Terrorism

             Terrorism is the use of force or violence against persons or property in
             violation of the criminal laws of the United States for purposes of intimidation,
             coercion or ransom. Terrorists often use threats to create fear among the
             public, to try to convince citizens that their government is powerless to prevent
             terrorism, and to get immediate publicity for their causes ("Backgrounder –
             Terrorism is a huge problem and on my opinion will become an even bigger problem in the future. First of all, the problem of terrorism will grow because it poses lots of threats on our society. Secondly, with time passing attack fluency and destruction size of terrible acts of terrorism have shown to grow. That will continue to cause numerous deaths of people somehow related to the terrorist group or not in relation, therefore innocent civilians. Also large amount of money needs to be spent to prevent terrorism. And at last, the number of terrorist organizations drastically increases, and shows greater danger, because of the groups' capabilities, strengths, the activities they have committed and the support they get from a huge number of countries worldwide.
             First of all, terrorism will continue to provide numerous very deviant and harmful threats to the society. These threats include: the missile threat, the biological and chemical threats, and nuclear proliferation. "We are all familiar with Russian and Chinese capabilities to strike at military and civilian targets throughout the United States ("Terrorism" 1). What is also said in the "Terrorism" article is that "over the next 15 years, however, our cities will face ballistic missile threats from a wider variety of actors – North Korea, probably Iran, and possibly Iraq"(1). It is clearly shown that the threats are growing, which is not what needs to be happening, but the truth is that the seriousness of threats on...

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