Research Project

I've started a project for a class I'm taking:

Imperialism/Colonialism is frequently cited as the "root cause" of terrorism. If that is the case, then I should be able to take a map of the world as it exists today and overlay it with maps of the world in the 19th century and 20th century to about the mid-1970s and the end of wars in Vietnam, Algeria, and other former colonial possessions reflecting the vast expanses dominated by the empires of the French, British, Americans, Belgians, etc and former colonies and current terror exporters ought to pretty neatly line up.

Since neither Laos or India nor much of Sub-Saharan Africa are noted for exporting terrorism (for purposes of this project terrorism is defined as targetting civilian populations of former colonial powers with violence) I'm pretty confident that the evidence doesn't support the "root cause" claim. The Phillippines were a possession of the US for a good bit of the 20th century; how may Filipinos have been trying to blow up stuff in the US?

What was that loud noise?

Oh, never mind it was just the Religion of Peace... in Egypt and London. Where next?

People are going to get the idea that Islam isn't really that peaceful if this keeps up...

Letters of Marque

I'm sure there has to be a way to make use of the idea of Letters of Marque in the "War on Terror". Identify the assets of the enemy and allow them to be seized or destroyed by private citizens. There are doubtless all sorts of complications which might make it difficult to keep things from getting out of hand, but I don't see any reason why particular entitities shouldn't be subjected to the predations of the anonymous US citizen. Allow and encourage hackers to crack Islamic fundamentalist bank accounts without penalty etc.

Note toSelf

I need to post more often than once in a month...

It has been a busy month though. Built two model airplanes, traveled a couple weeks, lots of work, etc. One owuld think I'd have plenty to post here. Guess I need to work on that.