Is America safer after invading Iraq or have we stirred the hornets nest creating new threats of terror?

Answer 1

NO!

Answer 2

George W. Bush and his group of so-called "neo-cons" have creeated a new focus for terrorism and replaced a non-religious, stable (if venal and corrupt) administration with anarchy, chaos and intercommunal strife. To imagine that the US Army would be met with garlands of flowers and that democracy would flourish and that the cost of the whole adventure would be paid for with oil that the USA would control was naive, dangerous and a return to imperialist thinking.

It seems that Bush's motivations were both religious (he did not mis-speak when he said "Crusade") and financial (he has worked hard to create a New Aristocracy of a kind not seen since pre-Great Gatsby years: super-rich elite and a shrunken middle class). His idea of Shock and Awe was bizarre. Only by eliminating the whole body of human rights law and international humanitarian law and going back to what the Spanish did in Latin America and the Belgians in the Congo and the Americans in the Indian wars could he have hoped to succed: reall terror, amputating feet and hands of those who resist, wiping out whole populations with disease and (now) weapons of mass destruction.

Bush -- and even more so Cheney -- have pretended that Saddam had something to do with terror in and/or against the USA. Saddam Hussein had visions of been the new Saladin, but his "terror" was limited to his own people. If the USA is bent on spreading democracy around the world and upsetting dictatoriships it is on a fool's mission. Anyway the USA has never had such a goal: other things being equal, it prefers stable fascist dictatorships that serve its own economic interests -- its intervention has not often been pro-democracy. One wonders whether having the USA as sole superpower is good for humanity. But never mind: the USA is headed towards bankruptcy, as a Federal Reserve official has conceded. (Bear in mind it was insolvency -- not directly anything that the USA did -- that caused the collapse of the Soviet empire after 1990. And: rising oil prices help Russia and the Islamists, not the USA.)

Answer 3

The hornets nest was already stirred up, as was shown by 9-11. We just killed some of the bees.

Answer 4

I dont think were going to contol what is going on and resolve it ,when they have taught their children to hate us.I do hope for the soldiers and others saftey and it to be over and peace soon.

Answer 5

they have been attacking us before bush he is just trying to kill as many as we can we cant just stick our heads in the sand and hope they leave us alone we need to kill them or they will kill us

Answer 6

you goota atart somewhere.
enlighten dont you have an original answer or are you just a sheep?

Answer 7

you said it all