Understanding terrorism

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

removing the threat presented us by bigots and religious fanatics --

That is not what we are doing in Iraq. Hussein was a tinpot dictator, but he was a secular one. He tortured people for purely personal and/or political reasons. The bigots and religious fanatics are the ones who are now preparing to write sharia law into the Iraqi Constitution.

Nondemocratic social orders are prone to wars, wars by proxy (terrorist movements, deniable with varying plausibility by the ruling circles) and extremism.

Why, that's what the US has been doing for decades! Good point. We do need to work on improving our democracy.