Where have I heard that before?

My continuing research into terrorism is producing some invaluable insights into the phenom that we are dealing with in the 21st century….Terrorism.

These days with every attack on civilians there is a wealth of media and others that want to spread fear….fear by the way fits in the hands of terrorists perfectly…….the paradigm runs the gambit of who is to blame….

Fear is the best weapon for a terrorist and the next best weapon is ignorance…..and these days there is a wealth of both.

Terrorism is all too real a threat, and mass attacks cause a special kind of fear. Terrorist movements like ISIS kill innocents for the worst of causes and the worst of reasons. They seek to use fear to separate the West from the Muslim world, and to divide the Muslim world and dominate it. They try to use alienated Muslims in the West to create a growing climate of anger and distrust with Europe and the United States. They deliberately seek to get the West to overreact and lash out against all Muslims and Islam, just as they try to use extremism and violence to try to get the populations of Muslim countries to attack their own governments.

They also feed on Western ignorance of Islam, and the fear of new and unfamiliar risks. We in the West have learned to live with most forms of our mortality. We accept the fact that life has a wide range of risks, almost all of which are far more serious than terrorism: Lightning, suicide, traffic, disease, home accidents produce far more deaths than terrorism.

Source: Terrorism: The Thing We Have to Fear Most is Fear Itself | World Affairs Journal

There is way too much regurgitation on terrorism for there to be an understanding by the average person……they are filled with misinformation….not necessarily lies but rather incomplete information that plays into the dialog that some want to have…..the more fear the easier to mold into a the paradigm they want for this country.

I refuse to let Right wing bloggers or scum like Breibart or Alex Jones educate me on terrorism….I even do not trust such rags as NY Times or the WaPo to inform me properly…but then that is me and I have never been one to jump to a conclusion….especially when fear is the subject.

For all the dramatic headlines they generate, ISIS and similar groups are minor players in the scheme of things. Yes, al-Qaeda brought down the World Trade Center and even got a shot at the Pentagon, but it and its mutant offspring never represented an existential threat to the United States and its allies. The most they can do is harass, provoke – and provide a convenient pretext for Western governments to launch military expeditions and extend their powers on the home front.

It is their rhetoric that we seem to fear the most…..and like most rhetorical BS it is mostly….HOT AIR!