Why is the act of defending ourselves against terrorists cells at all costs portrayed so poorly be others?

Question

Im talking about the US and its Allies like Britian?

Answer 1

There are so many bleeding hearts for the ones that would kill them they can't see straight. They think we are such a group of meanies for wanting to protect their scroungy butts. That is why. They think the terrorists should be released from prisons so they can do it again. If this is the case why not just fling open all prison doors and release everyone. After all what is the difference between a mass murderer or a terrorist except name. You would have an uproar like you wouldn't believe if the USA or Britain opened up prison doors for rapists, thieves, murderers etc. But those that would strap a bomb to themselves to blow up thousands are wonderful individuals that deserve special treatment. People better get their priorities straight and their heads out of their butts.

Answer 2

What do you mean at all costs? Do you mean at the cost of our freedoms, personal liberty, and morality? In this case I believe that is a case of becoming the monster you seek. It would make us no better than the ones we are fighting against and remove the things we are fighting for. If we are fighting for our freedom and survival, why would you remove our freedoms?

I don't think the terrorists should just be released from prisons, but I do think that the government has on itself a burden to prove that they are terrorists. The only way to do that is through an impartial trial. This means that the Bush/Blair (whichever you are talking about) administration can't arrest a person, hold a secret trial where evidence can be used that the tried can't even look at or dispute, and then be thrown into prison. If the evidence against these people is so strong, any jury will convict them. If it isn't, or the most common case that there is no proof other than witch trial style hearsay, then the person being set free isn't a terrorist.

Would you, as a normal, everyday citizen, accept being arrested by the CIA, imprisoned indefinately in another country, and then, when it came time for your trial, just be told that you are guilty, no ifs ands or buts? If you doubt that this can happen to an American, you have no further to look than at Jose Padilla. He is an American citizen, arrested in Chicago by the military, and shipped off to Gitmo with not so much as a "You have the right to a laywer".

Answer 3

When the Ends are used to Justify the means, you lose your moral compass. Simply saying that it is okay to, for example, torture people becuase your foe does so, makes you NOT as bad as your enemy, but worse, because WE know better. Or at least we used to.

The very term 'at all costs' is an indicator of the problem. If we ourselves are willing to 'at all costs' commit atrocities in respose to an act like the 9/11 attack, we basically spit on the memory of the victims, because we are saying atorcities are okay, and if the ones we commit are okay, you are saying the ones commited against us are as well.

It is never a good deal to sell your soul, no matter what the goal. When America becomes the country that is willing to trample on civil rights, of our own people, as well as others, then we are no longer a great nation in any meaningful sense of the world. We would become, in essence, nothing more then a big, mean bully.

Answer 4

I think that invading a country that had NO links to Al-Quaida might have been considered to be something other than "defending ourselves" by some nations. Now that more people are dying in Iraq, than before we invaded, along with the destruction of major utilities, we may not be the most popular occupying army there ever was.

Plenty of support for the war in Afghanistan. Unfortunately, there were 130,000 troops sent to the wrong war. As a result, of not having enough people to do the job, our only accomplishment in Afghanistan seems to have ben to remove the Taliban & replacing them with the heroin growers & war lords - hardly a respectable accomplishment.

There may be a reason that one of Americas contribution to the English language is Clusterfork (replace the O & R as applicable). We are just so good at it. In addition to our current accomplishments, Korea, Vietnam & Somalia, it suggest that if we want to conslusively win the next one, we pick on Andorra (Andorra has no military force of its own so I think we stand quite a good chance of winning).

Answer 5

Only dumbasses downplay the importance of the matter, and there's plenty of such individuals in both countries, along with others. God Bless you.

Answer 6

Because these "people" are desensitized and are brain-dead zombies.

Answer 7

because nobody believes us anymore