They do not need words, they need bullets. They need to exterminated on sight like feral hogs, with nations declaring open season on them.

[Aetumn]

I believe the letter is for the rest of us.

[TwistedLogic]

Someone, somewhere is writing the same thing about Westerners.

[Anonymous]

I remember 9/11 and my dad was sent to Afghanistan.
All I can say is that the terrorist and the soldier both think they are the good guys.
We are the enemy to them. They came here to kill just like the west invaded their lands.
Its an endless war till someone starts an honest conversation instead of constant thoughtless weapon trading and bombing.

[FallOutBoy2001]

Hopefully we start that sooner rather than later

[VomitV]

Gonna have to correct you there - an "honest conversation" is not a solution. All this shit - shit being heavily emphasized here - about "dialogue" and "discussion" with belligerent nations and groups has never worked, and never will. The United Nations was established in the 1940s for that exact purpose, and hundreds of wars have happened worldwide since then.

The reason the war on terror seems endless is because we half-ass every campaign we're involved in. We don't hit terrorists with the full force of our military, holding back for "innocent civilians" who hate us as much as the active terrorists do. They keep regrouping because we let enough of them to live and do so. If you want an end to it, you go through their cities and hit everything that moves with a bullet or rocket.

[Opinion Owner]

@VomitV Ever heard of peaceful protests?
Or do you plan on fighting and fighting till we have a nuclear war?

Of course they hate us! They have seen US and British flags destroy their community. To them it was their life, the children grow into adults with no parents.
I dislike Nations corrupted by religion, but nobody here is saying to hold back because of innocent civilians. We are saying let nobody be killed.
I am sure you know who is supplying the rebels.. that then become extremist groups with Western weapons right? Or do you expect villages to harbor secret weapon factories lol

[VomitV]

Peaceful protests don't accomplish jack shit when ISIS wants a genocide on the rest of the world.

And you actually think nobody is going to be killed with your course of action? A lot of fucking people will die, only they won't be terrorists, they'll be Westerners, as we see frequently in the news.

As for supplying them, ISIS may have taken some American supplies in areas they capture, but we don't directly funnel them equipment. They also get them from defeating incompetent local resistance fighters that we support, but that's a different story.

I don't give a flying fuck if Arabs "don't like" America because some of them died when we were deposing dictators over there. As I said, the reason these groups keep popping up is because we didn't kill ENOUGH of them, not too many.

[Opinion Owner]

@vomitv You get your information from mainstream media... Go figure!
The word terrorist is overused. Its a war, what do you expect? People not to fight for what they believe in?
More Iraqi, Afghan and all in the crossfire died than western civilians. A death is a tragedy no matter who they are.
I'd like to know what you would do if you were born in that part of the world?
Seeing how you are so militant about the matter- I am pretty sure you would be part of ISIS.

[VomitV]

Anyone who uses terms like "mainstream media" outs themselves as a tin-foil hat wearer who is dumb enough to believe that all the upper echelons of our culture are linked through some Illuminati-esque

[VomitV]

influence, or else a pantywaist who gets their information from laughably inaccurate sources like Vox or Salon.

The word terrorist is very accurate in this context - they deliberately attack soft civilian targets in an attempt to cause fear and paranoia, and they'll only get more audacious if they're allowed to build their forces. That's a lot different from accidentally hitting a few Arabs with stray rockets or drone strikes. If I were in the Middle East, I wouldn't pick a side - I'd get the hell out of there.

I wish we'd go back to WW2-era policy when it came to aiding the enemy, because you can bet you would have your ass in court for treason. You clearly care more about the Muslim wretches hiding in a cave somewhere and waiting for their turn to strap on a bomb than you do for the soldiers of civilized nations trying to root them out.

[Opinion Owner]

@vomitV
It doesn't take a GENIUS to know the media has an agenda and won't report information that will go against that. Watch Fox news for fucks sake. They literally make up lies and you can research the accounts through very reliable sources.

I get my information independently not from one stream. Its not hard with a bit of effort.

