How to solve the problem of terrorism?

Imagine that you are a doctor, and a patient comes to you with a horrible skin disease, asking you for help. What do you do? Cover his body with bandages to hide and suppress the boils and welts? Try to push them back under the skin? Or you try to find the causes that contributed to the beginning of the disease process?

It is always a process that starts somewhere and, through a cause-and-effect chain, reaches the point when it breaks through the skin and becomes visible.

Nobody is born to be a terrorist.

There is a long chain of causes and effects that will lead him to the stage when he is willing to massacre innocent bystanders.

What makes a person do that?

Something happened, sometime in the past, and then the process started. Find out what, where, when, how and why?

Then deal with the underlying causes that turn people into terrorists.

Deal with the social, geo-political, psychological, economical, religious causes that give rise to desperate people wanting to kill others who never did them any harm.

Of course, the powers that be (PTB) do not want to deal with imperialist wars, massive exploitation of third-world nations, economical inequality at home, deliberate fueling of religious and racial tensions. It would not be profitable.

Watching the image of the police and soldiers running around, trying to hunt down terrorists, gave me the impression of watching a patient on a hospital bed, fighting a deadly infection, and then seeing the white cells inside, swarming around the invading microbes, viruses and bacteria that is eating the victim – the human species – alive, from the inside out.

If we don’t deal with the entire cause-and-effect chain, we will be forever doomed to trying to suppress the symptoms instead of curing the patient.

Either we think in terms of the cause-and-effect chain, or we will, eventually, die out.