World View

#1 terrorist = U.S. gov't. Lying to invade a sovereign country which resulted in the deaths of a million iraqis is called terrorism in the extreme. No one would be flying planes into buildings in the U.S. if the U.S. was not in other peoples' territory and didn't take a rigid one-sided stance on the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. I find people extremely stupid and arrogant who say these extremists want to kill Americans because of our freedom. Uh no, stupid idiot, they want us out of their lands and want us to stop supporting policies that result in the killings of innocent peoples in the middle east. you ain't all that so stop thinking that you are with our 3rd world health care system, declining quality of education (apparent especially by the hillbilly rednecks of the US), and declining economy.

I'm very disturbed by how many people don't understand what's going on in the world. Prejudice and ignorance are so common in the US, and people foolishly argue their points with incomplete information. Uughh! The internet has opened the eyes of the world to how stupid our citizens really are. It's embarrassing. Maybe we're not all stupid, but there is very rarely an intelligent string of comments after a story a like this. Maybe all the smart people are actually out living life instead of sitting in front of the computer making idiotic comments on a website for all the world to see.

The empire is just doing what empires do.

Though the terrorists terrorize by destroying soft targets and civilians, I think terrorist think they are justified because certain Muslim land is under occupation or that few legitimate governments have been officially killing the civilians, oppressing the occupied civilians, or supporting the oppression and killings. It is common sense that they are not crazy, they have desires too. It is obvious, they think they have a valid reason to terrorize what ever they can get their hands on.
What they don't realize is that terrorism is also an oppression because it involves killing of civilians.

Their grievance may be valid from their point of view, but their tactic is equally bad and, two wrongs don't make it right.
Anyway, I think the world has to seriously look at the problem and put an end to occupation.

The best ways is to deal with root cause.
At the same time, negotiate and destroy the terrorist with extreme precision without killing a single civilians, when necessary, because the terrorist targets innocent civilians.

Let the parent country do the job of killing the terrorist, other wise it becomes Muslim vs Non Muslim fight, more than fighting the terrorist.

It is not the sick medieval philosophy, it is their response to occupation & oppression. There is a statistical date on human right violation that validate the oppression & killing of civilians by responsible countries.

I think terrorist know very well they cannot fight regular armies, that is why they use terrorism as an effective methodology to create a serious impact. I think it is common sense. I think, the best way to gain public support in Muslim countries is by not killing civilians in the process of killing terrorist. Also, letting the parent country do the killing of terrorist, because Muslims don't like it when Non Muslims kill their Muslim brothers. They have no problem if a Muslim kills a Muslim terrorist. It may sound like a joke. But this is the reality.

I think if there any country other than the US where hundreds of soldiers have sacrificed their lives in fighting the war on terrorism, it is Pakistan.
I think their sacrifices are not given due recognition by Americans and the world.
As a matter of fact Mr. Bush has responded in a unique & weird way.
As an example US was attacked by somebody else and Mr. Bush responded by attacking Iraq and destroying millions of families and their livelihoods and future.
Mr. Bush created unprecedented number of jobs, but created the American work force overseas instead of creating in America.
Now we have a serious underemployment & unemployment and the related problems of inability to make payments.
As a result homes are being foreclosed on, banks are being nationalized, Wall Street is being put on steroids to survive.
Mr. Bush got the ultimate sacrifices of lives from Pakistan but rewarded India with nuclear technology.
Mr. Bush's response is unique by all standards.

I believe the Islamic religion is a cover for the Muslims to destroy Christianity and take over the world. All nations must be vigilant in their fight to destroy all fanatic religions, not just the Muslims. We must take this war to the enemy and not let it build up around our communities. It's just like George Bush says "If you harbor the terrorists, you are a terrorist too.

Taliban/Al Quaida blah blah all are residue left from cold war with soviets perhaps.

Primary issue socially/economically backward regions in Afghan/Paki are producing terrorists in hundreds countering this would need to build economies of Afghan/Pak might take 10-20yrs with proper US/UN vision,secondly strengthening Governments of Pak/Afghan giving them adequate miltary/intelligence support so they could crush any insurgency. Well this could be hard might need some scare tactics of full scale US invasion of Pakistan. BTW getting hold or getting rid of OBL doesn't really help in quashing this socio-economic issue Afghan/Pak are facing.

George Bush is the world's #1 terrorist. In a fair world, he would be up on war crime charges.

I think I maybe odd man out here but I believe that if the Pakistani government is unable or unwilling to control parts of its' own nation then how can that nation be considered sovereign? By definition sovereignty is the control by law and the is no law in these areas. I say get the terrorist and worry about the politicians later.

this is all a charade... osama was killed years ago...

As a Pakistani I can tell you all is not what it seems. The way I see it on the ground from here it is in the interest of Pakistani Politicians, Military and Even US tacticians for the situation to stay the way it is and this issue to carry on, although new army chief has taken some matters to solve these issues once and for all.

But if they were willing to solve this issue of Frontier and Afghanistan insurgency, US with all its might would just need to take one simple step, STOP POPPY GROWTH, doesn’t need bombs or army or anything. Instead of giving billions to Governments and Warlords, just give few thousand to the poor farmer to give up on drugs. Drug money is used to finance all of this both sides of the border and if it dries up for 2 years this war is over and done with. It won’t stop easily now since it’s rooted all the way up to the level of Afghan president Karzai’s brother (who happens to be the darling of the West) WARS are not cheap for anyone. FYI (Suicide blast at Marriott would have needed about 7 - 10 Million USD to finance just one single operation like that) - someone please look at the bigger picture and stop blaming religion or culture.

These extremist just religion be it Islam or Christianity Hinduism just as a base of power in areas which are below the poverty line and education is next to zero. Go back to history books it’s the same thing as Church v the State (just for power) got nothing to do with any Religion.

Petraeus has his orders. He has a pipeline route to clear, by any means necessary.

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/the-ones-who-attacked-us/

Pakistan Army is influenced by the ISI and still believe that the Terror groups will provide Pakistan with an base in AFGHANISTAN , and also INDIA. Till the people are told the truth about PAKISTAN and the army involvment in INDIA and AFGHANISTAN, no policy change will occur

Look guys, the REAL terrorists are the illuminati & the freemasons who are controlling the puppets in the US govt that do whatever they say, let's not forget who is funding all this activity, you gotta keep in mind here that both sides of every major war in history have been funded by bankers, THEY WANT us to do their dirty work, they make people of different countries, ethnicity, etc, to fight each other, INSTEAD of the ones who funded them to fight each other in the first place, HELLO PEOLPE, WAKE UP!

Ben Ladin does not exist it is likely that he has been dead for sometime. It is time that we as American stop the nonsense about a bogeyman in ever corner of the earth wanting to take our freedom away.

It seems that whenever there is a suicide bombing that occurs somewhere in the world we personalize and pretend that it happened in America. We need to end the profiteering on fear.

Wake up America, we are wasting a tremendous amount of resources, tax dollars, on the military industrial complex while the the country is imploding internally.

Let's put some sense back into our foreign policy and stop the nonsense. Yes, there are threats we have to deal with like every other country but I don't see these other countries going beserk about fighting terrorism with military strikes and intervention.

Why? Is it because these countries understand the root causes of terrorism and why a people would take up a struggle, whether it's the Taliban or the Muhajdeens, to fight what they perceived to be imperialism.