It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Terrorism tramples upon any rights and freedoms and generates fear and hatred; it is an obstacle to efforts at improving our world.
Terrorism has become a festering wound. It is an enemy of humanity.
Terrorism needs to be fought against and certainly delegitimized or attacked, but some of the underlying grievances that might in fact lead individuals astray to terrorism cannot be ignored.
What causes terrorism is disrespect, a lack of justice, and poverty.
Terrorism gets people's attention.
Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.
It is not enough to tackle the mechanics of terror organizations. We must also tackle the situations that create terrorists. We desperately need to address the frustration, the loss and the despair that drive some to these actions.
It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.
The war against terrorism is terrorism.