The Motivation of Terrorism

Tim Harford points out that Educational level shows little moderation of Terrorist sentiment. I believe he, and most other Examiners, miss the essential Point: Almost all Terrorist propaganda and espousal originates from the Educated Classes. They are necessary to define Rallying points for the masses, they are again necessary for the design of effective Terrorist targets, and again necessary for the proper functioning of Terrorists operations. The 9/11 Terrorists had to know and comprehend Piloting of aircraft, Air traffic codes in English, and Air traffic schedules. Knowledge of Navigation technique was necessary to find and hit the Targets of 9/11. These are all Skill levels rarely introduced at High Schools.

One might ask what is the impulse behind Collegiate drift towards Terrorism. Citation of multiple causation will undoubtedly miss the Issue structure, though it will be a recounting of elements of the overall problem. There is a basic alienation with the general society, whether this be a crushed Love affair, lack of Job opportunity in their field, anger at the lack of respect for their achievements, or simple inability to maintain the same Living Standard as the Households from which they sprang. Envy of the attainments of Others forms the base foundation on which they lay their personal anger at Society. The major difference between themselves and the masses resides in their possession of the scientific methods to attempt punishment of Society for imagined Wrongs.

John Quigley and David Gordon show that the behavior of leadership does scarcely better than the Educated Terrorist. Decisions taken towards violence action most often is based on false tenets to energize the Populace, while the impulse to warfare comes from personal advantage in national politics. Truman invaded Korea so that Stalin bastard wouldn’t win another Country, even though he knew the C.I.A. had been conducting cross-border Raids into North Korea since 1947. The Gulf of Tonkin Incident was manufactured by the Johnson administration, none of the Navy personnel on Station actually witnessing any torpedoes; the rationale being that increased War spending would cancel opposition to passage of Johnson’s social legislation. The Invasion of Kuwait impelled Bush most because of his Oil political support, who feared Saddam’s refusal to abide by the maintenance system of World Oil pricing. Clinton’s incursion into the Yugoslavian disintegration had more to do with forestalling the Movement at home to cancel American commitment to NATO, than it did with the practice of ethnic cleansing. The younger Bush needed to have something to attack after 9/11, else look ineffective; the Administration perceiving Afghanistan and Iraq as easy Targets. American Politics must be considered the most dangerous Terrorist of them all, due to the Educated immorality of its Practitioners. lgl