So, Mr. President, how's that War on Terror going?

Question

Let's recap...

Somalia is falling into the hands of Islam fanatics. Bush has done nothing to aid the legitimate government or to prevent the terrorists from taking control.............

Afghanistan - the entire Southern region of the country has fallen back under the control of the Taliban. Bush has chosen to simply ignore this issue.....

Pakistan - the Taliban has set up training camps in the Northern part of the country, and Pakistan does nothing about it. Bush has chosen to simply ignore this issue.....

Turkey - Kurdish seperatists have ending a 5 year cease-fire and are once again carrying out terrorist attacks in Turkey. The rebels are operating out of Iraq. Bush has chosen to ignore the Kurdish terrorists. Turkey wanted to use military force in Iraq to attack these terrorists, but was urged not to by the US. Apparently the US is the only country allowed to invade others to "protect" itself.

Oh, and Iraq is the 7th circle of hell. Anyone care to defend this mess?

Paul_Fost - That's the very point I'm making. Radical Islam IS an enemy to the US. I get that. That's why the fact that we ARE FAILING TO COMBAT IT on so many fronts is so troubling.....DEFINING the enemy isn't the problem (except in Iraq). Bush's problem is twofold. He refuses to combat radical Islam anywhere but in the 1 or 2 places he has invaded....And in those places, his battleplans have been inept at best.

BrianBuck - Your premise is flawed beyond repair. The US is a difficult target. We don't have a large established Muslim population like much of Europe. And you can't reach us by land from the Middle East, unlike Europe, which has been attacked REPEATEDLY since 9/11. Oh, I guess those attacks don't count for some reason? The fact is, the US has only been attacked 2 times by Muslim fanatics IN ITS ENTIRE HISTORY, so using attacks against the US as your sole yardstick for success is pretty feeble. If you actually use a GROWN-UP yardstick, you'd realize the fanatics are gaining tremendous ground on several fronts, and Bush is doing nothing to stop it....

Whodropdthesoap - Thanks for making my point for me! I love how you Bush defenders are so devoid of logic. You concede that letting the terrorist have complete control would lead to more attacks against the US....but that is exactly what Bush is doing in Afghanistan, Somalia, Northern Pakistan, Indonesia and Kurdish Iraq. He's letting the terrorist run unchecked. And you state that's a bad thing. Thanks for the support.

Answer 1

You wanna get down off the pulpit you may injure yourself when you fall from holding your nose up so high.

Well nobody has attacked the USA since 9-11-01 so apparently the "war on terror" is good.

Who are you to have to defend anything to anyway?

Does it hurt in the balls to be so uptight man? But you probably were too busy to vote right?

What no comment on the US and UN inaction in Darfur?

Hey remember Lybia? Well a few years back they got sh*t scared and decided to turn over all thier chemical weapons to the US and UN! LOL Think it was ironic or just lucky? Maybe Khadaffi or Qadaffi or however they spell his name now found God. Hasn't been the same since Reagan had us drop a bomb on his daughters tent though.

Answer 2

I know you are not going to care for my answer, but I'd like to point out a few things on this so called war on terror. People say there's no way to win a war against a religious based ideology nor an enemy that blends in with the rest of the cultures. This idea really isn't true. The people of the USA are just not willing to do what it takes to rid the planet of these terrorist. That being wage the war exactly like WWII, massive death and destruction. These terrorists weren't the first to fly airplanes into targets and blow themselves up just to kill others. The Japanese did exactly the same thing during WWII. The Japanese had exactly the same notion in their heads that they would go to a special place in heaven if they sacrificed their lives to kill the enemy. In the last year of the war in Europe, just the Allied aerial bombing alone killed almost 700,000 civilians in Germany and left tens of millions homeless. This type of death and destruction is what takes the will to wage war out of the population of the enemy. This surgical war they are trying to wage against terror will not work. All it will do is bring more people into the enemy's fold. The middle-east, particularly the radical countries like Iran, Syria, Jorden, Pakistan, and mayeb even Saudi Arabia, need to be bombed into the stone age. Every city needs to be leveled. Massive civilian deaths must occur. Only this way will the people of that area want peace, just as the Japanese did after a few atoms bombs fell from the sky. The people of the USA can't live with that much death on their hands, however.

