Are Terrorists Just Killers?

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After all these years and after all the efforts of the Alliance, the USA, the Democratically elected government of Iraq, there is still bombings, suicide missions and assassinations?  What do these so-called terrorists want?  A person cannot deal with someone else who just kills and kills but has no specific agenda other than the killing.  Is it time for all of us to recognize that the terrorist is merely a cold-blooded killer who uses the cover of terrorism as an excuse for carnage?  As difficult as it is for Westerners to understand, it seems that these Arab countries are still very tribal and that they are willing to randomly kill a lot of people of the other clan.  They do it simply because the people are of the other clan.  Yes, it may also be because the other people are of a different Islamic sect.  Anyway, we did away with the “horrible” dictator Saddam and unleashed the terror and the horror and the insanity of the groups that he suppressed.  So, although we would like to think that the Islamic Arab nations are like the Christian West, they are not.  The Western culture, politics and social structure is formed by and informed by a 2000 year history of Christianity.  (Yes, Christianity as a religion has its faults but the fact of it being a core formational aspect of Western society cannot be denied.) The Islamic counties are also informed by a long history of Islam.  However, they are still in a tribal period of development and their societies still practice religiously motivated brutal murder and clan warfare without any significant resistance or objection on the part of the Islamic leadership.  In fact, it is a fearful prospect that it is Islam itself that fosters such extremely violent behavior.  So what to do?  This writer opposed the Iraq war and the Afghanistan war because it was the intervention of Western Christian and Western political systems into areas that were thoroughly Islamic and functioned politically in a radically tribal way.  I believed that the injection of twentieth century concepts into a 7th or 8th century culture was not productive and could cause the chaotic violence which we have witnessed.  So, what to do?  The USA should continue to use it moral, cultural, religious, and political influence in these areas in a peaceful way.  We should not resort to regime chance, political assassination of leaders such as Hussein and Gaddafi, nor should we foment political upheaval through the CIA.  All of these methods are not effective and the evidence of these past years seems to vindicate that our interference in the region is counter productive.  The violence that follows the dictators that we remove is equal to if not greater than the dictator!