I'v been on this site a couple of weeks now and i notice ............?

Question

that a lot of people think we should be out of the Middle East...........if that were to happen tommorow, and we were still being attacked by terrorist's....what do we do?

Answer 1

That's a good Question......

But you should take it one step further.............

People like to Blame Bush for the Worlds Problems,But what about before he took Office??

Terrorists have been killing Americans,Europeans,Asians,And Themselves Long before Most of us were Born........

To those who say Bush is to Blame..........

I would ask.........

How do you explain the 1st World Trade Center Bombing,and the Attack on the USS Cole?Clinton was President,So that Couldn't have been Bush's Fault.......
(there were more attacks,but do you see the Point?)

Anyone remember the 1980's?

I do....................

Can anyone explain all the Terrorist attacks,and Skyjackings??

Or was that Bush's Fault too???????????

No we need to Stay the Course and Fight these Bastards over there.....................

If we don't,These Radical Muslims will have no Problems bringing their fight here to our soil,killing as many civillians as they can......................

It's really a Shame people don't understand that...............

Answer 2

The simple answer is yes. Many terrorist organisations in the Middle East do not simply want to remove Western forces from the East but, as part of their mandate, wish to destroy the Western people, and replace with an Islamic Government/Dictatorship etc.

If Western forces left the East, then terrorist attacks on Western soil would become more frequent; attacks on companies with Western connections or ownership would be attacked until they left; and any Western person would have to leave. Basically, until the West is destroyed or the terrorist organisations, it will not end.

Answer 3

Invading Iraq did not make us safe from terrorism. It is inevitable that acts of terrorism are going to happen. The mindset of the terrorist does not discriminate they hate anyone opposed to them equally. Until 9/11 the United States hadn't experienced a international terrorist attack. Our response was to invade Iraq a sovereign nation and displace it's Government. We now have countries like Israel using the same tactic with Lebanon under the guise of displacing the terrorist faction Hezbollah. What we've done is exactly what terrorists want us to do. We've turned on sovereign nations and declared the death of civilians worth the cost of the war on terror. All of this and we've still not apprehended Osama Bin Laden while several other terrorist factions have hit on civilians. We can't leave the Middle East now if we do the Government in Iraq would fall under the influences of terrorists. All we've done is divide sovereign nations over terrorist factions. The Lebanon Government will support the terrorist faction that Israel is retaliating against. The United States will support Israel while Iran and North Korea build there nuclear weapons. Also Iran will support Hezbollah which allows a mediator to be a terrorist group with Iran and Lebanon. We've only strengthened terrorist factions by attacking sovereign nations. I wish we could but we can't leave now the country it was once volatile but now it's unstable as well. It makes perfect sense Lebanon won't displace Hezbollah they've been far more supportive then the United States or Israel to their cause. Until now Israel invading Lebanon over terrorists would have been a problem but America opened that box with Iraq. I think most people question the motives and intelligence that brought us into the Middle East. This is why they want us out. All of this has done nothing to defeat terrorists they are probably held up in hotels laughing at us as we tear nations apart over their presence. As we blow up children targeting civilian houses they stay in for that very reason. We've given them exactly what they want, we've become like them. We now negotiate with rockets and empty words while children die and we justify it.

Answer 4

Sure a lot of people want us out of the middle east but the truth of the matter is.. were not going to leave there.. When those planes slammed into those towers and the Pentagon, that was an act of war. The United States has always fought it's wars over seas (since the civil war) and its not a country were at war with right now. It's a culture! Believe it.. were in this one for the long haul. We should be happy we have the President we do. This is no time to puss out!

Answer 5

Hi Viv, the question should be, If we don't get out of the middle east soon, what do we have left here to protect our country? Our troops are spread out all over the world, with just a skeleton military her at home. I thought about this same thing last night and my God its scary. I wondered how those Innocent people sleep, eat carry on a daily life and not knowing if they may die in the next blink of an eye.
We should be the ones afraid, we are her and it would not take much to bomb or invade the USA. We would literally be caught with our pants down.
I feel that we should get all our military personnel back home, let them protect our soil and people. Ant not to sound heartless, but lets let those other countries solve their own problems. How is our president to be trying to force our ways of government on other countries. Heck we can't even feed, house, medically care for our own people, why? should we be spending billions of dollars to feed, house, and medically care for another nations people!!

Answer 6

terrorism is a much tougher question than simply having a presence in the middle east. state sponsored terrorism is rampant in many parts of the world, and cannot be stopped until the rest of the world enacts a "zero tolerance" attitude toward it. as long as terrorists have nothing to lose and fear/destruction to gain, they have no downside. it's time to give them one. they strike terror, they get struck back. the only difference is that the non-terrorist world has to unite in that response. i'd like to think human beings as a race will get beyond the need to blow things up instead of hit a compromise/bargaining table and reach a lasting solution. it might take a stronger show of force to get there...like trying to discipline a bad child who refuses to obey regardless. eventually escalation will hit a point where someone wins, either parent or child. in the case of terrorism, the world can no longer afford to let the terrorists succeed.

Answer 7

Very hard to say - The Problem is that terrorists arn't like an army - moving in defined ways with conventions & orders to follow - they are usually determined people with a political agenda - they live with civilians & attack with everything they have. How can you stop something like that without commiting genocide? If that was me - send in the special forces - kill the leaders, stop the wars & get people talking... But the one thing that should be stopped - Religeon! - Its the cause for 90% of all wars - get rid of that & you get rid of most of the tensions...

Answer 8

"...a lot of people think we should be out of the Middle East."

Ignore them. We will need some form of a presence in the ME for a long time. Afghanistan and Iraq are budding democracies that will need protection in a rough neighborhood. There are nations in the arena that are set on not letting this effort succeed. If democracy does take hold and people can share ideas and opinions in open debate, then the radical elements will be sidelined.

Answer 9

i have grown up with terror all my life im english like you.

im from manchester ive seen my city blown apart by the IRA did we in revenge get the RAF to blow northern ireland to bits no we did not we carried on trying the diplomatic route attacking countries with military force does not rid us of of terrorists it creates more.

especially in the middle east where it it creates hate towards the west for intefearing in other countries policies.

where was america when british soldiers were being blown up and killed in ireland il tell you they where funding the THE IRA they were buying thier semtex and bullets.

then suddenly america has its first terrorist attack on its mainland suddenly its not just someone elses problem and whooo everyones a terrorist and we all have to have a war on terrorism well welcome to the party USA about 50 years to late yet again.

if they had helped us in the second world war in the 1st 2 years they probably would have saved about 10 million lives but as usual it had nothing to do with them untill the japanees attacked them.

Answer 10

20 years ago a fire in a nuclear reactor at Chernobyl demonstrated that it would be impossible to have a local nuclear war. As that fact sunk in, the super powers finally sorted out their differences.

40 years earlier, Robert Oppenheimer was working on the world's first atomic bomb that might possibly have caused a chain reaction entirely destroying the world. But, as the Nazis had embarked on the destruction of the Jews, it didn't matter.

Today we routinely see Islamic fundamentalists on suicide missions.

So, two opposing sides with a total disregard for life. Two sides sharing the Old Testament eye-for-an-eye sense of justice.

Should we be saving for our old age?