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Star
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Star asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago

How long have terrorist been around for? Why do you think people started to think that killing is a way?

to solve problems? Why are we not taught the history of the middle east in high school. I only ask because for the most part when I was in high school we were taught the history of Germany and world war 2. And American history. I KNOW The Holocaust was horrible, I am just curious to know why we weren't taught about the history of terrorist or some other interesting facts about world history. I don't even know the history of terrorist. It didn't seem like that many people even knew about terrorism before 9-11.

Now I am NOT sating that terroism is right at all, but do you think that maybe people started getting violent because they saw people in their own country getting treated bad and had to act out. But then they just got out of control? The movie Paradise now was a really good movie, I do recomend it

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    this will answer your question

  • 1 decade ago

    Terrorism has been around for almost as long as the history of civilization. One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter is a famous saying. The patriots of the Boston Tea Party could have been considered terrorist today by the British. So would have the minute men. America has backed hundreds of terrorists when it was beneficial to our business interests. Remember we created OSAMA!!!!!!

  • molly
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    The first terrorists were the Irish Republican army (IRA) I know they are not Muslims but they were still terrorists who some people in America supported namely the Kennedy's.Watch the movie Micheal Collins and you will see the beginning of terrorism

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    National Strategy for Combating Terrorism

    "We're engaged in a global struggle against the followers of a murderous ideology that despises freedom and crushes all dissent, and has territorial ambitions and pursues totalitarian aims. … And against such an enemy there is only one effective response: We will never back down, we will never give in and we will never accept anything less than complete victory. … We will defeat the terrorists and their hateful ideology by spreading the hope of freedom across the world. … The security of our nation depends on the advance of liberty in other nations."

    President George W. Bush

    July 4, 2006

    Source(s): What's the difference kid, President Bush has outlined the solution. Bill USMC USAF Combat Rescue
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  • 1 decade ago

    Terrorists justify their actions through this type of thought process. You can excuse your actions by making yourself a savior, like Osama Bin Ladin.

    The Muslim extremist do not commit horrible crimes for their people, but instead to try to bend others to their will.

    They do not like Western civilization so they kill in an attempt to make us conform to the corrupt intellect of the Koran and their antiquated society. They would have all women covering their faces, homosexuals beheaded and warped Islamic law held up as the law of the land.

  • 1 decade ago

    Terrorism has be going since the beginning of humanity. It can be as simple as harassing a spouse to get your way to wondering if the plane over your head has a missile with your name on it. terrorism in may shape and forms have been use to win conflicts and or gain profit.

  • 1 decade ago

    Terrorism exists because terrorists see that it works. It gets them concessions. They have probably been around as long as mankind. In recent years, they seem to be getting more brutal.

    People don't turn to terror out of desperation, they turn to terror in hope.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The current brand of suicide bombing in the name of Islam came from Iran a few decades ago. Also, there were kamikaze pilots in the Japanese air force.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    day one

  • cork
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    since cain killed abel yes...........

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