Can't we all just get along?

Our country is still too inexperienced on the military front, concerning missions like that in Afghanistan. So, if there is a bad terrist attack, Germany is likely to pull out all troops after a major public protest against "the war in Afghanistan", even if our troops are not even fighting there.

I hope parliament remains calm and sees not to do just what the terrorist want us to do, which is pulling out of Afghanistan out of fear.

I'd rather we do it more german: Pulling out when the mission is accomplished.

As long as political and/or religious extremists are trying to impose their views on others, any war, including the war in Afghanistan, is bound to last for years; with doubtful results, if any. For each dead "terrorist" many are willing to take his place.
A dilemma.

I hope this will never happen..
Ich liebe Deutschland!

War on Terror, bad B-horror movie,but governments seem to believe it for real.The real horror of it is not only that some many people died, but that governments think they are playing as actors in that movie ,and at the same time believe it's reality.

terror is real.Since we have begun the antislamic programs against all islamic groups and parties, we have indeed begun war against the unknown, islamic extremist.
Every meslem will tell you there is no islamic extremist, as there is no judiest extremist, or catholic extremist, what there is is a religious person or persons who love their religion and are willing to kill others for it...Christians have done it and still do it, Jews have done it and still do it, and meslems have done it and still do it..History has indeed proved to us all, whatever religion we are that religion is a source of light, god, and at the same time a source of evil...Shame on us today we kill each other, especially the weakest among us using religion as the target or the source....bear with me for a minute, how many countries have islam as their main religion, group those, and look at your map and ask yourself do they have any problems today? and why? take the strongest among them? do they have major problems today? and why?
Targetting Islamic countries has been the major target since the establishment of Israel as a state, the overseas policies have been based on that since then, we bribe their rulers directly or indirectly to serve our interest...Europe has done it and still do it....take France Ageria conflict....and the influence of france in the Algerian inside politics....The Iranian Iraq war as an example...The quwaiti Iraq war ...We have mainly made our policies towards those countries very hostile since 2001, by using 9/11 as the point of departure....The world has followed us to rid this world from meslem extremists....who are those extremists? a teacher of religion who has no money in the bank, but a fifty cents book in his hand, and a believe that his god is his only law he answers too, a bunch of jobless youngsters who are fed up with their government all over islamic worlds that did not care about themselves and willing to blow up themselves and others to make a statement...what statement? We have not managed evey one of us meslem, jew, christian, hindu, ....and others to make the world a better place for ourselves, our families, our neighbors, our fellow men and women to live...we have failed ourselves...and we have shamed our beliefs....for us all, we have to learn the hard way to appreciate the diversity of who we are...greed, self interest...and the belief of thinking that we are different is our weakness....America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the rest of the world....the thinking of the previous centries are finished and done....the new erra has begun....embrace it and integrate without integration we will fall one by one...so in brief fighting terrorism is fighting a never ending war....We must resolve it...otherwise, welcome to the enigma Israel and palestine have faced for generation now, a never ending war...a war of religion in disguise...

How about we stop calling it "terrorism". It's only terror-ism if you let it be. Our own government (U.S.) has dished out it's fair share of terrorism in the past decades. Read up on some of the authorized activities of the CIA and DoD task forces over seas.

Why do you think these people are attacking us? It's because at some point, at some time representatives of our country killed some of their people. We had this coming unfortunately.

You won't hear it televised when the U.S. kills thousands of innocents, but as soon as an American dies, it's head line news.

America wake up and get your head out of your butt and see how your government is screwing you over by helping to cause these problems!

What do you think would happen if the U.S. just cut itself off from the rest of the world? No more helping people, sending aid, fighting other peoples wars etc.. The world would complain and complain that we arent doing anything and telling us we should be doing something. The world would only get worse.

I personally think that people who live like these terrorist do and make other people suffer, innocent people suffer, should be dealt with harshly. Religion haha they say they are doing it for religion, i dont know i never heard of any stories that told us to go blow ourself up to kill as many people as we can... They think they are going to be with god or what ever they believe? If this is truly what they believe then Religion is the source of all evil and i hate those people...

