Terrorism: Worldwide

Terrorism: Worldwide

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  • Date Submitted: 12/01/2013 6:15 PM
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Sile Akintunde
Mr. Cooper

Terrorism: Worldwide

Terrorism is the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political or religious motives no matter the cost. This is issue has become top priority worldwide. Nations must now fortify their walls from terrorist aggression. Terrorists main weapons of mass destruction are unrivaled hate, desperation, coercion, and fire arms. There is a war alive right now, fought with martyrs and animosity. The victims of this war are innocent bystanders whose lives are cut short like trees felled by the fatal ax.
All this wasted hate divides humanity as a whole. Terrorism has been defined as the sub-state application of violence or threatened violence intended to sow panic in a society, to weaken or even overthrow the incumbents, and to bring about political change(Global Extremism and Terrorism ). We as a people cannot battle one another just like the Sumerians of Mesopotamia. Their culture and society collapsed and was taken over by a foreign nation. Is this our fate? No we have the power to change this timeline.“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is process. Working together is success.” Henry Ford once said. If humanity were to collaborate, harmony could be attained. Cancer, global warming, and economic collapse could become things of the past. Unfortunately so called humanity is too busy attacking one another to confront these issues. But there is hope, solutions are out there present but hidden. This issue is a problem that threatens the equilibrium of the globe. Any tilting of the scale causes an unbalance that may lead to global collapse. Terrorism often leads to the proliferation's of weapons of mass destruction. The endpoint if this issue is not snuffed out, is world wide death and chaos. The victims by the year 1985 counted 816 people, in 2001 the number of deaths rose to 3,295 because of the attacks on the 11th of September, 2001. More than 1,000 people died because of acts of terror in...

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