Countering Global Terrorism and Insurgency Pledges

Question: Discuss about the Countering Global Terrorism and Insurgency Pledges. Answer: Introduction: Terrorism has always been indiscriminate and has been considered as a way to create terror and fear among people. In the view point of Chomsky, (2015), terrorism activities are carried on by the terrorists in order to achieve some sort of political, religious and even ideological goals. It is the fourth generation warfare and has been creating violence in the society (David, Asuelime Onapajo, 2015). The major aim of the terrorist activities is to symbolize human fear and help achieve certain goals that would not otherwise be acceptable by the government or other ruling bodies. However, there still remain the question that is the terrorism effective and does it is a means for achieving certain objectives in life to the ones who practice this kinds of activities called terrorism. The aim of this essay is to shed light on the various perspectives of terrorism and to determine the facts that are considered to be effective for those who practice terrorism. Thus, a detailed analysis of th e various reasons responsible for terrorism shall be discussed in this essay. Perspectives of both the practitioners and the one who gets affected due to the terrorism activity shall be discussed in this essay. The arguments shall be supported by a number of examples that would increase the credibility of the essay. It has to be understood that a broad range of political organizations have been found to practice terrorism to achieve their objectives in life. These groups are right and left wings of political organizations, the religious groups, any nationalist groups or even the ruling government itself (Marchal, 2013). It can be said that terrorism is effective particularly against the democrats because the electorates are typically sensitive towards the aftermaths of the terrorism activities. Terrorism results in huge number of casualties that ultimately results to induce the leaders to grant concessions to terrorist factions. There have been many situations when the victims have been targeted because of the increased domination of the leaders (Ingram, 2015). The situations of political assassination and campaign against the wars raged by the powerful political parties have been the reasons behind the increased terrorist activities in the recent time. However, if the authoritarian regime is co nsidered, the situation is somewhat different from that of the democrats. The authoritarian regime in contrast is more responsive only to the ruling elite class (Carlton Schaerf, 2015). Thus, there remain lesser chances to accede to the terrorist demand in response to the civilian causalities. In the view point of White, (2016), terrorism was originally referred to the acts that were committed by the government, but recently, terrorism referred to the innocent killing and the demolishing of the resources of the particular nation. Terrorism has been a topic of interest for all the governmental bodies and the union groups. For example, the United Nations has described terrorism to be the intended cause behind the serious loss of lives and responding to any moderate or modern warfare that hinders the government from any kind of act that might result in serious demolition of life and property (Al-Dahash, Kulatunga Amaratunga, 2014). Any act of terrorism is a performance that is devised to affect large group of people. It has also been evident that terrorism attacks the national symbols to create greater domination on the particular society. This eventually shaken the foundation of the country and create a negative effect on the government aiming at increasing the prestige of the particular terrorist group. There is no doubt that terrorism indeed has certain political purpose combined with religious issues as well. In addition to this, it has also been evident that the terrorism activity is also accompanied with spiritual activities as well (Combs, 2015). There is no doubt that the terrorists have been successful in achieving its goals of creating fear among the people and has also resulted in the deaths of thousands of innocent people. Often claims are made towards the fact that terrorism is effective and the strategies intended are to achieve some sort of political objectives. Even in the todays political and judicial scenario, there is no such claim that would signify the real definition of terrorism. It can be both a state and a non-state affair that might result in the creation of certain disastrous situations for the people who becomes victimized due to the increasing influence of these activities. In the view point of Cohen, S. (2016), terrorism is often gets motivated from the political point of consideration as well. It has been evident in many cases that the terrorists get enough support from the state where it operates. In such cases, the distinction between the civilian and the non-civilians often gets confused. The soldiers can act both as a support for the country and at the same time might create terror in the country where it creates its domination. If the situation of the most evident terrorist acti vity of all times, the attack of the 9/11 is considered, that has occupied the headlines of the leading newspaper dailies for a time of more than three months, it has to be said that the soldiers of the country had significant role to play in the terrorist activity (Underhill, 2014). The true motive of the terrorism in this act was estimated to create fear among the people of the nation but at the same it comprises of a support system of the military that cannot be simply separated out from the gauge. The impact of the terrorist attack created sadism but at the same time it created the hype that the attack was intended towards a profit motive that was shrouded in the political claim. In many situations when the terrorists are done with the activities, they are said to have been won in their own way and has been successfully created fear and terror among the people of the nation. Thus, the effectiveness of terrorism can be easily assumed and they have gained victory and have achieved provocation as a result of their activity (Eadie, 2016). If the similar situation is intend to end, the effectiveness of terrorism