Is the War in Iraq and the War on Terror creating more terrorists?

Question

Does anyone else think that the war on terror and the war in Iraq has destabilized the world and made it a more dangerous place? IMHO Iraq is a breeding ground for extremists. What do you think?

Answer 1

Sadly I agree that the War on terror is creating more terrorists. But in so far as it's is giving Radical leaders the "enemy" to rally others to "their" cause.
It has not destabilized the world. 9/11 destabilized the world. No one seems to be blaming Terrorists for it though. Except those fighting against them.
Is it more dangerous? Yes. However if someone came into your home and killed your family how would you react? would you try to catch all those responsible or only the ones who "pulled the trigger" Cause the one who ordered the execution are going to do it again.
Iraq a breeding ground. I disagree. I think it is a training ground. It provides "outside" terrorists the opportunity to take aim at the US because that's were the US is.
These are my thoughts.
BTW the terrorists responsible for the attack were planning this years ago. They are not being bred. They were already bred. This just fueled the flame.

Answer 2

I disagree strongly. There were terrorists running amok long before the war in Iraq. Hundreds of Marines were killed in Lebanon in 1893 by terrorists. Iranian terrorists kidnapped American citizens when Jimmy Carter was President. Do you know or remember why?
The Shah of Iran was dying of cancer and wanted to come to the US from Mexico for treatment. The nut-case Ayatollah tried to force Carter to let the Shah die in Mexico. Does kidnapping Embassy workers make any sense? No.
Bin Laden has been causing trouble for about 30 years.
If anything, the terrorists are coming out of the woodwork and concentrating in Iraq. It is better to keep the crazies busy there than having them wreaking mayhem all over the world.

Answer 3

No. The terrorists were already there. The only difference is that the war on terror has caused the problem to be concentrated in one area, instead of spread out all over.
Please, the war on terror hasn't recruited any more terrorists than there already were.
Ask those who were forced to leave Afghanistan when the Taliban took over.

Answer 4

If anything it has polarized the sides on our timetable not theirs. Those that were predisposed to terrorism have taken up that mantle and those that find the ideology abhorent have become more vocal. The positive is we have brought them out to fight armed forces instead of murdering our children. All you need do is look at current events to realize that it has not destabilized the world. The violence is almost wholly confined to those deserts, none evident on the streets of our countries.

edited: nice documentation captain, very well done

Answer 5

No. I think the war on terror is an attempt to end radical Islam. Rightfully.

Jimmy Carter tried to negotiate with them when they were infants.

See what we got with that?

Answer 6

Saddam was not behind 911 as everybody knows, he has no weapons of mass destructions, no terrorists in Iraq during his regime, why then did America invaded Iraq?
Americans should not be surprised when they are targeted by terrorist, as they surely will be, it is only a matter of time!!

Answer 7

desabilized? was everything fine before we went there?

From 1894 to 1896 Abdul Hamid, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, killed 150,000 Armenian Christians.

In India, Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadur along with his disciples was burned to death by the Moghul ruler Aurangzeb in 1675.
Another Sikh, Bhai Mati Das was sawn into right and left halves while he was still alive.

From 1843 to 1846 10,000 Assyrian Christians including women and children were massacred by the Muslims.
From 1915 to 1918 750,000 Assyrians were killed in the name of Islamic Jihad.
In 1933 thousands of Assyrian villagers were murdered by the Iraqi soldiers in Northern Iraq.
Over 30,000 Mauritanians have been killed by the Islamic dictators since 1960.
In July 1974, 4,000 Christians living in Cyprus were killed by Fahri Koroturk, president of Turkey and his Islamic army.
Over 280,000 Ugandans killed during the reign of Idi Amin from 1971 to 1979.
Genocide committed in the name of Allah: 3,000,000 Bangladeshi Hindus Killed during the Pakistan-Bangladesh war in 1971.
In 1980, 20,000 Syrians were murdered under the rule of Hafez Al-Assad, President of Syria.
Since 1990 more than 10,000 Kashmiri Hindus have been brutally murdered by Islamic fundamentalists.
Since 1992 120,000 Algerians have been murdered by the Islamic fundamentalist army.
once you realize that all muslims are capable of this, then you'll know what must be done.
It is not the terrorists that have hijacked Islam, rather it it is ISLAM that has hijacked the arab world.
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<>The following are muslim attacks against free nations
or what they call, "the Infidels."

