System Thinking - The Root Causes of Issues

System thinking is looking for the root causes of issues, rather than the superficial aspects. A lot of people get caught up in the flashy and emotional superficial aspects; system thinkers can see through that. Another great example of this is with terrorism. The republicans pull out the old red herring, all the terrorists are coming to kill us and blow us up and all this. But what are the root causes? What actually causes terrorism? Let's take a look at thatd o, that's islam. That's just islam. We got to get rid of islam. No, that's not it. It's not that superficial. It goes a lot deeper than just islam