takes a different turn within its meaning. The terrorists are found to completely utilized the resources and the members related to the activities of the terrorism and thus gain support to keep going on their way. Thus, to certain extent the political objectives can be considered to get fulfilled as a means of utilizing terrorism effectively. The terrorist organizations certain terms and conditions to be fulfilled that would eventually aim at achieving the political objectives of the particular state. If the Iraqi war of independence is taken under consideration, it has been evident that in 2003, the United States invaded Iraq and began an eight year long occupation in the country. This automatically led to the situation of de-establishing the Middle East and ultimately resulted in the loss of thousands of lives along with huge amount of money (Gordon, 2003). From the Marxist point of consideration, it can be said that the US invasion of Iraq was the result of the increasing aggressive capitalist expansionism for the purpose of securing threatened oil for the future production. The invasion was explained by the hegemonic control of the social norms and construction. Overall the Marxist interpretation has an interesting interpretation over the terrorism activities. For instance the Iraq war of 2003, lead to the coalition invasion to overthrow Saddam Husain (Murray Scales, 2003). There was a continuous fault line of sectarian and ethnic tensions but Saddam has always made it a poin t that no Western country would endorse any kind of interference in their warfare. Special operation forces were ideally suited to conduct certain sorts of counterterrorism because of their intense training and the specialized equipments available to them. The conventional army units were not able to carry out any kind counter terrorism due to their organizational structure and the broad set of mission (Gordon, 2003). It was due to this reason, the US Army Special Forces in Iraq were allowed to create Iraqi counterterrorism force model after the United States own special operation Forces. It is believed that the reason held behind the Iraq war has resulted in fearing the Islamic Revolution at the Iran war. Although the Iraqi government was dominated by the Sunni Muslim during the Iraq war, Saddam feared that Iran was dominated by the Shitte Muslim and thus, there remained the chances of internal conflict as well. However, the Iraqi war was a major operation to attain freedom for Iraq (Murray Scales, 2003). The forces gained rapid conventional military victory but the terrorist power of the guerrilla group continued over the troops of the UK and US army. The increased rate of deaths and mortality resulted in huge destruction of lives. The American troops were also killed. Although the Iraq army stood beside their people and fought against the oppression of the US army, it was considered that the US army had been morally correct (Gordon, 2003). Thus, moral challenges and ethical dilemma persisted in their action. If the Just war theory is taken into consideration, it h as to been stated that if the reason behind the war is justified, the country responsible for the warfare can be considered and their decision towards the war can be justified. Therefore, the war waged against Iraq can be justified because the aim was to create harmony among the states. However, the mass destruction of people and property can never be justified. In 2013, Bill Durodie shared his experience on terrorism activities and how the terrorists are involved in the terrorism (Thomas, 2014). America has been at constant war with the transnational movement fueled with the radical ideology of hatred, oppression and murder. The country has been undertaking a number of national Strategies to combat against the increasing terrorism. The aim of the country is to eradicate the increasing terrorism activity and reach out a situation where the world would be a better place for all. It was evident that Iraq had connections with major terrorist groups that can be a serious situation for the whole world to combat against the increasing oppression and terror situation that was persisting in the world (Gordon, 2003). There had to be some ways of getting over these situation and bring out solution to stop the war. For such reasons, the interference of US in the Iraq war can be considered fair enough. With the detailed analysis, it can be easily interpret that terrorism has two faces; one that has left the world threatened and the other where the people practicing terrorism has been striving for their own rights and authorities. There is no dilemma that there remain political reasons behind the terrorism activities occurring in different regions of the world. It is only when the activist groups are declined of their basic rights they undertake other ways of asking the same from the government. Eventually, the situation takes a negative turn and results in war. The war ultimately caused huge loss of lives and money. As it has been evident that during the Bush administration, the situation got worse and the world had to witness certain things that were unpredictable but caused huge distress in the country. In the recent time, terrorism has also taken turn in the name of religion as well. Terrorist groups like ISIS have been killing people in the name of religion and created a new kind of terror in the society. The terrorist activities affect lives throughout the globe and it results in huge loss. Although several measures are taken to combat against these situations, the world still remains in an unrest situation. The role of the governmental organizations cannot be denied. Several attempts have been made to combat these issues. However, with the degrading situation of the world, World War III has also been predicted. The situation might get even worse if proper precautionary actions are not undertaken. It shall be the responsibility of the major developed countries to take necessary steps against the increasing terrorism activities. References: Al-Dahash, H., Kulatunga, U., Amaratunga, D. (2014). Evaluation of the system of disaster management resulting from war operations and terrorism in Iraq.Procedia Economics and Finance,18, 900-907. Carlton, D., Schaerf, C. 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