Why do people resort to terrorism?

It is not people per se. It is a belief structure that is driven to fanantical levels. Once that level of belief is achieved, nothing seems wrong with promoting all aspects of it.

Part of that belief structure is that those who do not believe in the same way are "infidels" and should be killed in any manner possible in order to cleanse the earth of their existence. There are actually people within the sane sector of our society who think we can reason with these people...sorry Charlie! These are people who are so over the top with fanaticism that they will lay down their lives for those who promote it in just about any manner...just as the kamikaze pilots did for Japan in WWII.

Terrorism is an effect tool if it achieves its primary goal and that is to strike paralyzing fear into the hearts and minds of those you are attacking. Once they become disfunctional, their society begins to erode in chaos and it becomes easier and easier to make head way against them. If we fear terrorists, we play into their hands.

The object of our strategy is to make them fear us and we should do it as often as we possibly can. WB.

Because they have come to feel powerless to make change happen in normally accepted channels and ways. So, then, feeling there is no other choice, and feeling absolute in the rightness of their cause or argument, they will rationalize that there is no cost too great to demand in pursuit of their cause.

Terrorism isn't always religious, and its not always suicide bombing either. People engage in terrorism, or politically motivated violence, to get their message across. Terrorism isn't about the act itself and the terror it causes, its about the target and effect it leaves after.

For example, in Iraq, a suicide bomber blows himself up at a police station while people are queuing up to join. Its not about those who get killed on the day, its about the statement that they reject the police force of the state, and if you join the police, you become a target. The effect will be that theres fewer people in the queue next time.

Theres no simple explanation, but its usually just the perpetrators method of getting his point across.

They feel they have no other choice or they have been convinced that what they are doing is right!

It's simple. Faith. They are brainwashed into believing that some god wants them to do these things.It's amazing how strong faith can be.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.