A new challenge for the USA

I love History and I believe that the knowledge of History is very important to know who we are and why we act / react the way we do.

One example is how the cultural heritage of the colonizers persist throughout the ages.

The USA was colonized primarily for people in search for a haven where they can follow their beliefs (religions), this is why the first amendment (the freedom of speech) is so important for the USA. But recently this fundamental foundation of the American nation has been shaken by the Fear (the fear of terrorism). Can the notion of first American settlers and the Founding Fathers be supressed by the Fear of an idea the Americans know very little?

The Americans have not realized that they are not fighting a war against a Nation, a race or religion, although the media and the majority of the American intellectuals think the opposite. Terrorism does not mean the Arabs, the muslim world or the Al-Queda, it is in fact a means to the end.

IMHO they should look at why someone chooses terrorism as an act and try to reinforce other means to achieve the same objectives.

Besides fighting against terrorist organizations, they should enfasize organizations that adopt other more peaceful means, one example is the peaceful Tibetan resistence led by His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet.

In the Merriam Webster dictionary terrorism means: the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion.

They are fighting against power coercion (to be more precise: against one of the ways power can be exercised - with terror).

The paradox: in fighting against Terrorism, the current administration can be generating terrorism!!! Therefore in this case they have to fight against themselves!

But somehow the word has been obliterated to the meaning of all the US enemies that uses a violent method besides diplomacy or straight war confrontation.