1972 Munich Olympics Sep-5,1972 (Black September)
1976 Entebbe Hostage Crisis, June 27, 1976
1979 Iran Hostage Crisis, Nov. 4, 1979 444 days
1979 Grand Mosque Seizure, Nov 20,1979
1981 Assassination of Egyptian President, Oct 6,1981
1981 Attempted Assassination of Pope John Paul the Second
1982 Assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister, Sept 14, 1982
1983 Bombing of US Embassy in Beirut, April 18,1983
1983 Bombing of Marine Barracks, Beirut, Oct 23,1983
1984 Hezbollah Restaurant Bombing, April 12,1984
1985 Egyptian Airliner Hijacking, Nov 23,1985
1985 Rome Airport murders
1985 TWA Flight 847 hijacked, U.S. Navy diver murdered
1985 Achille Lauro hijacking, Homicidal maniac lived in saddams Iraq
1986 Aircraft Bombing in Greece, March 30, 1986
1988 Pan Am 747 Flight 103 Bombing, Lockerbie, 100's murdered
1988 Berlin Discotheque Bombing, Dec 21,1988
1990 A Muslim Named El Sayyid Nosair Murders Israeli Political activist Meir Kahane. Nov 1990
1992 Bombing in Israeli Embassy in Argentina, March 17,1992
1993 Attempted Assassination of Pres. Bush Sr., April 14,1993
1993 First World Trade Center bombing, February 26th, 7 Killed, Hundreds injured, Billions
1994: A small bomb explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, killing a Japanese businessman. It is later discovered that Ramzi Yousef planted a bomb on the aircraft to test a bomb for his terrorist plot.December 11, 1994
1994 Air France Hijacking, Dec 24,1994
1994 A Muslim Named Rashid Baz shoots at a van filled with Hasidic boys, on the Brooklyn bridge murdering one of them. FBI calls it "Road Rage". March 1, 1994
1995 Attack on US Diplomats in Pakistan, Mar 8,1995
1995 Saudi Military Installation Attack, Nov 13, 1995
1995 Kashmiri Hostage taking, July 4,1995
1996 Khobar Towers attack
1996 Sudanese Missionaries Kidnapping, Aug 17,1996
1996 Paris Subway Explosion, Dec 3,1996
1997 At Empire State Building; Ali Abu Kamal shoots at tourists, kills one and wounds six before killing himself, Mayor Giuliani informs the public "he had many enemies in his mind".Feb 24,1997
1997 Israeli Shopping Mall Bombing, Sept 4, 1997
1997 Yemeni Kidnappings, Oct 30,1997
1998 Somali Hostage taking crisis, April 15,1998
1998 U.S. Embassy Bombing in Peru, Jan 15, 1998
1998 U.S. Kenya Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1998 U.S. Tanzania Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1999 Egypt Air flight 990's co-pilot crashes plane killing all 217 people on board, officials post no link to terrorism, even though the co-pilot is heard on black box tape exclaiming "I rely on Allah" 11 times as he crashed the plane.- Oct 1999
1999 Plot to blow up Space Needle (thwarted)
2000 USS Cole attacked,17 U.S.Navy sailors were murdered and 39 others were injured- October
2000-2003 Intifada against Israel - 1000's dead and injured
2000 Manila Bombing, Dec 30,2000
2001 4 Commercial airliners hijacked, 250+ murdered
2001 World Trade Center attacked, 2800+ murdered
2001 Flight 93 murders
2001 Pentagon attacked, 180+ murdered