How many Atheist are for the War on Terror?

Question

If not, how do you think the U.S. should protect it's innocent?

This is a copy cat question from one asked earlier in the R & S section asking why Christians are for it. (which most don't love the idea, they except it) I'd like your point of view and why you think it's wrong.

So many excellent answers, I can't even begin to pick a best...(though there where a few BAD answers...LOL) I'm going to put this to a vote and see what you all think. Oh and by the way, I in no way support the war, I also think we know where OBL is, and continue to do nothing to stop him.

He supposedly has a million dollar finders fee on his head, and it's obvious that several people are helping him...Greed is thicker than water, There is no doubt someone has turned him in, and nothing was done.

Answer 1

The War On Terror isn't a war, it's a catch phrase. It's designed so that it will never be won, it's supposed to go on forever in order to keep the weak minded (i.e. conservatives) afraid.

Bush himself said it would never be won.

Answer 2

I am an atheist and here is my view on the War on Terror. Or, rather, how it was already a war way before 9/11. This is MY opinion. Not from a religious standpoint. It has nothing to do with the fact that I am an atheist. But you asked



1968 Robert Kennedy's assination

1979, the US embassy in Iran

1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon

1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up

1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked

1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens

1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed

1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time

1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed

9/11/2001, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as
missiles to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed. All of these acts were done by muslim extremeists.

Muslim extremeists Have been at "war" with America since 1968. Almost 40 years. I in no way condone the terrorist attack on 9/11, it was a horrible time in Ameriacan history. But if you look at it from a military standpoint, they were fighting a battle. Thats all it was. The arguement that they didnt target military targets is not worth wasting your breath over. They did. The Pentagon. The biggest group of military advisors in the world were there. As to the WTC, that was to cripple the financial centers of the US. Which is exactly what war is about. Military and finances. In every war there have been and still are civilian casualties. It cant be avoided. These terrorist did take it way too far but in thier own minds they were at war and they picked several targets and waged the battles in the only way they could

Answer 3

The war on terror is a blatant lie fed to the masses to disguise the exploitation of our country. How can you have a war on terror? Who is the enemy? What is the goal? How do you prosecute a war on an emotion?

The best way to end this conflict is to stop for a second and understand why we were attacked on 9/11 and then make decisions based on that intelligence. Instead we go after Saddam and Iraq and ignore bin Laden and Afghanistan. We sit and defend Israels horrible actions and wonder why so many in the Middle East hate us. We exploit other people for their oil, we support some dictators but not others, we deny civil liberties in our own country and then try and force others to follow our example as a democracy. It is hard to stop people from hating the US when our leaders do their best to undermine us as a country.

Answer 4

I'm an Atheist and I think that we should protect the US by not creating more conflict than there already is. Claiming there are 'weapons of mass destruction' (though proven there weren't and we have much more weapons of mass destruction than any other nation) and viewing Iraqi's, Arabs, and almost all Middle Eastern people as barberians, interfering with other countries' rivalries (like Vietnam and Israel) is not protecting the US. We claim to be such a powerful nation and think we should "help" other nations when really, we're only bringing harm to ourselves.
Getting revenge is 5th grade stuff and it should stay there, not in the government.

Answer 5

i dont, the reason:
a war on terrorism is an oxymoron. you cannot kill at by killing the beliving people. all that does in the end is makes more of that people. say for instance that you and you dad had guns. your dad was killed by the neborhood bully, who was about twice your size. he had a better gun, but you could hide easly. you could duck behind things that he couldent. you were faster and had a better reason than him to kill. what would the average enraged person think. oh by the way all of your dads friends are already planning to kill the bully. they ask you to help them. they tell you it is their gods idea to take revenge on this jerk. so you then decide to go after this bully. he has his own friends though, and you have to fight smart to win over them. little do you know that your father killed the bullies bro first. so you fight and try to kill this guy, but you must be smarter and hide when you know you will lose. if you are killed your two brothers will avenge you. if they are killed they will be avenged by to others, etc...

this is why the idea of physically fighting terrorism will not work. we cannot kill in order to win, because we would in the end have to kill everybody who acts this way, which in the end would include us.

we are by definition organized terrorists. we responded to 9\11 by taking down afganistan, and iraq.

Answer 6

I think that invading Iraq was a gigantic blunder from the first order. 3000 of our military got killed 65000 maimed for life.
It is and was morally wrong for me as an atheist and and it should be for any xian for that matter. I cry for all those good people's sacrifice. As an retired military man I feel I have a right to speak on behalves of my fellow military.
Bush squandered our good will in the world in 5 years, I cry for that to.

Answer 7

We could of provided food and clean drinking water for much of the world for what we spent in Iraq. I'm all for killing terrorist, But not so sure on securing oil at the expense of American men and women.

Answer 8

The "war on terror" as being conducted is counterproductive to the stated purpose.

"Terrorists" are criminals and will never be defeated by bombing anything or anyone.

Invading other nations to defeat "terrorism" is similar to fornicating to promote virginity.

The "war on terror" should be called "war on US taxpayers' bank accounts and assets of future generations."

Law enforcement agencies have been dealing with criminals since they were invented and it continues to be their responsibility to deal with "terrorists."

GWB is as much a terrorist as OBL.

Answer 9

I'm not an athiest, but I'm agnostic, and I'm for the war on terror.

I think too few people want to come to grips with the insanity that is the enemy. They truly are anti-freedom, and unless you want to be one of them, you better be against them.

Answer 10

I am for the invasion of Afghanistan, I am against the invasion of Iraq simply because it was a country we had control over, and had no terroists. We shouldve wiped Iran and Syria off the map then said 'what the what?" to Egypt, Saudia Arabia, Pakistan and the other problem countries that were left.

Answer 11

I think there are many atheists on both sides of the question. For example, many Jews are supporters of the war on terror, and many Jews are atheists. A majority of physicist.s are probably atheists, and I'm sure many of them support the war on terror