Terrorist Attacks Dropping?

Posted on May 23, 2008
Filed Under Evil Terrorists, Iraq |

At first, I was skeptical when I came across this.

“Even if the Iraq ‘terrorism’ data are included, there has still been a substantial decline in the global terrorism toll,” said the 2007 Human Security Brief, an annual report funded by the governments of Canada, Norway, Switzerland, Sweden and Britain.

Pay attention to the countries in bold. If Switzerland isn’t trustworthy and very neutral then I don’t know what country is.

“We have concluded that the expert consensus (on terrorism) is probably misleading,” Andrew Mack, director of the Human Security Report Project, told a news conference.

Despite apparent declines in terrorism deaths, many U.S. think-tanks continue to report sharp increases.

Interesting, so the Swiss say there’s a decline and US think-tanks say the opposite.

Data of the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT), funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, points to more than a fourfold increase in worldwide deaths due to terrorism from 1998 to 2006. The sharpest increase came after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

I’m just speculating here but could MIPT be crafting misleading reports simply because a drop in terrorism will mean a drop in the next budget they’re given by Homeland Security? Hellooo, no terrorismo, then no big need for MIPT to exist si?

But hey, you know what, we could completely turn this around the other way.

While a drop in terrorism could mean an American success, it could also be the Swiss and Canadians telling America “hey, okay enough. You won. Now it’s time to pull your troops out. Your job is done. The world is safer now. Go home yankees! You’ve spilled enough blood. Thanks, we appreciate it. No more wars please. That’s it, gracias!” :P

Ah, all I know is that Iraq is witnessing a sharp decrease in violence. Now that has got to be a good thing. There should have been a Surge a long time ago. Better late than never.

Comments

3 Responses to “Terrorist Attacks Dropping?”

  1. Andrew Brehm on May 23rd, 2008 4:57 pm

    “There should have been a Surge a long time ago. Better late than never.”

    Do you not think that there would have been a Surge much earlier if it had been up to the same war-mongers who supported the invasion?

    As for the decrease in terrorism, I think it is easy to think that terrorists themselves believe what they (and the media) want us to believe. Quite in contrast to money-making media reports of terrorist successes (IF the media even call them terrorists), it hasn’t been a good time for terrorist cells and countries supporting them.

    The war in Iraq might breed terrorists but it certainly does give them somewhere to go.

  2. Drima on May 25th, 2008 10:33 am

    If only they’ll make a Surge in Afghanistan too to fight the resurgence of the butchers there.

  3. Andrew Brehm on May 26th, 2008 10:37 am

    Europe always knew better. Let Europe handle Afghanistan.

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