On Tuesday, December 8th, Taliban released a video to President Obama claiming that US troops would not be safe in Afghanistan. Hours later there were attacks in Kandahar, the second largest city in the country, at a surrounding school and market bazaar. Ultimately, fifty people died, including thirty-eight civilians, two policeman, and ten Afghan soldiers. Another thirty-five people were wounded and nine terrorists were killed. The Taliban quickly claimed responsibility for these attacks. Taliban soldiers entered the bazaar with machine guns and quickly began to shoot everyone in their path.
According to global terrorism expert, Amy Zalman, Ph.D, terrorists' acts are motivated by two things: social and political injustice and the belief that violence effective. The question we face today is how do we stop it? From the recent San Bernadino massacre, we know that it is not just the large well-known terrorist groups we have to worry about, there are individuals all over the world capable of these attacks. These terrorists are so dissatisfied with a political situation that they believe violence will somehow resolve the problem. Recently, Dalai Lama spoke about terrorism following the Paris attacks. "Humans have created this problem, and now we are asking God to solve it, it is illogical. God would say, solve it yourself because you created it in the first place."
Terrorism will always exist since idealism is hard to kill unfortunately. Some people are just extremists and there is no changing that. It really is unfortunate that some parts of the world are so isolated and can not experience normal thoughts outside of their mentors.
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