America can not win the war on terror?

Question

not until they understand there part in the problem

Answer 1

One issue with the "War on Terror" is that "terror" is being applied to many more activities and organisations than ever before.
Now media groups are said to be "terrorists" for spreading propaganda
Countries that disagree with US foriegn policy are sometimes labelled as "terror"ist countries.
An issue that we have in England is the Government is arguing that anyone who contests its internal or external security policy is simply trying to undermine the fight on terror.

Saying that something is "part of the fight against terror" "you're with us or against us" makes it very difficult to have sensible engaged discussion.

It also leads to sloppy policy discussions and is a way of avoiding looking at the root causes of violence in different reasons.
For instance people are much more comfortable talking about the various factors that lead to violence in African countries or Central American countries than they are to look at the root causes of violence in the Middle East.
It is always difficult for countries to examine the causes of violence that affect them.

It is difficult for British people to accept that some of the British Government's policies inflamed levels of violence in Northern Ireland and led to a massive escalation of violence.

However it is possible to understand the larger issues that cause violence without it being used a framework to remove personal responsiblity for war crimes, human rights abuses and criminal violence on an individual level.

Also government's do not win wars like this quickly - with all the US government funding and intervention they could not defeat the opposition in Vietnam and El Salvador - when they did not obey rules of engagement and committed and aided other armies that perpetrated massive human rights abusses. This did not decrease violence just made more people think that the USA is a violent, agressive country that doesn't respect other countries. This doesn't seem to be a good method for reducing violence.

Answer 2

The fact became made how do you kill something that has integrated itself right into a society,the respond is take out the society.How did we defeat Nazism,we layed waste to Germany unfortunatly that's the only way,yet a minimum of that they had the experience to provide up,the terrorists do not.once you have people who think of each and everything they see on the propaganda gadget that's Al-Jazeera is unquestionably the reality there is quite no thank you to rationally handle them.I say all of this apologizing to the solid descent Muslims obtainable yet i'm merely being real approximately this.Now the question is can united statesa. win the conflict on terror,No via fact we are battling this conflict with a million arm and 3 palms tied behing our backs,strike a million,and we've allies that regularly get what's giong to ought to be performed approximately this even decrease than maximum persons in this u . s . a . do,so because it quite is strike 2 and then we've the UN,strike 3

Answer 3

And there is a question in this post where?

Here, let's make this a valid thread...

Tell me Boo, setting aside the fact that you want to see the Americans fail, how would you go about winning the War on Terror?

The World (not only America) must win the War on Terror. The alternative isn't acceptable. I would hope you would feel the same way.

Answer 4

They could have won the war on terror if they focused on the terorists rather than occupying Iraq where there were no terrorists but now they've become sucked into an insurgency war they are facing disaster. Very few countries ever defeat insurgencies-Britain being one of the few that has done-and Americans just aren't the type of people that have the temprament to win such a conflict. Americans have shown themselves to be ham fisted amateurs when it comes to international diplomacy.

Answer 5

To some degree, I agree that America cannot win the war on terror, as it's presently being fought. They should remove the "silly legal ropes that bind" our military and let them do their job. The war could then be quickly won. Unleash the military, throw away the "rules of engagement" constraints and let our military do their jobs and you will see a much different outcome.

If I were in charge, the people that dance in the streets and burn American flags would fear doing so. We need to demonstrate better global leadership and to do that, expect to irritate a few people. If you're going to attack a country, do so with overwhelming power, not this piece meal approach we are doing now.

We have many military tools not being used. We are very careful to do things a certain way because we don't want to "offend" the Islamic followers. It's disgusting and stupid. We are who we are and they are who they are. Accept the differences and live with it.

We are becoming a nation of wimps, disrespected worldwide, largely due to our growing liberal mindset that mandates we should try to please all nations all the time....especially the ones that sell us oil.

Answer 6

America can never win war on terror.
In an effort win terror on war without their knowledge they themseves breeds terror. One can not forget that today's their war on terror(Osama bin laden) trained and supported by them in order to fight Soviet Union in 80s. Even today they are supporting countries like pakistan but unfortunately pakistan isi is supporting terrorists in Kashmir. but all muslim terrorist organisations in the world today are interlinked by one or the other way. summarily unless you take broader, coordinated and concrete step on fighting terror no country can win war on terror.

Answer 7

But we are winning the war on terror. It's just going to take a long time and a lot of sacrifice. Sad isn't it that their are those who are consumed with the intent to kill all those who do not think or believe as they do. But they need to be stopped at all costs. Beacuse life wiithout freedom is no life at all.

Answer 8

This "war on terror" thing is only a catchphrase. Unless you are prepared to kill people just on suspicion, regardless of any innocent bystanders, the way the Israelis do, there is nothing much you c a n do, apart from catching terrorists in the attempt.

If you put this on a personal scale: If I suspect one of my neighbours 5 sons of trying to kill me, am I entitled to kill the whole family and burn their house? then you can see how absurd the whole thing is.

People live quite happily with many threats, natural and man-made, but hardly anybody seems to worry about them half as much.

Answer 9

i agree with you to some extent. and i want to add until America takes other countries in confidence the war on terror is just a failure. you can see taliban problem is getting more agreesive these days even after 5 years of military operation in Afghanistan. same is situation of iraq.

Answer 10

Yes it is possible to win the war, but not with an army, it is just as sitting ducks. The way is education and works which will make us get rid of poverty, this disarm the frets.