Answer 3

Let's see, you disagree with Iraq and Afghanistan, but you want president Bush to go into Somalia? Here's an article from Dec. 15, 2006 that says Bush is doing something.
US President George W. Bush has freed 5.215 million dollars in aid to help cope with refugee flows resulting from conflicts in Somalia and Sri Lanka, the White House announced.
Bush directed US Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice in a memorandum dated Thursday to make the money available "for the purpose of meeting unexpected urgent refugee and migration needs" stemming from the fighting.
"These funds may be used, as appropriate, to provide contributions to international, governmental and nongovernmental organizations and, as necessary, for administrative expenses of the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration," he said in the memorandum, which the White House made public.
NATO along with President Bush are taking care of the situation in Pakistan. Check the source below as reported Oct. 6, 2006. If you read the globalsecurity source below, you will learn a little about why the kurds and Turks fight so much. You will also realize that President Bush is holding the Turks off while he gets control of the Kurds. He can do this, because Turkey is seeking to join the European Union.
Defending Iraq? That's easy. The majority of Iraqis want us there. The only ones that don't want us there are the isliamic extreamist and democrats. So I assume you must be a democrat since you refer to Iraq as a mess. Do some homework and learn what's actually going on in the world. If you depend on TV news for your infomation, might as well be a democrat. Search the web and read. You might learn something.

Answer 4

ok tough guy so lets recap.... 1. YOU are not the president..... 2. If we attack too many places the middle east can withhold oil that we need and that would ruin the economy even more..... 3. if we back out totally the terrorists get complete control again and we just wait for them to attack us some more..... 4. WHO THE HELL KNOWS WHAT ELSE MIGHT BE GOING ON THAT THEY AREN"T TELLING US......5. At least bush has the balls enough to try to do something about this instead of sit on yahoo answers and B*tch

Answer 5

I will defend it. Look at everyone of your examples, they all have one distinct parallel. Radical Islam. This world is to politically correct to see what is happening. Radical Islam is fighting a worldwide war against non-fundamentalist Muslims.

Before you accuse me of hating Muslims, I am not calling all of them out. Just a small percentage of the Billions of Muslims in the world. It just so happens that a small percentage of billions still equals millions of people.


This country is to PC to allow Bush to come out and essentially declare war against a religion. I wish to god he would but he won't. To many Liberal Americans would probably go into convulsions right in front of their TV if they heard Bush was declaring war against a religion.

Before you dismiss the Kurdish response as a bad thing take into account there is a large Kurdish population in Syria and Iran. If we would support the Kurds it may be the beginning of the end for Iran and Syria.

Answer 6

This argument can be issued constantly. Typically, there is an average of 23 wars going on in the world. We have to pick and choose. We pick rich and choose oil. We can't be the police for the whole world but we can do 2 things. We can make it be known that if you kill 10 of ours, we will kill tens of thousands of yours. We will protect the oil to the last drop.

Answer 7

Well, no. I'd like to ask some of my own questions, though.

bin Laden is still free, four years after our troops were ordered to stand down after he was surrounded at Tora Bora. Why?

Syria was actively cooperating in the ID & capture of al Qaida terrorists until you blew them off. Why?

You lost the peace with Iran even before taking office with your Axis of Evil speech. Why?

Nobody lost their jobs over the shambles after the 9/11 attacks. Why? Also why did you stonewall the investigation for over a year & refuse to cooperate even then?

The Iraqi army was still intact & functioning after they lost the war, yet you chose to "fire em all" rather than reorganize the officer hierarchy. Why?

You claim to be giving the Iraqis freedom while gutting those in our own country. Why? & finally,

We re-elected you. WHY oh why were we so dumb?

Answer 8

I think you forgot to mention that the US funded the IRA, sold weapons to Afghanistan and the middle-east, and blatantly invaded Vietnam for no other reason than to get there before the Russians.
How come all of a sudden you seek the moral high-ground?

Answer 9

How does one have a war on an emotion? Terror is what you feel when your chute won't open, or when your car is skidding into on-coming traffic and you can't control it! How, oh how does one fight that??

Oh! your meant a "war on terrorists"??? My bad!

Answer 10

There ain't no bannanas in the bannana punch, my friend. That's the way the world spins....counterclockwise from the bottom up. I ain't no meatpuppet, man. I'm nobody's goddamn meatpuppet. If you can see the writing on the windowsill you know that no one is hungry in a hungry world. Right? That's the way the bullet hits the blackboard, and if you can find a needle in this smokestack, then you got what it takes. Horses and Donuts.