Why do people say that the war against terrorists is un-winnable?

Question

I heard the liberals say that the first gulf war was un-winnable then they said that the invasion of Afghanistan was un-winnable then they said we would never unseat Saddam so far I would say their track record in predicting the outcome of wars is pretty bad.

Answer 1

as you seem to be so much in favor of war, i would imagine that you are true to your beliefs and are in uniform serving in either iraq or afghanistan. but i doubt you could even find the places on a map, much less that you are serving your country

Answer 2

Well, the only way to win the war on terrorism is to flatly reduce any new funding of extreme teaching anywhere in the world. Most of the money that gets thinly distributed is from middle east of coarse. Damn petro.

It's not winnable on merely a physical level....unless ones inclined to be crazy. It has to be done on multiple levels. It has to be financially squashed, morally squashed, and to some level physical squashed.

Extreme muslims have been around since it's inceptions, so it's not going away completely...for a long-time.

I'd say that some lefties live in fantasy worlds where the problem will solve itself ie they're often anti-ideas, rather than pro-positions. That's just a lack of intellectual assets, as it's easy to access the problem, but the difficulty is asserting methods and reasoning.

Answer 3

The Gulf War was won because the objective was to get Iraq out of Kuwait. I may not agree with all of the factors of that war, but it was "justifiable" in terms of the Geneva Conventions.

The war in Afghanistan is not over, and the Taliban Insurgency has been gaining momentum as of late.

The tragedy that is the Iraq War was successful in deposing Saddam but unsuccessful as a part of the "war on terror".

Why can't we win the war on terror? For the same reason that the Crusades were a disaster. We are fighting fundamentalists, that use an extremist view of their religion as justification for killing innocents. As long as we approach this "war" militarily and kill countless people, others will stand up and encourage other neighbors, family and friends to fight the very power that took their loved ones.

This is all about a misinterpretation of "eye for an eye", and is why Christ strongly opposed us taking vengeance into our own hands in this era. War is fought for greed, and that's why we can not militarily ever win the "war on terror". As long as there is HATE, there will always be terror.

Answer 4

I'm not sure anyone could say the 1st Gulf War was won. I, mean, we had to go back, right?
Afghanistan is not exactly over yet as the Taliban has been resurging.
As for Iraq, how could that be described as anything other than a massive, chaotic cluster.

Answer 5

properly, the only thank you to win the warfare on terrorism is to flatly shrink any new investment of severe coaching everywhere in the international. lots of the money that gets thinly disbursed is from midsection east of coarse. damn petro. that's not winnable on in user-friendly terms a actual point....till ones susceptible to be loopy. It should be performed on dissimilar ranges. It should be financially squashed, morally squashed, and to 3 point actual squashed. severe muslims have been around with the aid of fact that's inceptions, so that's not going away thoroughly...for a protracted-time. i could say that some lefties stay in delusion worlds the place the subject will remedy itself ie they're in lots of situations anti-concepts, quite than professional-positions. that's in basic terms a loss of psychological components, as that's user-friendly to get right of entry to the subject, however the subject is putting forward approaches and reasoning.

Answer 6

Because the U.S. will never have allies in the middle east, especially if we continue the way we have been. A lot of the Arabs see the US as invaders not as liberators as the government wants you to think. As long as we're trying to impose our ways on other cultures, we will continue to make enemies.

BTW Afghanistan is not completed and neither is Iraq, and I'm sure the situation in Lebanon is not helping to heal the wounds of our relationship with the middle east.

Answer 7

russia spent years in afganistan fighting bin laden who was supported by the U.S.A. in his struggle against his opium fields being destroyed .
THEN we messed with the fields and leaders and bin laden bombed us with our own planes .
WINNABLE what do you mean Iraq turned tail and ran after it set kuwaits fields on fire for slant drilling into its oil fields.
AND as far as un seating saddam we declared an illegal war on a nation of people against the wishes of the world ..
WHAT planet do you live on .
I might like it and join you if the world looks like that to you maybe i can see it your way too.
YOU can not stop a group of people who have for 5000 years kiddnaped and tortured and killed there neighbors , shake hands and become friends .
I do worry about your mental health some-days .
WIN a war against terrorists .ITS like preventing people from smoking pot .
SEE how that war is going .BANKrupting and demoralizing poor families is all it has done .
I remember a friend of mine had two suite cases filled with weed 10 years ago in his closet he is white and his dad is well conected and he got a years probation and drug classes for have a suit case when some narc got busted speeding with a bag turned him in .
SO you see the rich are different and the poor suffer .
SAME in the middle east rich shieks pay poor terrorists to make political statements .I bet they even gamble with each other on how many are killed in the bombings .

Answer 8

Well, it would be "winnable" :) if we would stop supplying them with so much military aid so they are not able to just fly over an innocent nation and bomb civilian housing at random. Pretty scary that people's lives are in the hands of such horrible monsters.

Answer 9

um... we haven't won in afghanistan. and the first gulf war resulted in... the current invasion of iraq so it definitely left something to be desired.

i believe a war against terrorists is unwinnable. as long as you have one person who is pissed off enough to be a terrorist you have not won it. as long as you keep eroding the rights of law abiding dissenters it will be a risk. it is a condition, not a disease. which means it can be treated, but is there a cure?

Answer 10

The "war" on terror needs to be a global effort to have any effect. The United States of America can not defeat every single terrorist on the planet all by ourselves, there is just no way.