How is The War on Terrorisim wrong?

Question

I want to know how anyone-knowing about 9/11 and seeing the pics of the victims and heros-can say that the war on terrorisim is wrong. We are fighing for our rights. What are we suppposed to do? Sit back and take terrorisim. If we don't do something about terrorists, who will?

Answer 1

It's not wrong, and after reading some of the answers here, I just don't get some Americans.

Answer 2

You're regurgitating propaganda. There was no connection between al-queda and Iraq or Saddam, no WMDs, no imminent threat from Iraq. We are not safer from warring against terrorists. We have become the bullies of the world. Terrorism is nothing new. It's just being presented to you in new terms for political goals.

Of course, we should fight terrorism, just not the way we have been. Putting 130,000 troops on the ground in a Middle Eastern country is generating more terrorists than anything else we could do. It's exactly the reason Bin Laden declared war on the United States following the first Iraq war. You can disrupt terrorists without invading a country. Afghanistan, of course, may have been a different case because the country was run by terrorists.

Answer 3

The war on terror is a good thing. The problem is that the Bush Administration stopped fighting terrorists and started picking fights with sovereign nations. No one will argue with you on what we did in Afghanistan (not even the French). But after that, the fat cats in DC started using 9/11 to further their own adgendas (Democrats included). If it were truly a war on terror. That crap that just went down between Hezbollah and Isreal never would have happened because the United States would have already annialated Hezbollah. Do not forget that up until 9/11 Hezbollah had in fact killed more Americans then any other terrorist group. If it is a war on terror why have we not kicked in the teeth of the palestinians. They elected a terrorist group to be their representative government. Why have we not taken on the Islamic radicals in the Philipines, Chechnya, or Iran(not the Iranian government but the Muhadeen-a-kaliq who were supported by Saddam in order to topple the Iranian government.)

As far as the freedoms go, we the people, have been punished for the acts of others by our own governments. You need a credit check to get a job, six forms of ID to open a bank account or get a driver's lisence, anal probes to get through security in the airport, wire taps, two wars, and billions of our tax money spent on a war we did not want. What is bin Laden doing? same thing he was doing on September 10th 2001. living in a cave hiding from the united states.

Worst of all our administration has used the war on terror to justify everything it has done including inadvertantly kicking off another nuclear arms race.

so its not the war on terror but the actions taken under its guise which have anyone paying attention up in arms.

Answer 4

The war on terrorism is conducted wrong. Doing things in the wrong way makes the problem worse not better.

First of all, it is wrong to put so much public emphasis on the war on terror. That serves the terrorists more than anti-terrorist forces as people become hypersensitive to any act that can be called terrorism. In which makes terrorism more effective. Our politicians are responsible for this action.

Second we need to stop tying the war on terror to every crime and every country that opposes us or is nutral. The "you are with us or agianst us" loses friends and creates more enemies than we can afford. Iraq still hasn't been tied to the war on terror in fact, despite the president's best attempts to do so.

Third the war on terror cannot be carried out by bombing whole towns and fields. The air raids in Afgahnistan are causing civilain problem and enemies in that country. Air raids in afghanistan has only proven to help the taliban and terrorist groups gain control of areas in that country. Iraq has an identical problem. A quarter of the people there believe that killing a US soldier is good, mostly due to the number of civilians that the US has accidentally killed in operations. In some areas in Iraq everyone has a friend that has been killed by a US soldier or Iraqi soldier trained by US forces in the past couple years.

It isn't the case were the war on terror is wrong. It is the case right now were the war on terror has badly fell on its face.

Answer 5

It's funny how everyone thinks there are only two choices: fight a war on terrorism or just sit there and take it. There are always other choices. Has anyone ever considered sitting down with one of these people and asking them what they want? Of course not, because that wouldn't be macho. That's GAY!

How do we know that the stuff these groups want isn't something that we're perfectly willing to give them?

Certainly, it's a bad idea to look into a camera and tell the terrorists to "bring it on."

Answer 6

We have gone from being the target of some whacko jihadists to being reviled the world over for waging illegal and immoral wars with no justification. 9-11 and the war in Iraq have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Even the Bush administration is admitting that now.

The United States of America used to stand as a beacon of fairness, democracy and hope. We have now become a nation that lies to start wars, uses torture to subdue it's foes, lowers taxes on the very richest among us while slashing services for the very poorest and our military heroes, and citizens allow themselves to get bogged down in issues that don't matter while voting a murderer back into office. Wake up!!!

Answer 7

I don't think that the War on Terror is wrong at all. We don't want to ever see another 9|11 type attack on our homeland again. If we take it we'll only be seen as weaker so the terrorists will just continue to bring on the attacks. So we take a few more precations before boarding planes, and we've got more restrictions on things that never used to be restricted, but what it really comes down to is being dead or alive.

Answer 8

A "War on Terrorism" is not necessarily wrong in the abstract. Attacking Iraq and killing people that had nothing to do with 9/11 is thought by many to be wrong. Going after Taliban and Al Queda in Afganistan correct.

Answer 9

Because Iraq is very very loosely connected to 9/11. We should have a war on al-Qaeda, not terrorism. You can't win a war on terrorism. It's like the war on drugs or poverty. Can't be completed.

Bush needs to use more resources to go after and dismantle al-Qaeda. He's had some success, but he's put too much money in Iraq which arguably is not "an immediate threat."

Answer 10

Those aren't the only choices - "war on terrorism" or sit and take it. Is it looking like the neoconservative or Bush approaches are succeeding? If not, then consider that there may be other solutions. Also consider whether there's only one kind of terrorist with only one kind of objective (to kill us). For example, Hezbollah in Lebanon wanted some land back and an exchange of prisoners from Israel, Al Qaeda's demand before 9-11 was for the US to get it troops out of Saudi Arabia. Bin Laden, in tapes for several months before 9-11 said he would strike the US if we didn't get out. Guess what, he struck, but then we removed those troops! Palestinian terrorists want vengeance against Israel and its supporters but mainly they want land back. Some are religious terrorists, but by treating this as a war global war against Islam, it may just become that as Muslims radicalize to fight back.

Answer 11

Well let's see the war on Iraq is wrong for one thing...considering that Iraq is not responsible for the attacks of 9/11. Afghanistan is the country responsible, Osama Bin Laden to be more specific. Secondly the reason we went to war with Iraq was to uncover these so called "weapons of mass destruction" Oh yeah, then we never found them, five years later Bin Laden is still zipping around while thousands of American soldiers are being sent over to Iraq to kill and be killed. It's all so disgusting, I am ashamed to have President Bush represent our country. I wish I was Canadian.