Ok nations the American military have a presence in - Germany, Panama, Saudi Arabia, Pacific, Indian and Arctic oceans including the Arabian Gulf, Iceland, Italy, Spain, Japan, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Turkey, Korea, Hungary, Great Britain and Ireland those are only some i have knowledge of. I am also assuming because these are military bases that the countries involved are allies.
Then there are the countries America are currently warring with or still have an unwelcome presence in - Iraq, Kosovo, Afghanistan, etc, etc.
Then there are the countries who have access to American television (propoganda), American Literature (more propoganda), American corporations/businesses, music, etc, etc, etfc......
You may not see it because you are from America but every country in the world is being affected by Americanisation. Our kids are wearing the clothes they see American kids wearing [skaters, goths, punks, whatever], somehow they are managing to sound more American with choice words that keep appearing in every conversation, they want the music and God knows what else. Being from Scotland this is kind of annoying because i am one of those people who would like to drive the Englishness out of our country and return it to its natural state. Where the majority where Gaelic talkers, we had our own identity and language, our own military, government, etc. How can we ever acheive this if the world is being Americanized [note the z and not an s]?
I personally have nothing against Americans unless they have an attitude problem but terrorism towards America will only stop when they stop forcing themselves into arguments between countries half the world away, forcing their propoganda down our throats, threatening smaller countries (Korea, Iran, Iraq, etc), refusing to comply with agreements on nuclear decommissioning, climate change and whatever else, ignoring the views of other countries when they storm off to war, making the countries who do not agree with them seem wrong for doing so. France and Germany were right to tell the Americans to fuck off, if i was running England i would have too.
If your government wants to invade a country and show the world how HUGE and Powerful it is by killing loads of innocent people with its "shock and awe" campaigns then next time, let it go itself. I hate the fact that my Scottish brother and Cousin are both in the "British" army because every time America wants to spread its tail feathers. It is their lives that end up being at risk too. The British Army may aswell just become a regiment or battalion of the American Army.
Seriously, do some rsearch into why terrorist organisations come into being and you will see that most of them were formed last century due to countries being ripped apart by war. Before them there were others. It doesn't end because taking Scotland again for example. It was in the 12th and 13th century we had most of our trouble with England, then after our 'terrorists' defeated the English we had freedom until our King became King of England and decided it would be a good idea to join the countries together as one, some Scottish people thought it was a good idea and many of them (mostly Highlanders) thought it was ridiculous so they fought back and were crushed by scottish and english soldiers. Then to make matters worse (this is all happening in the 18th century now ok) the scottish and english soldiers, lords, clan cheifs, etc started ethnically cleansing the Highlands, taking Land from people only to fill it with deer and ship, murdering as many men, women and children who would not be moved, shipping thousands of us off to America and Canada and for those of us who managed to stay we were forced to change our language to English, stop wearing kilts, playing pipes, etc. So everything we were was taken away from us. People continued trying to fight but we had no army anymore so the small groups who did get together and try were quickly removed. People gave up because there was nowhere near enough support, half of the country wanted the unity with the English and the other half didn't. Scotland has it's terrorist groups but they are not very active. They also have peaceful means of pursuing independence from the English which has been working for a couple of years now. We have the Gaelic language bill which allows us all the opportunity to learn Gaelic as a first language from pre school onwards, we also have our own powers in our own devolved parliament.
Look at the I.R.A. For years all of the terrorism focus in Northern Ireland was on them but in reality they killed less civilians during their campaign against the English than the loyalist U.V.F or the U.D.A. I know it was only this year that the I.R.A decided to disband and decomission but it has been done. They are no longer a terrorist organisation but they have vowed to continue the fight until the English give Northern Ireland back to the Irish.
My point is, no matter how long ago something happened history is always there and people are always fighting for what is right. England had no right to take four seperate countries and make them one, nor did it have the right to take control of half the world. It did and no one will ever give in until the wrongs have been put right. I tell my children all the time that Scotland should be free and even though i'm not about to run off and kill some English politician or civilian i will fight for as long as i am alive by letting people know we are a country of our own, i will spread the word about our language to keep it alive and anything else it takes [voting for the Nationalists, supporting our economy, etc]
I only feel for these groups because i know they feel the same way.The difference is they are here and now. Most of the problems they face are the same problems Scotland faced in the 14th and 18th centuries. I don't feel as strongly as they do because i obviously was not born then but they were and they see their countries being invaded, divided, destroyed by outsiders, foreigners, infidels, whatever you want.
Now i am not making it right for them to blow up a bus full of people or kill a school full of children - these acts are sickening and i will never support that but terrorism can be said to be justified due to the fact that the men or women fighting in such a way are doing so out of desperation, love and hate.
The only way these organisations can work is if they stop the root of their problem. In the case of Al Quaeda it seems that they think America is the problem. I do know that in the 80's when America hated Russia they helped Al Quaeda fight alongside the Chechens by offering money and weapons to fight with. So who really sponsored this group. America itself gave Al Quaeda the means to terrorise a country and now it is screaming about other countries offering that same support. Is there one rule for the Americans and another for the rest of the world or what?
Al Quaeda never liked the fact that American bases were situated throughout the Arab world especially during the early 90's when Iraq invaded Kuwait. Not because the Arabs have some big secret they want to hide but because Americans are alien to them and it doesn't help that they are in their countries with bombs, planes, helicopters, tanks, guns, etc. Would you not see that as threatening if a few thousand Arabs parked in your back garden with all of those weapons?????? I think so, i know i would feel threatened by it.
So what do these terrorists do. They at first give America a warning. Please leave our countries or we will direct all of our attention on you. America laughs at them and stays where it is. Bombing Iraq for most of a decade and it doesn't help that the Americans also planted a mini America right in the middle of the Arab world (yes i am talking about Israel)during the 60's. So after a few attempts at deterring the Americans with a few attacks throughout the 90's. Al Quaeda decides - well it is a big country so we need a big plan. In 2001 they carry that plan out and look what happens, America still doesn't pay attention and starts throwing its weight around. It threatens to fuck up any country who helps terrorism or who does not stand along side america. Then the troops are thrown into Afghanistan to find the bearded man which they do not find at all and after getting very impatient George Bush decides to finish off Saddam Hussein. I mean why not - One Arab is as good as the next right.
Who will be next, Iran, Korea, who? I don't like the weight America has to throw around. Look at what happened in Nagasaki and Hiroshima. That was terrorism. What did all of those Japanese people do? America got frustrated because there country had been attacked so they used all they could to destroy the attacker as the 'terrorists' are now doing.
Think about it all very carefully. Include the fact that your free America is only free through acts of terror. They killed thousands of English soldiers in order to have a country of their own. Your country was made up of English, Scottish, Irish, French, Spanish and Portugeuse. Your country has no true identity other than the American Indians who were fucked aside by the invaders. Then left to die out by the new world order. You only know it as it is now and it means nothing to you because you are just American. All of the terrorists on the other hand have true identities that are being taken from them. Imagine if in 60-100 years the French language had died out, everything French was gone and it was a thing of the past. You might not think so but i'm sure French people or descendants of French people would think it was shit craic.
Anyway i have truly made my point now. I have nothing more to say about it. I think they are pushed into doing what they do and until any oppressing country realises this, terrorism will go on and on and on and on.
