Written by Richard Kane   

The events of the last year inoculated Americans somewhat against the idea that a huge response will solve the problem of terror. This is the first anniversary in a long time with the possibility of a huge tragic event not leading to an almost insane reaction. When 9/11 happened we expected a follow up. Dick Cheney and company asserting that it would cause far less dissent and a very assertive US foreign policy. The events since last Pearl Harbor Day were tragic but the sequence was perfect. Instead of at first the San Bernardino massacre, then Paris, followed by an attack on a Russian Egyptian tourist plane, the sequence instead was first a Russian tragedy, then Europe, then in Southern California.

Of course their were plenty of possible wake up calls since 9/11 such as holy shrines bombed during worship, funerals and hospital rooms attacked but Western orientation prejudice prevented the average American from noticing and diminishing feeling empathy for the victims. We are finally beginning to realize that terrorism is here to stay unless the entire UN unites to deal with it, or private agreement between nations, nothing the US can by itself could be adequate.

Trying to live better in a dangerous world is really possible. Some of the changes at very little financial cost, such as FedEx drop boxes, stamps and a mailbox at every airport screening areas. And very comfortable old fashioned phones for long airport delays. Special clothes for those now on the no-fly list so ones on the list can be screamed nude, special clothing provided for the flight, even their keys in a special key box. PS the NRA now has thanks to Obama's call for no fly zone lists preventing gun purchases, the NRA has reason to try to get them eliminated. Muslim women could be hired to pat down or observe female Muslim passengers. Drones can drop listening devices not bombs, and Guantanamo prisoners implanted with them surgically then let go.

If the US, due to immediate emergency, feels it must execute someone by drone attack, there should be an at least a secret quickie trial. If the authorities can't find a lawyer like the one the defendant would want, at least the defense lawyer should be paid minimum wage plus commissions for each execution he he gets delayed for at least 6 months. As long as Israel, China, and every similar country, and every big corporation as well, can spy on every American let's throw away privacy rights. Instead all information put in a vault and similar quickie courts for freedom of information requests. A court appointed advocate for freedom of information cases, again paid minimum wage plus commission for information released.

Every car equipped with a cell phone and free minutes, except a dollar a minute when the car is moving more than 3 miles and hour, and five dollars a minute when texting, drunk or aggressively driving. Guns legal but with a fee when not in a fingerprint locking box or gun holster with the camera running when in use. Perhaps the NRA fined for Gabrielle Gifford's attack because the shocked friend of the hallucinating perpetrator couldn't do anything legal about it when he witnessed his friend with a legal gun but only after President Obama is fined for defamation of character for claiming the recent perpetrators with illegal pipe bombs, that the NRA was someone responsible for the guns they had.

Perhaps if we make this a more comfortable world the solutions to the conflicts in this world would become easier.

Now that we know it will not be easy, that no politician by himself can change, perhaps we can make changes that may take years for the changes to take place.


Al Qaeda and ISIS are spreading the idea that the reason Muslims are not proud of their traditions, and that other people don't respect them is because the king is not asserting his God-given authority to require obedience to him and God, Many Sunni Muslims say yes but the solution is worse than the cost. However seminars including with the Japanese could include discussions on why Japanese woman mangle their faces with plastic surgery even though Japan gets all the international respect al Qaeda and ISIS is fighting for. In America after a concerted effort, a few but growing number of whites are trying to look black. It is possible for a future world where women even non-Muslims will put on a headscarf when trying to look pretty, but there is no way terror or punishment will make it happen.

Another long term change is that I remember 80 years ago when I was growing up it wasn't customary for people getting depressed and blaming others for their depression, then trying to take the rest of the world with them when they try to commit suicide. Perhaps trying to call murder-suicide perpetrators failures like we do suicide victims would help. In Afghanistan a terrorist with a down-syndrome mother sent his mother to market to sell vegetables in a suicide-vest with remote control detonation. This was classified as murder not suicide. When you see a picture of a proud 7-year-old year old child holding the head in his hands or a baby with a grenade the term brainwashed is frequently used. I think it is a mistake to stop using it with adults,
http://www.barenakedislam.com/2014/08/11/thats-my-boy-is-the-caption-on-a-twitter-photo-of-7-year-old-australian-boy-holding-up-the-decapitated-head-of-a-syrian-soldier/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3164999/ISIS-film-CHILD-carrying-beheading-time-Cub-Caliphate-seen-executing-prisoner-decapitation-terror-group-increasingly-use-boys-kill.html
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/isis-terrorists-release-shocking-image-5328228 '

Today it is something like those who have experienced great loss in ancient Japan falling on their swords. Violent efforts to stop terror won't change this, any more then violent efforts by al Qaeda and ISIS to force respect for Muslim customs either for fellow Muslims or the west. We can do better and we likely will.