Has the American/U.K "war on terror" made the world a more dangerous place?

Question

If Yes/No then WHY?

Answer 1

YES

Answer 2

Yes it is more dangerous. All the facts and statistics show that terror is much more widespread. There were no terrorists in Iraq at the invasion in 2003 although they probably were supporting other groups. Now Iraq has many major terror organizations. Attacks in other countries are up greatly I can't help but thinking if Osama had been captured or killed terrorism would have had a set back. If the US and UK are not going to even talk to these groups, people or states they brand as terrorists then you really leave very little opportunities for those who are opposed to the western ideas.

Answer 3

Absolutely not! The world already was and is a dangerous place. Do you mean, have we made additional enemies since 9/11? A few more have surfaced who carried a silent vendetta for the US and/or Great Britain. Take Jock Chirac as an example, he must be a direct decendant of Charles DeGaulle, because he too despised the US, and particularly Eisenhower. He never did forgive the US for liberating France, at the end of WWII.

This low life bastard, Chirac has done more harm in showing a united front against the enemy, than Russia or China. Of course, we know we can't depend on France for anything, and haven't been able to since WWI. Even then, they wanted control, and sadly we gave them control. Why, we even adopted their machine gun as a crew served field piece. Or, at least until the doughboys discarded the damn thing, because it didn't work, but I digress.

History will show that the US/UK coalition is the one thing that saved the free world from the tyranny of the fanatical muslim world. Chirac will go down in shame as just another hack, who tried to run the muslim country called France. And, you doubting Thomases will be able to tell your grandchildren how wrong and blind you were at the beginning of this millenium, in doubting the tenacity and wisdom of GWB.

Leftists in S.America, particularly the disgusting fat body, Hugo Ducky Chavez, has exacerbated the American cause, as has Assad of Syria, Kim Jong Il of N. Korea, and Ahmadinejad of Iran. They have all taken the opportunity to spread their rhetoric against the US/UK coalition. They, on their own have remained mute, but have developed strength in numbers as each one surfaced with their own form of mis-behavior. This is an indication of the courage and character of the people in question. Or, should I say, 'lack of!'

Answer 4

No, I say this because war is nothing new. Without war this country might not even exist right now. Because of war certain cultures barely exist today. War is a way of the world regardless people believe it or not. Christians and Muslims have been fighting for thousands of years over the Holy Lands. Dictators have throughout history brought on unnecessary wars simply for power and greed. Peace is a privilege. It is desired for everyone. However to accomplish peace sacrifices have to be made. Do people forget how this country was founded? Do people know anything about history? They say in order to change the future, we must know our history because history tends to repeat itself. But how do you change people who only know hate, anger and war? Is a country any better to allow the death of it's citizens rather then it's military? The military in which people volunteer and know the consequence of volunteering. Do you allow your citizen's to be picked off a group at a time simply because we choose peace? Well, whether we choose peace or not, it don't matter. Our enemies are still at war with us, period. So when it gets down to it, it always has been and always will be a survival of the fittest.

Answer 5

That is the biggest lie and misinformation spread by a few people who are using it towards a political end that sadly far too many people, including the media who should know better, have bought into.

Think of this logically for a minute. Before 9/11 there were many terrorist attacks all over the world but for the most part we tended to ignore them or pay very little attention. The embassy bombings in East Africa, the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, the Truck Bomb in the basement of the Twin Towers, the Lockerbie Plane Bombing and many others. Many occured in the Middle East or most specifically in Israel and THOSE attacks most Westerners paid VERY little, if ANY attention to at ALL!! In 1998 Osama declared war on us and who remembers when it happened? Do you? DO you REALLY remember the day the News announced that Osama Bin Laden declared war on the United States?? If it had been China, or Russia or Mexico declaring war on the U.S. you would have remembered it I bet. Ask yourself that honestly? I doubt many of you do remember that day. That was over 3 YEARS before 9/11. How safe did you feel before 9/11?? Well reality was that we were in more danger then than we could ever realize because we refused to recognize the danger. There was a Cobra raised up ready to strike us and we just sat there because we just refused to recognize how truly dangerous this man and people like him were. We deluded ourselves into believing we were safe and nothing REALLY bad was ever going to happen to us. Oh there would be the occasional plane bombing or some embassy in some country that most Americans couldn't even find on a map would get blown up but that was somewhere far, far away and we, we here in America and Western Europe, oh we're safe, we don't need to worry. The truth is we were less safe then than we are now, it's just that we refused to believe the facts staring us in the face until the horrible truth came home in the deaths of almost 3,000 Americans. Do you realize that 9/11 was the 2nd bloodiest day in American History? Only Antietam in the Civil War saw more Americans die in one day. Were we safer at 7am the morning of 9/11 or are we safer now? We see a Cobra now and we kill it, we hunt any trace of it and we kill it, we even HEAR of anyone who walks, talks or acts like a Cobra and we're all over it. So what do you think? Safer now or safer at 7am on 9/11?

