Internal vs. External Terrorism in Great Britain and the Uni

Terrorism is a world wide epidemic. It stems from many sources: religion, racial hatred, anarchy, perceived governmental alliances, living conditions, political agendas, etc… In both the United States and Great Britain, there have been many lives lost and important resources and infrastructure destroyed by terrorism. In each instance, there have been fanatics of one sort or another. Ranging from those that believe that they are Holy Warriors to those that believe that the world should be racially pure and devoid of any, “mongrelized races.” These groups and individuals are not limited to being foreigners that have a grudge, but they can also be people from right in our own backyard, possibly even the neighbor next door or the child we raised. There are no limitations on who can become a terrorist, nor of where they will come from to initiate their attacks. The only limitations are the ones that we place on ourselves in the false hope that we can control, prevent or mitigate anything that these deviants do to further their cause.

In the United States the majority of terrorism seems to be external. A lot of it is directed at us because of our al

liances with Israel and other Middle Eastern cultures and governments; and with the general hatred which is so prevalent with the conflict of have vs. have-not groups of people. With the United States as one of the most targeted nations on the face of the earth, it is no wonder that we have become paranoid about the countries that surround the Middle Eastern region of the world. The vast majority of all attacks on the United States originate in the Middle East. Organizations such as Hamas, Abu Nidal, Hizballah, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and specifically al-Qaeda have targeted United States interests during the past 50 years. The most recent of these was the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City as well as the attempted destruction of the Pentagon that took place on September 11, 2001. Throughout all of the attacks on the United States during the past 50 years, not until the mass death caused by the airlines crashing into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, did we truly realize what kind of enemy we were up against. The utter brutality with which these terrorist organizations carry out their tasks borders on the insane. They are all either angry at the United States for not supporting their agendas, or because we support the agendas of their adversaries. Since the United States is the major military superpower, we are obligated to have a future global involvement in any conflicts that arise, whether or not we are affiliated with the UN at the time or not. In any such future engagements, we will likely be viewed suspiciously, even when we are totally neutral in a conflict. When the United States has to switch from keeping the peace, to actually enforcing it under arms, which is when the likelihood of a disputes reaction will spillover into retaliation by the parties involved that think we do not belong or are in the wrong.

With all that is going on in the world today, an individual might predict that with not only the currently existing terrorists that are following through with such movements as relate to issues such as environmentalism in a radical way, the outskirt participants of the pro-life factions, as well as those animal rights groups that take things to the extremes, that there will be a proliferation of emerging organizations that have no qualms about using terrorism to bring to light any supposed and actual grievances that have been inflicted upon them. While these groups may not seem to be linked to any of the established social and political ideals, they still hold the possible capability to capitalize on their impact due to the mass availability of so many different weapons, targets, and easily manipulated media and communications assets available today. Both the United States and Great Britain are just hitting the tip of the proverbial iceberg of the threat that is posed by both the international order of things and the potential damage that can be caused to the interests and citizens both at home and overseas. The obstacles that are facing the armed forces are more challenging than they have ever been before. Today we have been engulfed in an unmatched amount of changes in the world. Thru it all we are constantly questing for ways to control the events and mitigate any damage caused by those that seek to hurt us. The armed forces of both the United States a

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