I welcome this opportunity to speak up my mind in such an interesting topic. And I wish to see my comment posted. First of all, I would like to thank the posters who seem to be so open-minded and fair in thinking that their country is the cause of terrorism. In deed, I have always been thinking that the US people are as xenophobic as their government and very hateful to foreigners, and especially to Muslims. But their peaceful reactions these past years and based on what I read in this very article, I changed my mind to believe that it is the government which is rotten, not the people.
In deed, the word terrorism has become very widespread in the last decade for many reasons:
1- The imposed globalization and the end of the cold war.
2- US instigation and involvement in the Golf War against Iraq (so as to fuel war between the brother Arabs), and its financial, military and political back up,
3- The US encouragement and tremendous constant financial and political support of Israelis against the Palestinian civilians kids, women and old men.
4- The tremendously significant hydrocarbons reserves in the Arab World and US will to grab it alone with very cheap financial prices and very considerable human loss (the present war against Iraq), which is indeed the main reason for its invasion
5- The unfairness of the USA in its foreign policy with African and Middle-eastern countries
6- The high cost of life in the third world and the widespread of hanger, social problems, and unemployment, all that generated hatred to the fait accompli especially among young people who want to revenge against their governments, which most often are loyal to the USA,
7- The increased wave of racism and discrimination against immigrants from Muslim world and Africa in European countries and the States as well which urge even the third generation of immigrants to change their names from Arabic to non Arabic to be offered a job and better living conditions
8- The list is still too long (the ban of the veil, the Guantanamo inhuman conditions and treatment of prisoners, the proclaimed and public media and military wars against Muslims, the impoverishment of third world countries, the irrational exploitation of their wealth, among others are the root causes of this heinous wave of terrorist attacks against civilians everywhere even in the Muslim World (Egypt, Algeria, KSA, etc) in addition to Europe, and USA. These terrorists in deed understand nothing about Islam, which is derived from “peace and surrender”, and are striving to change the world with force to spread their supposedly Islamic ideas (which are contrary to the Islamic teaching from A to Z, i.e. completely). Me as a Muslim, I hate these killers of innocents like Bin Laden. Because their hidden aim is not to spread Islam, which as never been done with force as it is claimed, but rather with the force of conviction, of mind and peace.
So, to curb this heinous crimes and genocides, which nobody regardless of his religion, would accept, let’s cure and treat theses causes from their roots and be more tolerant toward the others and spread peace all over the world. Once again, cheers to the fair and peaceful American defenders, and thanks again for this opportunity to exchange ideas.

Peace is a thing of the past. Evil has corrupted the minds of men so far that we are beyond the point of no return. And no, religion isn't the cause. The American government doesn't care about the people in Iraq or even its own citizens. All they( the so called "leaders" of America) and all other world leaders care about is personal gain.

If they truly did care, why wouldn't they send aid to the genocide in Darfur? Or back in the early 90's in Rwanda where hundreds of THOUSANDS were killed in a matter of only a few months? Because they wouldn't make money off it. People have become blinded by evil, the blind leading the blind.

To anyone reading this and the very insightful posts before, i IMPLORE you to open your eyes and your mind to what is really going on in this world. America, learn who is truly running your country, the Illuminati. The human brain is the most powerful weapon on our planet, and knowledge is its ammunition.

After world war 2 the United States led an incredible process of re-building western Europe. If the Germans had won world war 2 we would all be slaves. Of course if you had some Jewish blood in you then you would be dead. Wake up people, America does make mistakes, but it has for the most part incredibly great intentions. I agree that the States should focus more on their own country but then lets face it, that will only make the rest of the world much weaker and it won't take long for America to become the greatest nation on earth once again. I hope America does become more selfish as I am tired of hearing all the anti American crap from everyone. And I am Canadian, we are lucky to have such a great neighbor.