It's not that we're less safe we're just more aware of the thread. WE deluded ourselves before to the danger that was out there. Lets not delude oursleves again into believing that the actions we have taken to fight this threat have made us less safe.

Answer 6

I agree with Gin.

But, I must say it is for a short run.

The war on terrorism can only make the west safe to a short period of time, but if we really want long-lasting safety, then we should focus more on "why do the muslims hate us?"

Without the question above solved, there will be more and more attacks to the west, as long as they are at the face of the earth.

Answer 7

Obviously. Because everything was peace, love and harmony before that. 9/11 was a day of love and peace and happiness between Islam and the West. The bombings of US embassies in Africa were all about tolerance and harmony between Islam and the US. Kim Jong Il and Madeliene Albright danced together to cement the love and harmony between the US and North Korea.

Enough! The world was a very dangerous place before the War on Terror, but not all of us were oblivious to that. We saw what was going on and knew it was a dangerous place already. To sermonize that it has magically gotten 'more dangerous' is a shallow exercise in foolishness and ignorance.

Answer 8

The problem is how you define the words "terror" and "terrorist". There is an old Arab proverb that says "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" and it has been said that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. So the definition of terrorist is a big part of the tensions and violence in the world today.

George Bush is a peculiar problem in himself that does not help the situation any, either. His definition of "terrorist" is anyone who has a view of things contrary to his own, as though his own view is somehow the only right one. To compound the problem, George Bush has a real shallow understanding of history and events, and his perception and goals are clouded by the fact that his direction and objectives are largely set by his jewish handlers. As a result, US policy is mainly set by Israel and all the definitions of terrorism are Israeli/Zionist/jewish definitions. Some of the comments made recently by Bush indicate the limits of his grasp, as when he said that the "root cause" of the recent Israeli-Lebanon conflict was Hezbollah capturing two Israeli soldiers and the the firing of Katyusha rockets into Israel. This statement, which he repeated over and over during the conflict, shows the lack of real understanding of the origins of the Middle East crisis, which at that point went back not two weeks like he implied but, rather, some 80 years.

George Bush's attitude that the US must go in militarily and force every Middle Eastern nation to have a Western-style democracy and their people to have all the same rights and freedoms as the citizens of the US is only aggravating the locals and making the matter worse. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, unencumbered by the same set of historical blinders as George Bush made a number of statements in his recent UN speech that were far more accurate than anything George Bush has ever said. Bush says things that are based on nothing more than his own ignorant opinion and the position of the jewish lobby. Because he is so far off and so wrong in so much of what he says it has become almost embarrassing and painful to watch any of his speeches. US policy is so far off track because of all this that is extremely doubtful that any good at all will ever come from any of this, the Iraq war included, which had nothing to do with the US war on terror but had everything to do with Israeli security.

If the US had a president more like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad it would go a long way to solving all the problems we are creating.

I am a US citizen; I was born in the USA and have lived here all my life. I think the USA is the greatest country in the world and we are fortunate to live here.

Answer 9

No. The war on President Bush and America by the far left liberals and the drive by media has made the world a more dangerous place by emboldening our enemies.

Answer 10

If you strike at a Hornets nest they will sting you,
Both America and UK Know Exactly what they are Supposed to do
to end this War on Terror but they will not, because they are trapped and compromised.
I seriously hope they will come out of its Shackles and do what they are supposed to do to remove the threat of Islamic terrorism.

Answer 11

Yes, in a way.Main cause is the multiplication of Islamic terror,the impact of it is not yet fully comprehended by those criticizing Bush and Blair day in and day out, it appears to me.