Poll:Update What is the proper response to terrorism?(new question)

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Edit:New question. What should be done about Iran? I think most of us agree that Iran having nuclear capabilities is a bad thing, and with iran currently enriching uranium and expanding that process what should be done? International efforts have done nil so would Israel be right in striking the facility? After all the iranian prez(equivalent) is a nut job that has called for the destruction of Israel.


In light of the recent terror attack in India, what is the proper response to said attack? Would you undertake military ops, is sanctions enough? Do you ignore it and hope it doesn't happen again?

If your country got shot up tomorrow by terrorist what would you want done?

Personally I think massive airstrikes to wipe any harboring countries military out and sanctions.
None of this give them democracy crap. Just make it too painful for future attacks to be put in action.

The whole well the world "condemns" terrorism ideal is not working, what actions can prevent/slow attacks?
 

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Airstrikes do nothing except antagonize the local populations and create more willing terrorists, so unless you are advocating genocide against areas where terrorists are then it isn't going to work.

To deal with terrorism you have to actually try to deal with it, as happened after WW2 with Japan and Germany. When the allied nations went in, and helped them rebuild. They didn't sanction them into starvation, then bomb them into the stone age, then sell off the rights to rebuild to the highest bidder so that the people living there didn't even have food or fresh water two years after "mission accomplished".
 

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For a start you just can't just bomb a country to the ground, that's how to breed terrorism. The best solution is something that doesn't give a terrorist organisation publicity or strengthens their cause in anyway. Therefore my solution would to do small scale operations with as few civilian causalities as possible and sanctions for countries that harbour terrorist. This may seem weak, but this way they have little idealogical reasoning for attacks and won't gain wider support.
 

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the best thing to do in my opinion (i have to put that) about terror, is for one don't look em in the face and say bring it on, cuz they just might. And second keep a close eye on them and do something about it in small strides not in a big horde.
 

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Send in Gaz, Captain Price, and the rest of the squad. Terrorism will be over like that *snaps fingers*.
 

Erana

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Mourn the losses quietly, and hold a gun to the world media, telling it that all it can do is to give factual history lessons about the locations of the terrorism.

Win-win situation. (Except for the deaths and destruction. That's always FAIL.)
 

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Kukul said:
The best solution to terrorism is producing electric cars and letting those motherfuckers starve.
Not all Terrorists are in the Middle East and Southern Asia...
 

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Kukul said:
The best solution to terrorism is producing electric cars and letting those motherfuckers starve.
Then one could argue that with their reduced economy they would be more likely to resort to violence (desperate times bring about desperate measures) IE the evil western countries destroyed our econ.

Just playing devils advocate.
Erana said:
Not all Terrorists are in the Middle East and Southern Asia...
Yeah all them damn canadian with their toxic maple syrup bombs.. or worse Icelanders that attack school buses with icepicks. Sorry just being facetious

Your post is true but majority is based in the middle east(including africa) and asia.
 

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Kukul said:
The best solution to terrorism is producing electric cars and letting those motherfuckers starve.
Yep. This solution is obviously fool-proof as the long suffering and starving people of Afghanistan have obviously never engaged on any terrorist acts have they?
 

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cuddly_tomato said:
To deal with terrorism you have to actually try to deal with it, as happened after WW2 with Japan and Germany. When the allied nations went in, and helped them rebuild. They didn't sanction them into starvation, then bomb them into the stone age
You're right. They firebombed (and nuked) them into the stone age and THEN came and helped them rebuild.

I say shut the fucking media up first of all, then do covert military ops to kill anyone involved after bringing them in and interrogating.
 

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Trace their families, erase them.
Trace their backers, erase them too.

For those of us not called Joseph (or Ioseph if you want to be picky). The best action is to just ignore them as far as possible. Occasionally things happen that can't be ignored, but almost always it's innocent people that suffer most from the retaliations.
 

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Outlaw islam and deny access to your country by islamic citizens.. simple and effective :)
 

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cuddly_tomato said:
To deal with terrorism you have to actually try to deal with it, as happened after WW2 with Japan and Germany. When the allied nations went in, and helped them rebuild. They didn't sanction them into starvation, then bomb them into the stone age
You're right. They firebombed (and nuked) them into the stone age and THEN came and helped them rebuild.

I say shut the fucking media up first of all, then do covert military ops to kill anyone involved after bringing them in and interrogating.
*sighs*

We tried that. For years Britain fought the IRA. Used SAS to assassinate and used the military to try to control the population. All it did was create more terrorism and more lives were lost.

Now the IRA is disarming. You know why? Because we all started talking. When people are talking they are not killing. That is a start. And when talking people will understand the needs of each other better, and maybe even find that the other guy really isn't so different.

Ohh and a free media is an essential function of democracy. If you advocate shutting them up you are advocating installing a military junta in power and doing away with freedom.
 

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The best thing you can do is... well, there's no best response folks. Let's face it, terrorism is a horrible thing, and anything you do will help the terrorists. If you turn the other cheek, they'll blow that one up too. If you fight back, they'll swell in number from the civilians you harm. The fact is, there's no way other than eradication that wil STOP terrorism, but that would make you no better than what they are attacking you for.
 

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Dele said:
Outlaw islam and deny access to your country by islamic citizens.. simple and effective :)
Ha your going to get banned for this I forsee. Though I can sorta agree with you, not being racist or whatever but most acts are done by Islamic terror(granted there are smaller organizations out there ELF being one of them :)
 

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Well I don't think Nukes are the answer, there is far too much bad that comes from the use of nukes especially when you consider the country you are nuking could have them as well. Generally you should try to negotiate and war should be a last resort but stay away from nukes. In this case a Majority of people in India are not terrorists anyway.
 

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Dele said:
Outlaw islam and deny access to your country by islamic citizens.. simple and effective :)
Not all terrorism is linked to Islam and not all Islam is linked to terrorism. Is that too hard to remember?