Terrorism is a by product of occupation

[niceypoo]

Does anybody care to refute this statement?

[panader0]

1. I agree

When the British occupied us, we were the "insurgents". It works the same way everywhere.

[izzie]

2. I think in some ways yes but terrorism was around long before, so

it is more from lack of power of groups of people. Every country seems to have people who do not care who they kill to make a point. We have had them for sure. One was an ex-army guy.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. I agree. There was an article in a conservative-leaning magazine

several months back, written by a research group, that stayed the number one reason for acts of terrorism was a threat to 'home turf'. This group had reviewed every act of terrorism around the world for like 20 years and, indeed, occupation of native terittory was number one. (The article, is unfortunately, on my home computer).


On edit: Found it

The most provocative and widely read study is Robert Pape's book Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism. Pape, a military historian and professor at the University of Chicago, catalogued every terrorist suicide bombing from 1983 to 2003—in all, 315 attacks carried out by 462 bombers. He concludes that, except for a couple of dozen random incidents, these bombings were elements of various coordinated campaigns—involving 18 different organizations over a 20-year period—all of which had in common "a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel democracies to withdraw military forces from the terrorists' national homeland."