Terrorism a thing of the past or of the time?
It could easily be argued that terrorism today is in part the result of the Internet coupled with its ability to instantaneously mass communicate.
I’m believe it’s with us to stay and there’s little we can do to eradicate it. We can only hope to contain it through different modes of counter terrorism, advanced technology and plain old law good enforcement techniques.
As a strict advocate of constitutional rights we have a strict balancing act here to perform. I would call it the need to know versus the right to know or what constitutionalist call narrowly tailoring it to accomplish the task with the least intrusiveness possible to keep us safe.
Civil Rights
All people, regardless of race, ethnicity, sex, gender or sexual orientation deserve the right to the pursuit of happiness. Barry believes this includes, but is not limited to, the right to equal pay for equal work, the ability to decide who to marry and the ability to decide when to have children.
Barry is also a staunch supporter of recent Supreme Court decisions regarding the 1st, 2nd., 4th., 5th., 6th., and 8th Amendments to the United States Constitution along with the need to maintain the separation of power’s between the three branches of government. The “Federal Courts must” remain apolitical for a free America.
Barry’s Opinion On ISIS
I’ve been asked to give my opinion on ISIS, so rather than write a book on the subject, I will try to condense it to a few paragraphs.
I’d like to preface by stating the United States of America, as the world’s only superpower should set an example for the rest of the world, not by its military size, or its number of bombs, but as a leader in education, health care and civil rights.
In my opinion ISIS is a war on Islam, an ideology that cannot be won with bombs, especially U.S. bombs. For the most part, it’s a fight between Shia and Sunni, two branches of the Islamic faith. This hatred has existed for more than a thousand years.
Although Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator, he was one of only two regimes in history able to hold Iraq together. His army was composed primarily of Sunni’s, who were the country’s minority. Once the U.S. and its allies toppled his regime they disbanded the army. This not only left the majority of Sunni’s unemployed and out of power, it created the Iraq of today and opened the door to a new ideology, ISIS was born.
I’ve always been against both the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. I believe you can not kill an ideology with the barrel of a gun. However, I do believe the more the U.S. is involved militarily, the more we help promote ISIS ideology and terrorism attacks within our own borders.
I believe ISIS itself does not represent a threat to our homeland, but individual acts of terrorism are. Preventing these type of acts are a function of education, intelligence and law enforcement working together with an emphasis on technology with a balance of individual civil rights. Let’s use our money where it does the most amount of good, let’s use it here at home.
It has been recently estimated the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq will cost U.S. taxpayers up to $6 trillion, when you account for the medical care of wounded veterans. Think what just a small portion of these funds could do if used to better our own nation.
Lets stay out of other country’s politics and nation building. I believe most of you would probably agree, we have enough of our own political issues here at home. After all, depending on what side of the fence you’re on, one’s liberator can also be one’s terrorist.
Why not become the nation that inspires all other nations, rather than the one known only for our might?
Terrorism
Is terrorism a thing of the past or of the time? Whether we call them ISIS, ISIS inspired or by any other name.
barry believes terrorism today is in part the result of the World Wide Web coupled with its ability to instantaneously mass communicate.
I’m believe it’s with us to stay and there’s little we can do to eradicate it. We can only hope to contain it through different modes of counter terrorism, advanced technology and plain old law good enforcement techniques.
As a strict advocate of constitutional rights we have a strict balancing act here to perform. I would call it the need to know versus the right to know or what constitutionalist call narrowly tailoring it to accomplish the task with the least intrusiveness possible to keep us safe.
