{"id":1507411,"date":"2024-02-19T15:35:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T15:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/?p=148171"},"modified":"2024-02-19T15:35:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T15:35:11","slug":"wars-on-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/02\/19\/wars-on-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Wars on Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"
Domestic and international terrorism have caused havoc in several nations. Each nation exhibits a unique approach to combatting terrorism; each nation exhibits a unique outcome from its approach. Examining types, causes, approaches, and outcomes of wars on terrorism in four nations \u2014 United States, Israel, China, and Russia \u2014 discloses successful strategies, self-destructive strategies, and strategies that deceive the public and terrorize others with impunity. The words \u201cterrorist\u201d and \u201cterrorism\u201d are not always allied; terrorist actions are not always due to terrorists.<\/p>\n
Depending on perspective, the word \u201cterrorism\u201d \u2500 the unlawful use of violence or threats to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or government \u2500 can be falsely labeled and falsely applied. Those who exhaust peaceful protests against oppression and provocation lash out at their oppressor and inflict damage on the civilian population that keeps the oppressor in power. Not understanding the origins of terrorism and the reasons it is committed have unfavorably skewed the responses and led to more terrorism.<\/p>\n
United States<\/strong><\/p>\n United States administrations exhibited a strange method for repelling terrorists \u2014 let them enter an area, establish themselves, become strong, and commit atrocities, and then attack them — the spider approach. Muhammad Atta and his eighteen partners freely entered the United States, studied how to go up and not come down, and did their dirty deeds.<\/p>\n After facing several terrorist situations during the 1990s, the September 11, 2001 bombings compelled the United States government to wage a War on Terrorism. The U.S. government used one strategy to respond to terrorism \u2500 brute force.<\/p>\n Twenty-three years after the 9\/11 attack the U.S. breathes easier, no terrorism on its mainland, and the major terrorist organizations \u2014 al Qaeda and ISIS \u2014 decimated. From appearances, the U.S. applied an effective counter-terrorism strategy and contained terrorism. Not quite. U.S. strategy expanded terrorism and moved terrorism into parts of Africa. The reduction in terrorism came mainly from the efforts of other nations.<\/p>\n By blending its battles against terrorism with preservation of American global interests, the U.S. initially expanded terrorism. The battles to overcome terrorism evolved into conflagrations in Afghanistan and Iraq; the former beginning and ending with undefined meaning and the latter having no relation to terrorism.<\/p>\n U.S. assistance to Pakistan intelligence during the Soviet\/Afghan war indirectly supplied weapons to Osama bin Laden, financed his activities<\/a>, and helped create the al-Qaeda network.<\/p>\n U.S. manufacture of terrorists continued during Clinton\u2019s administration. Battles between U.S. and Somali forces weakened Somali leadership. From an imposed anarchy in Somalia, al-Shabaab eventually emerged. In 2023, the militant group continues its violent insurgency in Somalia.<\/p>\n The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan succeeded in moving bin Laden from a grim and arduous perch in a rugged and isolated mountain to a comfortable villa in Pakistan, from where he was eventually captured and killed. Other than that accomplishment, the 20-year incursion into Taliban territory accomplished nothing positive \u2014 the Taliban returned to power and, thanks to the U.S. counter-terrorism strategy, other terrorist groups operate within its boundaries<\/a>. In August 2022, the U.S. government located al-Qaeda leader Aimen al-Zawahiri residing in Kabul and killed him in a drone strike.<\/p>\n By invading and occupying Iraq, the U.S. extended the battle against terrorism rather than confining it. Except for Ansar al-Islam, a northern radical Islamic group close to the Iran border, Saddam Hussein’s Iraq contained no Al-Qaeda affiliated elements. After the U.S. invasion destroyed the Iraqi armed forces and policing functions, Al Qaeda members moved into Iraq from Pakistan and formed ‘Al-Qaeda in Iraq\u2019 (AQI ).<\/p>\n AQI was responsible for its downfall. Sunni tribes revolted at al-Qaeda\u2019s indiscriminate violence and the \u201cIraqi surge,\u201d with assistance from U.S. troops, inflicted heavy losses on the al-Qaeda organization. Stability returned to Iraq until the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), under the leadership of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, emerged from the remnants of AQI, and took advantage of growing resistance to U.S. troops in Iraq and discontent with Bashar al-Assad\u2019s Syria. Baghdadi formed a force that captured about a third of Syria and 40 percent of Iraq, including the cities of Raqqa and Mosul.<\/p>\n Islamic State of Iraq and Syria<\/strong><\/p>\n