what points should i consider in order to debate about terrorism?
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Depends what your argument is. and what exactly the debate is about. Good to know your oppositions points ahead of time though. Does one side want to say terrorism is good.\n\nSome say that a terrorist is just a freedom fighter, the difference is that terrorist kill innocent civillians in order to scare or terrorize the general population. Freedom fighters fight guirilla warz against the military and police.\n\nTerrorists (usually) have no unified flag and are just disgruntled individuals working on their own. It is said that there are larger groups that are working together. Your Al Qaida, kkk, skin heads, \n\nWhy do terrorists terrorize, even if not valid reasons what is their excuse. Are they oppressed, what?\n\nWhat is the govt. doing about it, at home and abroad?\n\nIs it as big a threat as some people make it seem?
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I don't want to speculate and here is why:  I have had discussions among close friends about potential targets and vulnerabilities, some of which really concern me.  Since this is the internet and we know there are anti-american elements here and likely links to terrorist groups right within this forum I wouldn't want to give them any ideas.  There are some things about which one should remain silent.
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It's generally a good idea.  You can more successfully debate an opponent if you already know what he/she's going to argue.  "Know thy enemy" after all...
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Terrorism is the most critical issue facing our world today. To strengthen and augment our government’s current antiterrorism efforts, we urgently need a more fundamental approach that neutralizes the very basis of terrorism, preventing terrorist attacks before they begin.\n\nAn approach—known as the Invincible Defense Technology—calls for the establishment of a permanent group of 40,000 experts in “technologies of consciousness” to neutralize the acute ethnic and religious tensions that fuel violence and social conflict, effectively disarming terrorism at its basis. This approach is an essential component in any comprehensive approach to combating terrorism.
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Terrorists have a home\nIf there is a war to be fought - let it be there
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Terrorism doesn't threaten our COUNTRY. Only the President's misguided actions in rolling back civil liberties and abandoning our national principles threatens our COUNTRY.\n\nTerrorism threatens individuals and property. \n\nConservatives have totally lost sight of the reality of the situation.
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Peace:  It is completely immoral to kill 10,000+ innocent civilians in Iraq, regardless of whether or not there is a connection to 9/11 (and there isn't).  If a suspected terrorist lived in Texas, would the appropriate action be to bomb Texas?  Completely Illogical!\n\nThe idea of "preemptive strike" is also ridiculous.  If I believe that I may be beaten by a racist police officer, should I have the right to shoot him first for the sake of safety?  Completely Illogical!\n\nIt is not that the Bush II administration are totally foolish (although they are often painted that way), but they are simply pursuing their own interests, and these interests are at odds with the interests of most people.  What happened to democracy in the US?
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People have given you specific ideas.  The point is to find something controversial.  I find it best if I select something I feel strongly about and then argue from the opposite side of the issue.  I learn more and I have less tendency to allow my emotions to cloud the paper.\n\nGood Luck on your final.
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what kind of question is this? you could start a conflict with this, a war even. Islams are completely misunderstood. Do not judge based on your ignorance. And to answer the guy upstairs, Islam isn't the root of terrorism. Everyone is entitled to be a terrorist.
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Are the effects of terrorism a good thing? did you really think this through?
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You make some very good points - and your question is well thought out and written - but I believe the theory that terrorists can be dealt with successfully using diplomacy, negotiation or reasonable dialog was pretty much discounted when President Carter tried these policies during the Iranian hostage crisis.\n\nBefore reasonable dialog can take place, reasonable people must be involved. We are dealing with Islamic radicals - people who would cut your head off just to make another video. \n\nI do agree that more priority must be placed on training and equipping the Iraqi security forces to try and shorten the time needed to get them in position to take over the peace keeping tasks and routing out the terrorists now performed by American troops.\n\nUltimately, the Iraqi people will either stand up and fight for their freedoms and rights, or all of the humanitarian and military aid we can muster will be in vane - regardless of our strategy in this war.
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what's a terrorist? \n\nyour question scares me. does that make YOU a terrorist.
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The hardest part is always the anticipation... waiting for it to happen.  \nMake sure that you have all your information, that you are ready.. and if possible, act it out with someone you know, say it outloud to yourself... and look at your points, and think of possible oppositions, or counter-arguments to them.  After doing that, think of responses to these counter-arguments.  Make sure you've done the research.\n\nIf you have all of this done, then you should do fine.  Once you actually start your debate, you tend to get into it, so it doesn't seem as scary anymore.  The anticipation is always worse than the actual thing.  This is coming from my own experience.
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Everybody has his right to express opinion. There are critics who say A, there are others who say B. I personally think war is wrong, terror is wrong. War brings more terror. Terror brings more war. Please focus on trying to end both war and terror, blaming one another as the source of problems won't do any good.
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Terrorism is not new.  The weapons and options of the terrorists are more powerful as society advances.\n\nThere is a little known amazing act of terrorism that occurred in Michigasn during May of 1927:\n\nhttp://www.msu.edu/~daggy/tbsd/\n\nSpeaking as a person of broad education (science and humanities, acquired on my own), I think the future will involve better education in ethics and morality and identifying and controlling potential criminals and terrorists.\n\nThere is currently great failure in both these areas.\n\nThere are too many people who are deprived of education and opportunity, but many terrorists are not from these.\n\nA terrorist is mostly a very evil person who does not know how to work for a better world.\n\nWhy don't you explore the motivations of the man involved in the Michigan incident, also a suicide, and see how it matches modern profiles, Timothy McVeigh, others.\n\nThere was a man in Colorado who drove a bulldozer around inflicting millions of dollars of damages, also killed himself.\n\nTerrorists who wish to inflict great damage while killng themselves.  Needs some good analysis.\n\nPlease study this for us.  I am already working on other things, cannot help, sorry.\n\nIt is far from being solely an Islamic fundamentalist problem.
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You don't.  That's the nature of terrorism.  This whole concept of a "war on terrorism" is laughable, because you fight terrorism, but you can't win.  Citizens of a democratic republic such as the USA expect to have too many freedoms, and you can't competently fight terrorism without infringing upon some of those freedoms.\n\nTerrorism and terrorist acts have always been around and always will be.  Anybody remember the Boston Tea Party?  Guess what folks, that was an act of terrorism.
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Real answer: Never.  Terrorism, in one form or another, has been around since the begining of civliization.  There is always going to be a set of people who are not pleased with another set, and then a small subset of them who will go through extraordinary lengths to prove it.