WILL the USA ever realise that you cant beat terrorists ?

Question

The Brits understand this, that is why they went to the peace table with the IRA.
The best thing to come out of America is the jet home.

LEOGIRLO8 what planet RU from

MEOW THE CAT ive lived in IRELAND so stay speechless

BLACKIE BASSETT WE HAD TO INVADE, WE NEEDED MEN TO BUILD ROADS AND WE HAD RUN OUT OF SPUDS

Answer 1

then expect more jets into our skyscrapers, and a meaningless existence of dhimmitude.

there is a qualitative difference between the IRA and the Islamic terrorists. the goal of the IRA was to exist independent of England. The goal of the Islamic terrorists, is to exist, with no others existing. (period). A worldwide Islamic Caliphate, that makes the taliban look like the libertarian party.

appeasing terror, and cutting and running is a slippery slope. Cut now, and prepare to cut for the rest of your life, till were all speaking arabic, praying to the East, or dead.
those are the terms of surrender if you want to surrender to the throatcutters and splodey dopes.

you libs will be the end of this country, you fight for the rights of terrorists trying to kill you all more than the rights of soldiers defending you. you are the enemy within, the fifth column, its true you dont understand national defense, thats why you fear it, and try to defund it.

Answer 2

Terror is terror. Its pointless saying IRA terror is not the same as Islamic terror. Thats the thickest thing I've Heard in A long while. As for Bush and his fans, the problem is when they look at the big ships and jet fighters that they have, they start to cause trouble in a small third world country so they can bomb it and feel good. Things get tricky when they don't want Americans in their country. The French resistance were called terrorists by the Nazis.So the real problem is not terrorists but freedom fighters. This is easy to understand because they are all over there and not over here. Although we did get a few. So America has to negotiate - with freedom fighters.

Answer 3

Absolutely right because you cant kill an idea. BRAVO! Well said. And beyond that, our pres' dirty deeds have only incited them to become even worse. But let's not forget that the "terrorists" started this a long time ago. Does anyone remember the Achile Lauro? That was a terrorist act by the same Jihadists way back then. So what do we do as a country sit by and let them go nuts? Or take them to task? Seems as though there is no answer, except peace. Peace on the part of the extremists and peace on the part of the west. But despite how much i puke on littlebush and cheneydick we didnt start this did we?

Answer 4

Terrorism is a media technique where isolated, small scale despicable acts are used to influence large numbers of people to change their behaviour; the risk of terrorism to any individual is so small as to be neglible yet Western governments continue to divert enormous sums that would otherwise be spent on worthwhile activities.

Countering terrorism depends on (a) detailed and painstaking investigative techniques by police (b) media & political activities to counter the terrorist spin and (b) indifference on the part of the target ie us the general public

It took the British Government almost 25 years (from 1968) to reach this view and for John Major to start the disengagement process followed up by Tony Blair- I suspect it will take the USA a similar amount of time to come to terms with what constitutes an effective policy to deal with current terrorist activities.

Answer 5

No, you can win. The germans came up with a very effective way in WW2. I'm not saying the jews were terrorists, but if germany suceeded their wouldn't have been any jews left - if you did the same to muslims you would remove all muslim terrorists. You guys fought it, so it is now a moral dilema - a) wipe the lot out, ensure your safety but have a guilty conscious for wiping out a group of which 90% are innocent (and you can't tell which ones were which) or b) wait until its obvious they are terrorists then shoot (pity that you can only be sure after they do damage).
Israel at least has stated morals be f.u.c.k.e.d., our community comes first. The french have similar morals - if they attacked the french, within a week all muslims in france would be dead along with all the muslims in middle east - I depise much about the frenchies but i do admire they tolerate no crap from no one.

Simply put, you can't win the war with your current attitude. To win you have to change your morals so you say "we aren't better than they are, and i'm proud of it" then masacre the entire lot. Innocent or not.

Answer 6

USA and Britan are not similar countries. There is a big difference between terrorizing a rather small island country with a high population density and a huge sprawled country with a low overall population density.

Terrorist acts work by causing ripples of fear. The ripples are felt more strongly in small places than in large. In the US, the ripples from even an act like 9/11 did not hit most of us very hard (they certainly had an effect, but not a fearful one!)

The question is, when will the terrorists realize that they are accomplishing as little towards promoting their goal as we are in promoting ours?

Answer 7

will you ever realise they can be beat and that's exactly what the Yanks are trying to do so as a Brit for gods sake praise them and stop condemning them. It was along time before we got to the table with Ireland but its looking good now after nearly 100 years so just remember what went on in the interim period

Answer 8

How can you say the IRA won they killed more of there own people than they did English, where is the logic in that. The IRA came to the peace table because they had no other choice, as there own people where against them, so lets get it straight the English and the Irish won with common sense, the IRA came to there senses.

Answer 9

What should we all do lie down and leave the scum to win?
The Americans and the coalition will never give in to terrorism.

Terror will always be defeated, even if the war on terror lasted 1000 years.

What most people don't realise is that if these terrorist were seen to be winning, then thats when the whole country will be wiped off the map.

Answer 10

The problem with negotiating with terrorists is that generally they are not representative of a nation, they are not a goverment and therefore they have no real mandate or legislative power. Therefore any items on the agenda would involve aggression not policies.

All governments in the civilised world must stay resolute and robust in their fight against terrorism. Terrorism is one facet of mans many failings driven (in the case of Musilims)by the incorrect interpretation of the Koran.

You cannot bargain with killers.

Answer 11

You are right in parts there is only two ways to beat terrorists .
nuke the b.........ds or the conference table.
you cannot beat anyone fighting on there own ground look at Stalingrad, Vietnam, Bosnia.
what they should do is pull out and leave these countries to get on with it and that's what we should have done in Ireland.
And tell me how you can differentiate a soldier of the IRA from a bloke going to work you cant.
and one thing we didn't have to put up with was Suicide bombers how do you deal with them.
I FOR ONE AM GLAD I'M NOT IN THE ARMY AND I TAKE MY HAT OFF TO THE FORCES FOR WHAT THEIR TRYING TO DO.