Racial Warfare

        Comparing modern war on terrorism with all previous wars based on the movie “Zero Dark Thirty”, I think the key difference is the involvement of intelligence and the random of detention of people with brown skin. It is not that previous wars did not involve intelligence, but the amount of agents that are working for targeting and strategic calculation is more than the soldiers who actually execute the plan. Like in the movie, there is only one seal squad and one single operation that carries out the plan, but the plan itself took more than 129 day to be completed; which unlike previous wars, the soldiers mostly did the job, with minor strategic calculations, and focus more on reacting to whatever happened to each individuals or teams. The other aspect is the racial aspect, the US only kill Arabs and the Al Queda only kill westerners, these activities only increase hatred and nothing was actually accomplished. “One is killed because another was killed”, said by Dr. Sun, the founder of the republic of China(Taiwan), this saying could be extended for racial issues, in previous wars, one is killed, and hatred grew in a limited amount of people that knew the dead person. However, in war on terrorism, hatred grew in a large entity of people, such as Arabs and westerners; not that these two races are programmed by someone or some government, but in terms of human nature, specifically favoritism, the same race tend to have more sympathy toward their own kind; hence, when seeing their own kind got killed, regardless of religion, beliefs or nationality, one would hate whoever did that, and in war on terrorism, a specific race is hated.