Can anyone tell me how the US military has made the US safer over the last 3 years?

Question

In over 3 years of US fighting in Iraq & Afganhistan there are as many terrorists in those countries as before 9/11. The US military has allowed a pychopath leader in N. Korea to obtain nuclear weapons that can easily be given to Al Qaeda and Iran, part of the axis of evil, will soon have nuclear weapons. What the heck our we paying these guys to do other than get shot at?

Answer 1

Yes, I can tell you. Since 9/11, there has been no terror attack within the U.S., no attack on a U.S. naval vessel (like the USS Cole, pre 9/11). Basically, we are safer because we have taken the fight to THEIR home turf rather than our own!

Thanks for asking! Glad I could clear that up for you!

Answer 2

Your question is one born of frustration. The problem here is that the entire picture is out of whack. It really has nothing to do with the Military. It is all Politics and big Corporations. Corporations now run the world and whatever is good for them shall be done. They use our Tax Dollars to build up production capability in other countries and then use the cheap labor to make Billions of dollars Profit. This has been going on full bore, ever since the End of WWII. There is nothing a Soldier or Marine can do, except follow orders or get Court Martialed.

The Military cannot protect anyone. Niether can the local Police. We Built up Japan and I am not sure that we really did them any good. We are now in the process of building up China and North korea will be next. It is all Politics and it is all about Money and Power.

Field Marshall Montgomery was asked if he would go into Politics after WWII. His answer was to the point. "War is a dirty Business, Politics is even Dirtier". End of story.

Answer 3

History plays out only one way. All we can do is speculate about what might have happened if something else was done at some point in the past. It certainly does not look good now for the United States and the world, but this observer felt very strongly (1998 to 2003) that it did not look good for the future of humankind for Saddam Hussein to get away with completely disregarding the UN and UNSCOM. We can only guess what might have happened if there was no invasion of Iraq in 2003. That scenario (demonstrable impotence of the United Nations) does not look very good either.

The problems in this century relate to the fact that militarism itself (in an age of terrorism) is becoming rather ineffectual. The world has always depended on the idea of enemies facing one another on some sort of conventional battlefield. The privatization of war (historically arriving on 911) has made militarism much less effectual; now the "enemy" is dispersed throughout nations and communities. It is taking the United States a long time to figure out how to defeat this elusive enemy.

Answer 4

First - have you seen any big buildings being blown up in the US lately?

Second - the US military has NOT "allowed North Korea to obtain nuclear weapons". You make it sound like they were out playing poker instead of guarding the stockpiles of part. The US military is not standing guard over every little bit of fissionable material in the world, From what I hear, the Koreans apparently made their own, using light water nuclear plants (provided by the Clinton administration).

Finally, you and I are paying these guys to fight Al Quaida, the Taliban, and Iran on their own territory, instead of here in the US. They've demonstrated their intent and ability to attack western countries on their home turf. By fighting them there, we can stop or at least slow that sort of attack here.

Answer 5

Bush has finally admitted Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 so I'm not sure where the previous poster gets the "home turf" thing. I do not feel any safer when our borders are wide open five years later, our military is NOT ready for the possibility of a justified confrontation or peacekeeping operation, and quite frankly, I think we have killed more people than Saddam did. But again, Saddam and Iraq had not a thing to do with 9/11.

Answer 6

YO DIAMOND DAVE: JUST SHUT UP.

The Iraq Survey Group, apart from a few stockpiles, did not find the large quantities of weapons that the regime was believed to possess.

On December 14, 2005, while discussing the WMD issue, Bush stated that "It is true that much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong."


National Intelligence Estimate (a consensus report of the heads of 16 U.S. intelligence agencies) asserted that the Iraq war had increased Islamic radicalism and worsened the terror threat.

BOTTOM LINE: THE BUSH ADMINSTRATION IS LOSING THE WAR ON TERROR.

Answer 7

They havent made us safer. We are much less safe. This is why:
-As the recent terrorist assessment stated, Iraq is just a huge terrorist recruiting poster. The country has devolved into chaos and is just a breeding ground for Arabic anti-American hatred. Prior to the war, any threat posed by the country was contained by the US and international community. They didnt pose a risk to us (there were no WMD) and the country was under control. The terrorist risk is now much greater than before because we have just stirred up a hornets nest of anger without the ability to keep the lid on it.

-Our military is now over-extended. While we are being stretched to the breaking point in a meaningless war in Irag we are hamstrung from responding to real threats like Iran and Korea. We have no leverage since the whole world knows are military is pinned down. In addition, the Army is near the breaking point in terms of personnel shortages and re-enlistment. We cant sustain this and in the meantime there are other threats that now we are not properly able to respond to .

-While we have been distracted by the quagmire that is Iraq, we haven't paid adeqaute attention to real threats like the nuclear situation in Korea, where there actually are WMD. Nor have we captured bin Laden, remember him?

Answer 8

Why do you volunteer us to babysitt north korea? Every day that a plane doesn't crash into your workplace... is the us military working to make you safer. It is not our responsibility to allow or disallow north korea to do anything. Unfourtunatly we are the only ones who care enouph about the rest of the world to go in and kick the **** out of north korea. You are paying us to go where we are told and die, taking as many of the enemy with us as possible. We will do it in korea just as well as we will do it in Iraq.

Answer 9

No. Most of their equipment was left over there. They could do very little during Katrina, They can't close the border, they can't stop drug smuggling, they can't protect the ports or our nuclear plants. We have E- coli in our spinich, from Mexican Shitt or from Jihadist Shitt. It does not matter which the can cross the border and contaminate whatever they want, but we are all safer.

Answer 10

Bill Clinton helped Kim Jong Ill get nuclear weapons, not our military.
Bear in mind, the Democrats work against our military all the time.