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Terrorism is a horrible and despicable act, but one has to ask themselves why does a person resort to terrorism in the first place? It's not a random decision that someone makes when they get out of bed. "Oh, I'm going to blow up a plane today with no motive".

People in Iraq currently view USA and UK as terrorists because we go over and shell the shit out of their country. So some of their people fight back, and it leads to terrorist acts. Clearly annihilating them would never work as you would just piss more people off and subsequently more will become terrorists. And you would never beat them because they resort to guerilla warfare.

I'm not going to pretend that I know what the solution is to stop terrorism on western countries, because I don't. But I do think that shelling their homes just pisses them off more than anything, it's not a solution.

For an analogy. It's like going up to a sleeping lion and hitting it with a stick, it was unlikely to attack you before, but because you hit it with a stick now it's almost certain to attack.

It's a tricky situation.

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Also, I don't know who told you that Osama Bin Laden started terrorism, but that is a plain lie. It's existed for thousands of years.