They kill civilians to kill the enemy and send a message. Not to cause paranoia.
Paranoia is something created in people's heads. An outsider can't literally give you paranoia.

They do not 'accidentally' kill a few Arabs. They bomb schools and hospitals to cut resources and kill children on purpose. Thats war.

[VomitV]

I don't watch trash like Fox, so there you go.

I would say that, if we're not going by the strictest clinical definition, terrorism is absolutely causing a paranoid state. No one knows when or where the next shooting or bombing will be, and that has an effect on people. "Sending a message" by committing terrorist acts is complete bullshit. You send a message by slamming a door, not by shooting up a nightclub.

As for America's supposed atrocities, I'm assuming you're referring to the Doctors Without Borders hospitals that got bombed last year, and that WAS unintentional. It's not easy to distinguish targets sometimes, and American planes and helos occasionally attack their own infantry if they don't have the proper signals set up. With the way kills have to be accounted for today, there's not much room for "atrocities". For the umpteenth time, that's why terrorist groups keep popping up - we don't follow a scorched-earth strategy the first time.

[VomitV]

I'd love to see the military turned loose in full capacity through ISIS held territories, because then we might get the kind of bloodbath that will adequately teach them what the consequences of terror attacks are. But thanks to bleeding hearts like you who will happily keep taking it up the ass from belligerent groups, they're allowed to peddle their sob stories and keep killing because there's minimal resistance.

[FallOutBoy2001]

@VomitV I honestly would like to join the military to kill as many ISIS members as I can

[VomitV]

Good for you, then. I would advise against going infantry unless that's really what you're really dead set on doing, though. Better to pick a speciality that will give you some valuable experience after you're done with the military.

[Riggers]

Terrorists will be terrorists regardless of if you fear them or not.

[Anonymous]

You don't really speak for the 1.8 billion though do you. Also a lot of what you have said is identical to what the husband of one of the Bataclan Theatre victims wrote. In fact it started exactly the same. Plus these terrorists aren't going to listen to you are they. They won't even know this letter exists. And the IRA were fighting for independence which they got.

[FallOutBoy2001]

Well I guess it just shows that other people are thinkin what I'm thinking. And I don't really know if I want to explain that the letter was not supposed to be read by them but by other people.

By the way, the PIRA/IRA were fighting for independence, but they used terror tactics

[Opinion Owner]

I don't blame them.

[FallOutBoy2001]

I have to see this from the perspective of my Grandpa, who basically said "they were fighting for what was right the wrong way"

[ThatBritishLad]

das a bit cringy
"Let's show how terrorism doesn't effect us by doing all this stuff that clearly shows that it effects us."

[FallOutBoy2001]

Mind if I ask, are you British?

[Anonymous]

Our generation isn't gonna do shit. Except for a few of us, we are a bunch of liberal entitled pacifists. We're too afraid to offend people well just end up apologizing to ISIS. Damn it makes me sad what's happened to America.

[dudeman]

why do you think trump is going to win? its because our generation is stopping this shit that our parents and grandparents let happen. fuck you hippies you shit over.

[FallOutBoy2001]

@dudeman no, it's because we're backwards idiots with no education

[Unit1]

The terrorists won't read that. Why bother I ask?

Basically you said you're no more afraid of terrorism, yet try to spread a different kind of fear to THEM.

Hypocrisy much?

[anonman32]

you know that terrorists dont consider themselves terrorists do you?

[orphan]

did you email that to isis?

[rgb008]

Lmfao 😂

[Other_Tommy_Wiseau]

💀💀💀💀

[ModernDayCrusader]

Who is the faceless 1.8billion?

[FallOutBoy2001]

The 1.8 billion teenagers who aren't well known or famous enough. We're a faceless mass

[ModernDayCrusader]

lmao! thats hilarious
mine as well include the other 5 billion+ faceless people on earth who aren't well known or famous.

[FallOutBoy2001]

I chose 1.8 billion because that's my generation, the one who's had to grow up with this. The other 5 billion are all older than me and have a different view

[Mustang1919]

Terrorism is run by the cia