Why is it whenever there is a terrorist attack or a war there is a natural diaster.?
437155
It is Mother Nature's way of reminding us not to do stupid things, because no matter how much damage we humans can cause, she can cause a hell of a lot more!
815824
sounds like terrorism to me.   How could you want to declare war on your own country-if you don't like it emigrate!
680730
Most wars have been over land or political ideology.  Religion gets tacked on as an afterthought or an excuse to give the war an air of legitimacy when no other reason exists.  Very few wars have been soley over religion, although I do believe the current war is...whether western nations, ie christian, believe it or not....the islamists do.
646935
Nature has always been erratic. What has changed is our awareness of events farther and farther away from us. The news media always finds that people are more interested in tragedy than peace and quiet. Tragic events from more and more places get reported to us. It just seems like more bad things are happening.
522731
I quite agree!! And it happens so often today - all the wars, suicide bombings, "natural" disasters etc etc.
205378
Terrorism = acts of violence commited against non-combatants (that includes civilians and auxiliary military personnel and any military that's not actively involved in an open armed conflict) with the purpose of harming the psychological balance of the enemy (basically seeding terror within an opponent's ranks).\n\nThe men fighting US and UK in Iraq (and elsewhere where US and UK have troops on soil other than their own) are basically freedom fighters. But when they employ tactics that are ment to seed fear rather than obtain tactical advantages over a declared enemy, that makes them terrorists also.\n\nHowever even here there's a fine line as some freedom fighters commit terrorists acts others don't. The difference is even more obscured by the fact that US declared a war on terror and if such a notion is to be taken seriously (though normally it isn't enough to just say you're at war and actually considered to be at war lawfully) then the attacks against US personnel in Iraq can't be considered terrorist acts, since it's war.\n\nIf another country occupied mine I would fight by any means I see fit. There is only one justified reason for occupation and that is if the occupied country has requested foreign military intervention through recognized representatives that speak for an accepted majority of the country. Sometimes the UN can authorize military intervention on a country's soil if that country has commited repeated acts of aggresion against UN members or the violent conflict within a country threatens the territorial integrity of a UN member. If my country would be at fault for any of these, I would join the occupation force (which wouldn't be called an occupation force anyway).\n\nAs such, the US presence in Iraq isn't justified and is also illegal. The US campaign there was accomplished with the use of lies, deception and acts of terrorism performed by US military (attacks against civilian population, economic embargo even of humanitarian products, the 'oil-for-food' extorsion attempt - some which were conveniently called mistakes, a very unbelievable excuse from the most modern army in the world which also claims high moral principles).\n\nAgain, as such we can identify two types of terrorism: classic terrorism (performed by international organisations such as Al-Qaeda or national such as ETA or IRA that usually employs physical violence: guns, bombs, etc) and neo-terrorism (or state-terrorism - performed by a nation against another, state-endorsed which employs methods of economic coercion, indirect violence against civilian population such a economic embargo, high prices for food and water, etc commonly performed by US, Israel and sometimes China outside of international lawmaking agencies such as UNESCO and UN).\n\n--- to bungiebabe (edit): it will be a challenge to find the source which I copy/pasted simply because it doesn't exist. All answers I give come from my personal experience and research (I am correspondent on Middle East issues for some newspapers in my area, which is why I tend to answer this type of questions) and sometimes I credit Noam Chomsky and Annabel McGoldrick for quotations, but I don't copy paste. My main source is, as always if you've followed my posts, www.un.org and the UN list of General Assembly resolutions and Security Council resolutions.
1110117
Yes they are con's \nevery war can be traced back to some kind of religious zealot\nit is the major cause of world terrorism today\nnot only is it a con trick on the gullible it is very dangerous
99112
Earthquakes, tornados, tsunamis, landslides, floods etc. are natural events not disasters.\n\nDisaster is the situation which the natural event interrupts the social and economic life and assistance from out of the affected area is needed to supply the basic human needs.\n\nEvery natural event is not ended with a disaster.Disaster is not only related to the force of the natural event but also the vulnerability of the affected area to that natural event. Men have no control on natural events but have control to prevent it to be resulted as a disaster.
1093408
Military people aren't weak minded...they are governed and deployed by the weak minded.\n\nWe've no business fighting a "War on Terrorism".  Terrorists are fighting for an ideal and it's an ideological conflict that we're in.  To say we're at war is a misnomer because you can't fight an invisible enemy (an ideal).  Two armies suqaring off is a war...guerillas fighting for a belief against an army or government is a conflict.
273056
A terrorist is a person who intimadates others by means of psycological and/or physical means. They want others afraid of them.\n\nFrom the time man began on this planet there were terrorists. You can see a good example of this in school yard bullies.\n\nI am afraid they are not going away and will be around as long as mankind exists.\n\nTerrorists do not always kill or blow themselves up and you can find plenty of them in all countries of the world and in all societies.
932876
when a nation is at war with it's own people
407177
This object is not the cause - it's merely an attempt at justification.\nDifferent foreign wars have different real causes, but economics is usually present.  These days it's the over-powerful lobbies of Israel, the CIA and the US Military.
193947
There is, actually, a law of war against unnecessarily destroying religious or historic  sites. they are not to be destroyed, unless the enemy is using them to his advantage, such as by hiding in them.  Of coarse, the laws of war are only as good as the people who enforce them.
665558
I've been noticing that every time America hosts an anti-Israeli leader, a natural disaster hits America the same day. The more sin progresses; the more nature groans in response. I'm not surprised that things are progressing downward. As we legalize more sin, nature groans. Sooner or later, you'd think the world would see what's happening, but no....they close their blind eyes & says it's just coincidence.
913099
Bombs are like guns. If you use them somebody gets hurt. The problem is not with the weapon but the people who decide they are going to attack another group because they don't agree with their politics, religion or something else. One attack leads to another and away you go. Pilots are only obeying orders or making a mistake. It is the people giving the orders who are to blame and they don't give a damn because they know they are right or are acting with the full support of their god.
164172
The muslim-extremists declared a war against the United States well before 9/11.  They found a weakness in how we live our lives here in the US and exploited that weakness to attack and kill civilians in what they feel was a justified military attack.  There was no peace prior to these attacks, there was only a period of time BETWEEN similar attacks.  Attacks on the embassies in Africa, the attack on the USS Cole and several other attacks on US interests around the world were not viewed as real attacks to many people because they were not on US soil.
168596
There has never been a war where some unwanted terrible things don't happen.  These things come from both sides in a war.  People get mad and get upset about it, yet it still happens in all wars.  We do have rules that Nations are supposed to follow during times of war with each other and for the most part they are followed.  Today in Iraq we are not fighting against any Army of Iraq, only against those who are fighting in the insurgency and these are Muslim's Killing Muslim's.  Kidnapping non-combatants and holding for ranson, the terroristic threats against people's rights, Shame on you too!