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2004-12-19 Afghanistan/South Asia

Pakistan urges world to address root causes of terrorism

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Posted by Fred 2004-12-19 12:42:47 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Fred, stetsons wear nicely with the Texas two-step.

Posted by Capt America 2004-12-19 12:52:40 AM|| 2004-12-19 12:52:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Start in your local mosque, buddy... you'll find all the roots sitting right there.

Posted by True German Ally 2004-12-19 12:54:35 AM|| 2004-12-19 12:54:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 You're right. The Stetson should be it. Guys who wear fedoras sometimes carry violin cases and answer to "Muggsy." You never see guys in Stetsons exploding.

Now I have to go to bed with the image of a Bugti in my mind, wearing a black Stetson and hollering "Draw varmint!" as he goes for his RPG.

Posted by Fred 2004-12-19 12:59:52 AM|| 2004-12-19 12:59:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Here it comes: poverty. That will be the rallying cry. Note well who calls for such shit - for they are the real enemy and apologists for fucked up societies, corruption, and thugocracies. They'd love for the world's rich nations, who earned their standard of living by working hard for it and demanding much of their citizens, to put a pile of money into a big pot. And guess who would control it, play Rich Uncle, and loot the sucker. Some I know better than you because I'm morally superior group of twitters - full of the latest tranzi bullshit. I don't have an example in mind, of course...

Poverty is not the cause of terrorism. This has been endlessly researched and demonstrated to be dead wrong numerous times. Red herring scam. Piss off.

Posted by .com 2004-12-19 1:00:26 AM|| 2004-12-19 1:00:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 âWe must include ways to address the larger, systemic and structural issues including the reform of the unequal international economic systemâ.

This is an important point. So long as many of the third world countries keep propping up corrupt and non-transparent governments, the grinding poverty they create will continue to encourage terrorist activity.

While I'm sure this is not the point that Munir Akram was trying to make, he and all of his entrenched cronies can all take a flying leap if they think that civilized countries will tear themselves down to institute some sort of economic parity for all.

Scum bag looting dictators and theocrats must be put on notice that their constant raping of national assets gets them DEAD.

We need to pre-empt the terrorists in this matter. The capitalistic west has to demonstrate how vital it is for these tin pot gangsters not to be pissing in the international punch bowl. If parasites like Mugabe or Assad want to suck the lifeblood out of their countries, they need to be stopped DEAD, before they breed up yet another al Qaeda.

Posted by Zenster 2004-12-19 2:14:15 AM|| 2004-12-19 2:14:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 While I'm sure this is not the point that Munir Akram was trying to make, he and all of his entrenched cronies can all take a flying leap if they think that civilized countries will tear themselves down to institute some sort of economic parity for all
He's calling for more re-distribution of wealth-kaching, more bribe $ from the West. Btw, we should all keep our eye on the latest UN bright light idea for getting their hands into our wallets - the control and taxation of the Internet.

So long as many of the third world countries keep propping up corrupt and non-transparent governments, the grinding poverty they create will continue to encourage terrorist activity
Corrupt dictators in third world countires are propped up by the West - it's called foreign aid with no strings attached.

The capitalistic west has to demonstrate how vital it is for these tin pot gangsters not to be pissing in the international punch bowl.
How?

Posted by joeblow 2004-12-19 8:03:00 AM|| 2004-12-19 8:03:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Root causes of terrorisms: (i) Islam, (ii) Assymetric warfare. When (ii) is cured, so will (i).

Posted by gromgorru 2004-12-19 8:15:27 AM|| 2004-12-19 8:15:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 "address the root causes" one of those ideals, like manifest destiny, that sounded good in the one Century and fool hardy in the next.

"Address the root causes" - a 20th century cop out to justify/enable bad behavior.

Posted by 2b 2004-12-19 8:18:29 AM|| 2004-12-19 8:18:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Yes, let's do address the root causes. We'll start by purging with extreme prejudice the ISI in Pakland.

Posted by Mark Z. 2004-12-19 2:34:03 PM|| 2004-12-19 2:34:03 PM|| Front Page Top

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