I believe that a terrorist is anyone who kills a person in whatever context. I can’t see why an army designed to kill people (they have guns) can save people from another ’army’. Does it really matter if people die for peace or revenge? The result is still the loss of human lives! 

I ask the same question each time I go through security at the airport.  Where are the terrorists?

AT the start of my last cross country airplane trip, I remembered to remove my shoes, get the bag of liquids out of my purse, put everything including my coat in a plastic container while at the same time having a rather tall man breath down my neck because I was so SLOW!……..In my rush, I forgot I had a bottle of water in my purse and, too, I am used to having signs that remind me that I have a bottle of water in my purse.  But this time no signs to remind me.  It was the end of the world….the bottle of water.  I had to go through security screening again.  What is a 62 year old woman with a heart condition who only travels once a year to do?  

They asked me what I wanted to do with the water bottle.  I said throw it away.  And then I paid $2.20 to replace the small bottle of water that cost me only $.90 on the "outside".   I am feeling rather terrorized by the bottle water suppliers at the airports.

This documentary on PBS tonight is powerful, here is a clip 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamaswar/

There will always be terrorist cells somewhere. They will continue to survive as long as rogue countries permit them safe havens.  What can we do? Keep our options open and as quickly as possible, GET OUT OF THERE!!!!

Mary B

From an amateur viewpoint,  I believe that Al Queda and the Taliban as they exist must be stopped and destroyed as long as they continue to practice violence which results in the death of innocent people.  It is unfortunate that U.S. policies in the past actually led to the Taliban, since we financed and supplied arms to both Iraq in their war with Iran, and to Afghanistan when the Soviet Union invaded them.   What we must also do is encourage and support education of children in these countries, a la Gregory Mortensen, and cut off financing and support of any nation that continues to harbor and support terrorists. 

As far as domestic terrorists, we should use the same vigour and determination to stop them as well.  And I refer to terrorists as those whose goal is to kill innocent people for a political purpose or are ignorant ‘weapons’ of organized terrorist organizations.  I don’t consider the efforts of organizations like Greenpeace or other organizations who are fighting against the rape of the Earth as terrorists, and it would be unconscienable for any American leader to broaden the meaning of ‘fighting terrorism’ to those environmentalists who are dissenting from a destructive way of life without harming people, as opposed to terrorists who kill people needlessly and senselessly.