Who prevents terrorism more, the troops in Iraq, or our intelligence agents who seek terrorists everywhere.?

Answer 1

The troops in Iraq CREATE terrorist. Thanks to BushCo's invasion, Iraq is now a giant recruitment poster for al-Qaida! As much of an evil jerk as Saddam was, there were fewer terrorist there BEFORE we showed up. Invading sovereign nations and bombing their infrastructure to rubble while attempting to force our political system and values upon them will not defeat terror. Terror must be defeated via a cooperative, global anti-terrorist network involving law enforcement and government intelligence agencies of not only our country, but those of our allies and...oh wait, I just remembered...thanks to BushCo we hardly have any allies anymore. Oh well...

Answer 2

Intelligence by far, not even close. Our troops are over there because Saddam has WMD's remember.

Our intelligence warned Bush a hundred times about Bin Laden, but Bush had other things to do. If Bush listens to Intell then there's no 9/11. Of course no 9/11 means no big contracts for Bush's friends. Also no Halliburton contract which would piss off Cheney.

Answer 3

Neither, really. Troops increase aggression. Intelligence agents make us look more dastardly.

The best way to fight terrorism is to win the minds of the terrorists. Terrorists don't fight for some reason most countries do. No, they fight because they have strong beliefs and if we are going to play into their hands, we're not thinking.

Answer 4

The intelligence agents and all of the secret ops that we'll probably never know about.

I have nothing but love for our troops, but man... their boss, the commander in chief, sure is a dummy.

Answer 5

Intelligence services. Counterterrorism has become their primary task.

US Intelligence - CIA

As changing global realities have reordered the national security agenda, CIA has met these challenges by:

Creating special, multidisciplinary centers to address such high-priority issues such as nonproliferation, counterterrorism, counterintelligence, international organized crime and narcotics trafficking, environment, and arms control intelligence.

Forging stronger partnerships between the several intelligence collection disciplines and all-source analysis.

Taking an active part in Intelligence Community analytical efforts and producing all-source analysis on the full range of topics that affect national security.

Contributing to the effectiveness of the overall Intelligence Community by managing services of common concern in imagery analysis and open-source collection and participating in partnerships with other intelligence agencies in the areas of research and development and technical collection.

Jordanian Security Service - (GID)

GID's strategy is manifested in accordance with its Law and acting legislation in the Kingdom to protect the National Security from any targeting through executing the following duties:

Collecting and analyzing information and presenting it to the decision-maker.

Countering ideological sabotage which, in turn, generates material sabotage, in addition to encountering any attempts to infiltrate the Jordan society.

Countering physical sabotage, and terrorism in all its kinds, targets and sources.

Countering espionage.

Following-up corruption and ill-legal trade through specialized Anti-Corruption Directorate established in 1996.

UK Intelligence - MI5
The Security Service, more commonly known as MI5, is the UK's security intelligence agency. It is based in Thames House, London. The Director General of the Security Service is Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller.

Responsibilities

We are responsible for protecting the country against covertly organised threats to national security. These include terrorism, espionage and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. In addition we provide security advice to a range of other organisations, helping them reduce their vulnerability to the threats.

Germany - BND

The BND is supervised by the Parliamentary Control Commission (PKK) for the intelligence services.

The Law on Combating Crime, which was adopted in 1994, authorizes the BND to tap telecommunications lines only for foreign intelligence collection. However the Law authorizes the BND to pass to prosecutors information obtained from tapping international phone calls in connection with certain serious crimes such as arms dealing, drug trafficking, or terrorism. The originally planned provision that the intelligence service could be involved in investigations at the request of the prosecution authorities was not incorporated in the final legislation.

The BND has supported legislation banning encoding or encrypting in telecommunications, argueing that such a ban is indispensable for successful intelligence collection.

Answer 6

To me that is like asking the question, "Which foot do I use more to walk , my right or my left?"