Behind the Scenes of the War On Terror
While every American in their right mind knows what the war on terror is, many don’t know what goes on with the many different terrorist organizations and where they came from or why they were made. This paper is to address the controversy of state sponsored terrorism and evaluate the effect this has had on the world through what it is used for
To begin it should be acknowledged as to what precisely state sponsored terrorism consists of. State sponsored terrorism consists of the government support of non-state actors engaged in terrorism. In other words the government pays terrorist organizations to interact in acts of terrorism that are a direct result of the country’s wishes (Government). This tactic is used to deal …show more content…
We breastfed the organization to try and bend their will into ours using the islamic extremists to benefit our foreign interests which obviously backfired, but it did help lead to a stop of the spread of communism. This too, is where we must ask ourselves did it hurt us, or help us in the long run? America's foreign policy has been atrocious in the past 20 years, with a complete failure in Iraq that lead to the formation of ISIS and a deteriorating relationship with Russia (Roggio). Our foreign policy always seems to be whatever will benefit us the most, and I believe this to be the root of all state sponsored terrorism. Countries are not in the best interest of anyone but themselves, and they will go to drastic measures to get accomplished what they want to get done. This is not necessarily a bad thing, as mentioned before the support of state sponsored terrorism helped to stop the spread of communism into Afghanistan. Along with this, many countries use these tactics of taking over an insurgency group and instituting them
While every American in their right mind knows what the war on terror is, many don’t know what goes on with the many different terrorist organizations and where they came from or why they were made. This paper is to address the controversy of state sponsored terrorism and evaluate the effect this has had on the world through what it is used for
To begin it should be acknowledged as to what precisely state sponsored terrorism consists of. State sponsored terrorism consists of the government support of non-state actors engaged in terrorism. In other words the government pays terrorist organizations to interact in acts of terrorism that are a direct result of the country’s wishes (Government). This tactic is used to deal …show more content…
We breastfed the organization to try and bend their will into ours using the islamic extremists to benefit our foreign interests which obviously backfired, but it did help lead to a stop of the spread of communism. This too, is where we must ask ourselves did it hurt us, or help us in the long run? America's foreign policy has been atrocious in the past 20 years, with a complete failure in Iraq that lead to the formation of ISIS and a deteriorating relationship with Russia (Roggio). Our foreign policy always seems to be whatever will benefit us the most, and I believe this to be the root of all state sponsored terrorism. Countries are not in the best interest of anyone but themselves, and they will go to drastic measures to get accomplished what they want to get done. This is not necessarily a bad thing, as mentioned before the support of state sponsored terrorism helped to stop the spread of communism into Afghanistan. Along with this, many countries use these tactics of taking over an insurgency group and instituting them