The War on Terrorisms

The war on terrorisms

The war on terrorisms has had many lost souls, this war has been the most expensive war is history and not a lot of countries are in favor of it.

Because of the terror attacks on September 11, the president of the United States George W Bush and his government has spent hundreds of billions of dollars trying to protect their county and finding terrorist on other countries. (Picture 1)

Terrorism is the affected, use of violence to bring forth fear . Terrorists know what they are doing and their targets are planned in advance. Terrorism may be motivated by political, religious, or ideological ideas. The base of terrorism is to produce fear in someone to make a government change its political attitude. Although it is relatively new in the mainstream world, extremists have practiced terrorism to generate fear and compel a change in behavior throughout history . Before the nineteenth century, terrorists usually recognized innocents - people not involved in conflict - and made sure not to harm them. But now terrorist don't care who they hurt, they just want to get they point across like the acts of September the 11th. There has been so much money spent on the American led War on Terrorism, but is it actually working or is terrorism here to stay.

Environmental Issues on the War on Terrorism

The environment has probably been hardest hit by the War on Terror, what America has done after the acts of September 11th is that they have enacting the Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit Act of 1995. This means if a program demonstrated that the benefits would exceed the costs they would go ahead with the program or act . Environmental law scholars and public interest groups have no doubt assumed that the Republican Congress will enact the old cost-benefit bill. The Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and the Community Right to Know Act, these acts require industrial polluters to monitor their pollutant releases, making this data available to the public. The resulting Toxic Release Inventory database available on the Web has been a powerful tool for environmentalists, frequently leading to dramatic reductions in toxic releases. The Safe Drinking Water Act's mandate that consumers be thoroughly informed about the content of drinking water has kept water treatment operators on their toes . Drinking water treatment plants, for example, are targets for terrorists; by dumping chemicals into water sources, enemies may poison an entire town or city in a matter of hours . The many environmental impacts include, the preparation for war, including training grounds, camps, barracks, weapons testing etc. the immediate impacts of terrorism, are usually sudden, and can be either direct or indirect. Direct impacts include bomb and blast damage to settlements, rural areas and communication networks. Defoliation and ecosystem destruction, the dumping of the machinery of war and the destruction of resources such as oil fields also occur. Indirect impacts are many and varied and are often longer lasting than the direct impacts. They include the construction of various camps such as refugee camps, and the distortion of population composition as young males join the conflict; in countries where agriculture is a major activity this may result in land abandonment and degradation may ensue. Other indirect impacts include loss of wildlife as animals are hunted for bush meat. Particularly long-lasting effects include the use of land for war graves and other things. Also if terrorists get a hold of a plane what is used for agriculture like spraying herbicides and pesticides they can put chemicals on the planes and omit them over large area in a short period of time which can kill plants, animals and even people.

Social Issues on the War on Terrorism

In a society that is every changing many people have different thoughts about the war on terror, the days after 911, the Council on American-Islamic Relations says it received more than 300 reports of harassment and abuse the week after the attacks, nearly half the number it received all the year before . Khalid Iqbal, director of the Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group, says cases range from families being spat and yelled at, "Go back to your country," to assaults on people and businesses, like in Mesa, Arizona, a man was charged with first-degree murder that police said was racially-motivated response to the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington . Mesa police said Francisco Roque, 42, was being held on a $1 million bond in the killing of Balbir Singh Sodhi, 49, a gas station owner. Sodhi, from Punjab, India, was shot to death while doing landscaping outside his business Saturday afternoon. This is all because people don't want to find out answers they just want to put blame on anyone that can fit the disruption.

Family members, friends, and members of the Indian Sikh community say they are being targeted because their men wear turbans and long beards as part of their religious says too, a tradition that's lasted for 500 years. "Our appearance looks like Osama bin Laden and those of Afghanistan," said friend Suminder Sodhi, "But we are different people from Muslim people. We have different beliefs, a different religion." A leader of the Phoenix Sikh community says the media didn't help people to understand our religion when they broadcast the arrest of a Sikh aboard an Amtrak train. He was charged with carrying a knife, which was just a religious symbol and was later cleared of any connection to the terrorist attacks. Sodhi is survived by three sons and daughters. Attacks on Sikhs, Hindus, and Muslims have increased because of people's lack of knowledge of the religions and their beliefs and because of that many innocent people are getting injured or even killed.

Economic Issues

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