2) Berger argues that what happened on August 6, 1945 was "consciously and precisely planned". Highlight, underline, or flag the evidence he uses to support this claim. How does this argument support his larger purpose? Berger supports his claim by stating "The victims are chosen indiscriminately in the hope of producing a shock effect on political decision-making by their government" as well as "The two bombs dropped on Japan were terrorist actions. The calculation was terrorist.
The distinction is more than merely rhetorical. For all our necessary emphasis on what we're fighting -- Islamic terrorists bent on the destruction of the West and the establishment of a new caliphate -- we cannot forget what we're fighting for. In March of 2003, the president and a bipartisan congress insisted we needed to invade Iraq in order to thwart Saddam's plans to develop WMD and outsource it to Jihadi surrogates. The nuclear WMD risk was, and remains, a perilous impending threat, though significantly reduced with the removal of Saddam's regime. But seasoned intelligence and national security analysts would argue that our ultimate objective -- to establish an Islamic democracy in the cradle of the Islamic world in order to protect our vital national interests -- is as critical, if not more so today, as it was in 2003.
How developed is Kenya compared to the UK? Kenya is located on the east coast of Africa and covers 582,650 km²; The UK is located in the North West of Europe and covers 243,610 km². Both countries have built up areas and in this essay I wish to compare Kenya and the UK and conclude which is the most developed and in what ways. The life expectancy in Kenya (as shown on the graph below) is very low in comparison to the UK’s. The graph shows the UK’s life expectancy rate continues up in a shallow positive gradient over the course of the allocated years (1960 to 2011), this is showing that there are good facilities in the UK which is keeping that line as steady as possible over the course of 51 years.
The group consists of 550 men and 450 women ranging in the age group 26 through 42. More than half of the group is within a marriage. Thirty-eight percent of the group’s members are relatively healthy. Eighteen percent of the group is smokers and 39 percent are obese. The allotted annual payout that Constructlt will pay out for their members is $4,000 per person.
Out of 45 million, that means 15 million of them are seniors. [No Pity, Joe Shapiro, 1992]. About 32 million are over 65, which is 13 per cent. In 25 years 17 percent will be older than 65. There are hundreds of different kinds of disabilities--some are congenital, but most come later in life.
They recommend attacking terrorist organizations by strengthening international commitments, seeking out the terrorist sanctuaries, and confronting problems such as in Saudi Arabia over oil. One of the bigger challenges would be to prevent the growth of Islamic terrorism. The Commission suggests that the US become an example of moral leadership to the world. They suggest communication and the defense of American ideals throughout the Islamic population. The Commission suggests a maximum effort to countering the accumulation of weapons of mass destruction.
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States said the following: While by no means as threatening as Japan's act of war, the 9/11 attack was in some ways more devastating. It was carried out by a tiny group of people, not enough to man a full platoon. Measured on a governmental scale, the resources behind it were trivial. The group itself was dispatched by an organization based in one of the poorest, most remote, and least industrialized countries on earth. This organization recruited a mixture of young fanatics and highly educated zealots who could not find suitable places in their home societies or were driven from
The question to examine here is are they really terrorists? Or are they simply the most powerful partisanship in the world today? “...The West presents a threat to Islam; ... loyalty to religion and loyalty to democratic institutions and values are incompatible; and that violence is the only proper response” (mi5.gov.uk). This is the belief system that is instilled in members of Al Qaeda which has stemmed from the global message by such figures as Osama Bin Laden. Amongst the teachings of Osama Bin Laden, former Al Qaeda leader, towards his followers is that the removal of Western influence in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other Palestinian Territories is crucial for the survival of Islamic faith, and that the destruction of these “infidels” is the only means of maintaining the strength and existence of Islam.
When he sings, “I made a G today but you made it in a sleazy way. Sellin’ crack to the kids. I gotta get paid.” It shows what the unfortunate people have to do in order to survive. Even though people know it is the morally wrong and dangerous occupation to take up, they sell drugs to get by because there are no other opportunities. Some communities are so torn that legal economic opportunities to support families are nearly nonexistent.
HEIDEGGER AND TERRORISM by ANDREW J. MITCHELL Stanford University ABSTRACT Terrorism is a metaphysical problem that concerns the presence of beings today. Heidegger’s own thinking of being makes possible a confrontation with terrorism on four fronts: 1) Heidegger’s conception of war in the age of technological replacement goes beyond the Clausewitzian model of war and all its modernist-subjectivist presuppositions, 2) Heidegger thinks “terror” (Erschrecken) as the fundamental mood of our time, 3) Heideggerian thinking is attuned to the nature of the terrorist “threat” and the “danger” that we face today, 4) Heidegger rethinks the notion of “security” in a manner that alerts us to the oxymoronic character of “homeland security.” The epoch of terrorism is likewise the era of political transformation that Heidegger identifies with “Americanism.” In this essay an effort is made to think terrorism qua metaphysical problem and to inquire into the perhaps privileged role of America for the thinking of terrorism today. Heideggerian thought is a thinking that is engaged with its times. Whatever we might make of Heidegger’s political choices, the fact remains that even these decisions can be seen as attempts to think with and against the times. It is no stretch to say that our time today is the time of terrorism—an uncommon time, no matter how common a claim this may be—especially in the United States.