Since the beginning of human society, there have always been struggles and
competitions for survival and prosperity, terrorism is not a recent phenomenon,
however in modern times it has progressed to reflect the advances in civilization and
power structures. At the time of the 9.11 terrorist attacks in the U.S. A., a new world
order was in the process of being established after the breakdown of the Cold War
era. The attacks drove both the Western and the Islamic worlds into heightened fear
of terrorism and war, which threatened the quality of life of the whole mankind.
Through two war campaigns against the Islamic world, it seems the U.S. has been
pushing its own militaristic security road map of the Greater Middle East democratic
initiative, justifying it as a means to retaliate and eradicate the terrorist threats
towards themselves. However, with its five-year lopsided victories that cost the nation
almost four thousand military casualties, and the war expenses that could match the
Vietnam war, the U.S. does not yet seem to be totally emancipated from the fears of
terrorism.
Terrorism, in itself, is a means of resisting forced rules a form of alternative
competition by the weak against the strong, and a way of expressing a dismissive
response against dictatorial ideas or orders which allow for no normal changes.
Intrinsically, the nature of terrorism is a reaction opposing power logics. Confronted
with the absolute military power of the U.S., the Islamic strategies of terrorism have
begun to rapidly evolve into a new stage The new strategies take advantage of their
civilization and circumstances, they train and inspire their front-line fighters on the
Internet, and issue their orders through the clandestine network of the Al Qaeda
operatives. These spontaneously generated strategies have been gained speed among
the second, and third Islamic generations, many of whom are now spread throughout
western societies.
This represents a failure of the power-driven, one-sided overseas security initiatives
by the U.S., and is creating a culture of fear and distrust in western societies. It is feared that the U.S. war campaigns have made the clash of religions far worse than
before, and may ever lead to global ethnic separations and large-scale population
movements. Eventually, it may result in the terrorist groups, enlarged and secretly
supported by the huge sums of oil money, driving all mankind into a series of
irreparable catastrophes.