When is VT (victory over terrorists) day? Will there be a ticker tape parade?
2006-08-23 22:23:22 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
What day did we win "the war on drugs". I forget.
2006-08-23 22:32:13 · update #1
aubry65355:
where are we at with that, percentage wise?
2006-08-24 07:33:33 · update #2
Can't be won. Just like the war on drugs, war on poverty...
We just mumble a half-baked declaration of victory and move on to the next war.
Next war? War on fat I'll bet.
2006-08-23 22:35:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
There's no "war on terror". That's just a slogan. We are not at war. Thomas Friedman clearly explained this in his August 16th column (sources). Furthermore, we're too engaged in Iraq to make any headway against global terrorism. The Iraq fiasco will be the big campaign issue in the 2008 Presidential election...and in the 2012, and possibly the 2016 as well, barring other major fiascos before then.
The American right wing is united in support of a mistake.
2006-08-23 22:37:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am all for speeding it up. I think we should deliver a couple of well placed nukes. We need to kill at least a couple of million jihadists and their supporters, to include men women and children. The muslimes are all a scourge on the planet. After that is done, they should be firmly warned that there is more where that came from and if they don't behave, we will do it again. It worked on the Japanese! We have got to stop playing pattie cake with these terrorists! Kill the dern varmints, or there will never be peace!
2006-08-23 23:43:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
To win either war we will have to fight them with everything we have, not half hearted measures, as we do now. I have been involved in the "war on drugs" for years now. We arrest the same dealers and suppliers over and over and over and over. It takes them less time to post bail than it does to process the paper work on the arrest. What a joke. If we want to win the war on terror then were going to have to kill every member of every terrorist organization we can find in any country we find them in. Period
2006-08-23 22:42:34 · answer #4 · answered by mark g 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Terror stems from belief gone awry. One cannot bomb the belief out of people unless they are all killed physically, but that would be a genocide of unprecedented scale. And i am sure that you as a thinking being do not want to suggest that.
We have to win the hearts and the minds of people and that is not done by bombing them. That is done by diplomacy, by being good neighbors and by respecting people. The Bush junta has none of those traits.
2006-08-24 00:19:56 · answer #5 · answered by The answer man 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The war on terror is a concept that is bound to fail, because ultimately it will have no end.
You don't get people to change their mind by trying to kill them. If anything, that gets them to firm their resolve, and want to fight even harder. And in destroying people's lives and futures, we are assuring that the next generation of Jihadists are just around the corner.
At what point do we become the hated and feared enemy who, in our quest to eradicate all of the terrorists, become the terrorists ourselves?
2006-08-23 22:37:41 · answer #6 · answered by ... 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think your question might be rhetorical. One person I know says that we'll never be able to kill all of these monsters, so why try at all? Silly argument: When I see a roach in my kitchen (an apt comparison!), I kill it. I don't say "Well, there will just be more of them, so why bother?" On a side note: I do believe other methods should be used to combat terrorists such as diplomacy; global economic and political fairness, non-imperialistic foreign policies. But these methods should be used IN ADDITION TO killing as many terrorists as possible, not IN PLACE OF killing these monsters.
2006-08-23 22:34:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
To answer this question, this war cannot be won. by definition it cannot be won, a war on terror cannot be won, a peace on terror might!
In response to astorianyc, you say we should kill as many terrorists as possible in order to end terrorism along with other measures and you claim this is like killing cockroaches.
I disagree, killing a cockroach does not create more cockroaches. It takes one from the total number of cockroaches thus reducing the amount of cockroaches left to kill. Yes there are still plenty of cockroaches, but a finite amount and less than before one was killed.
Killing terrorists creates MORE terrorists, as their relatives and friends and supporters take up arms in retribution. Leaving more terrorists to kill. Leaving you further from victory.
You can clear out a cockroach colony by killing cockroaches, but you cannot kill terrorism by killing terrorists. you don't even reduce terrorism by killing terrorists. You create MORE torrorists.
There is no road TO peace. Peace IS the road.
2006-08-23 22:50:09 · answer #8 · answered by kenhallonthenet 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
As long as it takes. There better be a ticker tape parade for them too, yes.
2006-08-23 22:26:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It will never happen. We'll never get all the terrorists. There probably will be a parade claiming we did though.
2006-08-23 22:30:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