Is America winning the war on terrorism?

Question

What do you think because this war seems like it has been going on forever.

Answer 1

Here's what's REALLY going on in Iraq!...
http://www.strayreality.com/Lanis_Strayreality/iraq.htm

Answer 2

A war on terrorism can never be won because you end up with both side behaving in a terrorist way and the repression of liberty in previously free societies.
Terrorism usually comes from an injustice that the world fails to correct; when people no longer have hope the terrorists can control them and recruit them.
The biggest problem for the last 60 years has been Israel and their ethnic cleansing of Palestine, until this is addressed there will be no peace.

Answer 3

No, and you won't as long as your country continues to waste it's resources on the wrong targets, like Iraq and continues to believe that the best way to fight a country less totally self contained organization that answers to no population or government is by conducting military operations only against it and calling it war on terrorism. What I see is a sham. Politicians looking like they are doing something when all it is is your politicians looking like they are doing something and explaining why it didn't work and why doing more of the same will work this time.

Answer 4

During the second world war 26,000 people died per day. That war we had a clear enemy. In this war the terrorist hide everywhere, and they don't follow any rules of engagement. What most people don't understand is that it only takes a few acts to make things completely change from the day before. It will take many years to finish this war.

Answer 5

I think we have gotten ourselves into a situation where I have no idea how we will get out of it. We have gotten so far into Iraq that I can't see a way for us to get out. I bet the troops are there indefinitely. I think that the terrorists that caused 9/11 are still out there. I think many of them may still be in the U.S. but we don't know it, just waiting to get orders to do something. Do I think we are winning at war? I don't think there is a "win" when it comes to war. I just think there is a lot of loss, money, and work to be done.

Answer 6

We were talking in class today about how Americans want quick results. The war has been going on for just a few years (in Iraq) and I don't know what results people are really looking for. No more Saddam is a good thing but insurgency is a bad thing. I would say just wait a little bit longer and this war will be over.

Answer 7

No Monica, there is still terrorism going on around the world, we have been fortunate that we haven't had an another attack since 9/11. With our troops tied up with a civil war in Iraq and our borders wide open is seems to me that we are very vulnerable to another attack.

Answer 8

Yes. It seems like it has been going on forever cause it has. The first WTC bombings, USS Cole, etc. The war is gonna take a long time, cause they had behind citizens and we can't hurt citizens cause then the UN will get all worked up (gonna like when Rosie O'Donnell sees a donut). Anyway, we will win, cause we got the best dang military in the world.

Answer 9

... as an american i can tell you for a fact that you and me as ordinary americans are losing BECAUSE of the war on terrorism ... in reality it is a war fabricated by globalists to subjugate and control the entire world in the name of safety ...when it is over you can bet your kids lives that the constitution will be gone forever and the new order of things will be the UN and their constitution as well as centralized control of world economy ... terrorism bah ...theres much more at stake here than sand people in the desert not liking you ... we trained them anyway ...do alittle research.

Answer 10

I have just finished reading a book by a 22-year veteran of the CIA He wrote a wonderful if very depressing book called Imperial Hubris in which he said the West and particularly the U.S. is losing the war with terrorism because we fail to acknowledge that Muslims the world over hate us for our actions and not our ideas or way of life, as Bush has continually stated. Of course, by stating that they hate us for our way of life and not our actions means we don't have to examine that our policies abroad may not be popular with Muslims. After reading the book, I started filtering all the various stories I read and hear in the news through the viewpoint expressed in the book, and he's right.

His thesis is this: America is hated by the terrorists, insurgents and many Muslims (many of whom would never take up arms against the U.S.) due to five things the U.S. has done:

1. Occupied Afghanistan and Iraq. Iraq in particular is bad because it's on the Arabian Peninsula and is considered the second most holy Islamic country after Saudia ArabiMF We've failed to understand the cultural backgrounds of either country and have gone in willy nilly and dropped bombs and killed people without understanding that they may love freedoms like Americans enjoy, but they appreciate security more. They are also not secularized countries that want secular democracies. Afghanistan in particular is a Muslim nation that has been ruled by tribal societies for thousands. If the Soviets with 150,000 troops and very brutal methods could not defeat the Afghans, what makes us think we can with fewer than 30,000?

2. Our utter unquestioning support for Israel, our funding of Israel to the tune of $3 billion annually and weapons upon weapons. These weapons are used against the Lebanese and against the Palestinians (Muslims) to perpetutate their second class status. Third generation Palestinians are now making their home in refugee camps established in the 1940s.

3. Our support for Islamic dictatorships in Egypt, Saudia Arabia, Libya, etc. all in exchange for cheap oiMF

4. Our continued presence on the Arabia Peninsula in our desire to establish air bases. We shifted from Saudi Arabia to another country, I believe it's Yeman. They're not fooled.

5. Our backing of Indian, Russian and Chinese suppression of minority Muslim populations in their respective countries.

The author makes the point that we win the tactical battles, but the terrorists are winning the strategic battles. We could kill insurgent and terrorist Muslims until Doomsday but there will always be more to replace them. Even bin Laden could be replaced and terrorism would not go away. In fact, he stated, and realized it wasn't a popular thing to say in the West, that bin Laden isn't a terrorist. He's a warrior who has declared war on the U.S in 12996 and his attacks are a state of war, not terrorism that can be brought to heel by the FBI, CIA or any U.S. court.

Answer 11

It is an unwinnable war. Having a "war on terrorism" is like having a "war on crime" -- it will never be over, because there will always be violent fanatics. Just like there will always be criminals.