Do Hyun Lee
Johnson Carlton
English Writing
17 May 2011
Terror
Terror. What things come into your mind when you hear or see this word? Although, there can be many things but most of the people will think of 9.11 terror. Why this terror is taking place on many people’s thought? Because it made lots of damages to the big nation that is United State of America. Also, the Osama Bin Laden who is the leader of Al-Qaeda is known as the master mind of this people. By this fact, 9.11 terror is an perfect example that is against the big nation. When I was young and saw that terror, I just thought Osama Bin Laden is just a bad man who made lots of damages in the United States. Although I became old, I didn’t have time to think about this event and forgot about the terror. But due to the situation that happened in the Libya also the Osama Bin Laden’s death (Kwon 9 ) saying “Obama is the best terrorist on the world.”(Kwon, 9). And I found out terror is the world-wide problem. Also, I felt I have to think about this matter and have to find the solution of the terrorism that can help or change the world. Not only that, I felt reducing the terror will help to accommodate the global peace. I want to give the definite solutions to reduce the terrorism but I couldn’t find it, because I found there will be terrors in the future. But I will give the direction of the solutions in this essay. So, this essay will cover about my thought about the terrorisms and the direction to reduce the terrorisms.
The definition of the terror refer only to those violent acts which are intended to create fear are perpetrated for a religious, political or ideological goal, deliberately target or disregard the safety of civilians, and are committed by non-government agencies
(Encyclopædia Britannica) But I want to define terror as a type of Bad Lands’ protests against empires or the actions that are behaved from empires to Bad Lands to require its goals. This means that the terror can occur in side way, between empire and the Bad Lands. You will be curious why I use the words Bad Lands or the empire. I will explain my definition of the words; bad lands and empire.
Bad Lands
The location and the geographical feature doesn’t concern with the countries called “Bad Lands.” Then, what’s the factor that makes countries to feel like Bad Lands. It is because of the government and citizens behave badly with bad sense. The countries tagged Bad Lands have similar people on their land; dictators, national heroes who have critical error, overestimate reformer and so on. Some of these people are overly pursuing the power or hold themselves sacred. There are many weird things happen on countries called Bad Lands. For example, in one nation the terrorist is respected to be a revolutionist, and on other nations’ leaders wants aids from the other countries wishing their country to get worse (Tony Wheeler. 8).
Empire
The imperialism has gone and the economic blocks among countries are hastily breaking down. Now we are passing through the globalization that connects economy and cultures worldwide. With the global market and global production lines, the new form of orders, logics are derived. This means that new kind of sovereign is formed. And the empire is the country that controls the new trends, meaning the sovereign power of the world (Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri. 13)
But, I want to say that empire and bad lands are not just limited to the countries. It can be just a little society or the human kinds. We can infer that terror can be held by individuals to the society. Then, let’s figure out why I define terror as the resistance that occurs against empire. According to FBI’s reports on the most of the terrors have goals to accomplish. For example, there was terror in the Baghdad, Iraq, killing the Ali Khudir al-Zind who was a prominent Sunni Seik. According to this report, unknown perpetrator killed him due to stop his attempts; to reconcile Sunnis and Shi’is(FBI,gov). Like this even, the small terror; comparing to other terrors, have a purpose. Let’s look at a big terror. There was a big terror in Glasgow Airport in 30. June. 2007. It was firing the Scotland’s biggest airport and this terror was occurred by Al-Qaida to resist against the western ideology (Global Terrorism Database). There are tons of other examples that prove my definition of the terror.
Let’s find out the reasons of another definition of the terror; actions that are behaved from empires to Bad Lands to achieve goals. The best example that fits to this definition is the assassination of Osama bin Laden (Alex Altman, Michael Crowley. 24). Some people will be curious that why I call this incident “terror.” But, due to my definition, killing Osama bin Laden is a definite violent act that contains a purpose and that means this action is a terror. The purpose of killing Osama bin Laden is to accommodate the world-wide peace.
Although, the terrors might have a good purpose, these still combine the damages. It can destroy the buildings or harm humans. And we could find out that terrors are occurred due to the conflicts between the two nations or more. It will be good for world and society if there are no terrors in the world. But removing the terrors can only occur in the ideal society. I will give two reasons that why the terrors are occurring permanently in the real world.
First of all, human kinds and society that are consisted with human kinds have eager to have outer goods. “Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.” is said by Karl Marx (Karl Marx. 421). This means that society and human kinds continuously desires for goods to satisfy themselves. After getting the goods human kinds are looking for new market; expansion of outer market and goods. According to Karl Marx’s idea, people have desires to have something what they want. The world will be peaceful if people can own things what they wanted. But the problem is that it cannot occur in real world. The desires of human kinds can be same and the sources are limited. It means that there will be conflicts or competitions to satisfy one’s desire.
Also, there are contradiction on equalization on the profits, labor wages and price of goods. This process gives authority to the super power countries that distracts average profits and equal development (Hilferding. 183~235). For example, to distribute same amounts of profits or money there have to be one big bank that has to control. This means that there is one power bank that controls the every money and this violates equal distribution on authority. Like this, the world trend is making the contradiction. According to this contradiction, the campaigns to destroy present society are happening through struggles, riots and revolutions (Lenin, 107). Lenin said “If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.” This means that imperialism exists in the capitalism.
Through this essay, I and the readers learned about the definition of terrorisms and defined the reason why terrors cannot disappear. Now, the essay will be about the direction of solution. As we find out, there are no ways to eliminate the terrorisms but there is the way to reduce the terrorism. .
The most important thing is “communication.” By communicating continuously between empires and bad lands. Due to communication, each countries or societies could understand each other. With understanding, each country could raise possibility to achieve their goals not by using violent action. Also, super power countries should not use their power to the weak countries. If the strong nations use their power to the not powerful countries, there will be conflicts between those. By having these trends on global society, it can accommodate worldwide peace.
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