What is USA trying to prove in Iraq and Afghanistan?

Question

Won't there be daiy violence for the nest 100 years? By which time Bush and we all will be dead. So how can America (and allies) win this war on terror????????????????????????????????????????? How will we win if every day is a new revelation? Whetehr its a new car bomb or a suicide attack or a market attack, etc?/
How can they ever prevent this??

Answer 1

Prove, nothing... change, to put an end to Islamic extremist terrorism... and there is a spell check on this right?

Answer 2

They are not trying to prove anything.

They are trying to stabilize both countries as much as possible under the circumstances.

Previously they had left alone the area and the anarchy they left came back to haunt them.

The only way they can win, is to be able to establish a force made up of nationals that is capable of dealing with the situation.

Whenever you have conflicts, people tend to die. When you consider how much people with ill will exist against presense there, the number of America and NATO casualties is very low.
The problem is that keeping those casualites very low is very expensive.

The war on terror? You can't win. Honestly. You can't win the war on drugs or disease or poverty or any other other ills that have been with society for time on end. You have to be REALISTIC. Sometimes, innocent people are killed by drunk drivers. You do the BEST you can and keep those numbers as low as possible.

In terms of the war on terror, there are 100s of conflicts in the world. Each of those has its own complexities. Many like that in Palestine, are unlikely to be solved any time soon if ever at all. Most people don't live in countries where everybody has equal rights for example. There are people who want to take land away (r get it back) from others. As long as these conflicts exist and as long as there are conflicts with unequally armed combatants, there will be terrorists. This is not new!!! That had terrorists in Rome and one hundred years from now, there will still be terrorists.

Fortunately tho, the chance of any of us getting killed by terrorists in general, is pretty low, unless you live somewhere with an active civil war.

Answer 3

I dont know but do we just give up???This is not like any war we have ever seen.It is a war of ideology against fanatics who would have us revert back to the middle ages.They dont have any rules yet we are expected to play by them.Then we are crucified when we try to level the playing field by questioning suspects without first offering them their rights.As far as I am concerned they have no rights and if they are mistreated a little boo frikkin hoo.I say we should round up all these fanatics and drop them off on an uninhabited island somewhere and drop a bomb and do the world a big favor,screw their rights!!!!!!!!

Answer 4

It's not a matter of trying to prevent it, I believe. We're just trying to make lives better. Instead of asking why, why don't you just focus on the fact that people are willing to sacrifice their lives, time, and moments with their family because they feel that this is a mission they are willing to support. Unless you are going to go to Iraq and help, why don't you leave the asking of why to those willing to do something about it?

Even when we weren't doing anything (prior to 9/11 that is), terrorism still found us, didn't it? Would you rather just hang out at home with your family and friends knowing that there are people out there that are so unhappy and cannot do anthing about their situation, or would you want to go try to make their lives better doing the only thing we can do at this point?

As someone in the military, I know for a fact that this is not a situation that needs to be questioned. Accept the fact that there are people willing to risk their lives for the mission.

Answer 5

Sounds as if you're saying that if something's difficult, don't try.

Are you suggesting that turning the countries over to people that use car bombs etc. is all right with you. Even Saddam took responsibility for using poison gas on his own people! But wait, that was against the Geneva Convention and illegal under international law.

Answer 6

we at the instant are not at conflict WITH the two Afghanistan or Iraq. whether we could constantly be/have been at conflict IN the two usa is yet another concern. In the two circumstances the united kingdom observed the U. S.. on the subject of Afghanistan the suitable concern became that it presented a hidey hollow for Osama Bin encumbered. the united kingdom and the U. S. invaded in the wish of catching Bin encumbered after the atrocities in manhattan and Washington on 11th September. in the form we ignored him and could have pulled out at modern-day yet stored a gazing short until the possibility arose to assassinate him. rather we grew to become embroiled in a futile attempt to impose a western variety democracy on what's largely a lawless usa and are needlessly dropping the lives of our valuable youthful human beings in the approach. Iraq became a great worse case. We had the possibility to settle with Saddam Hussein on the time of the 1st Gulf conflict in the early Nineteen Nineties while there became a much greater credible coalition ranged against him and a severe breach of international regulation with the invasion of Kuwait that needed to be addressed. in the form we pulled out earlier the activity became achieved yet inspite of the actuality that inspired the Iraqi inhabitants (in specific the marsh Arabs in the south and the Kurds in the north) to revolt against Saddam yet left them to their very own gadgets while Saddam retaliated with huge dying. Why did the U. S. invade returned? because of the fact the warmonger Rumsfeld desperate that for the time of spite of the actuality that the primary source of Al Qaeda became Afghanistan "there have been no longer adequate objectives in Afghanistan" so it became desperate to invade Iraq rather. on the ideas of such idiots are wars began.

Answer 7

We can't. This situation was kind of like WW II. Somebody attacked us and we fought back. Simple as that. We want to put an end to all this crap. The crap of all the terrorism.

Answer 8

you have to understand american's macho psychology which means even though US knew they could not win the war in Iraq , but for the death of almost 3000 american soldiers , the US military needs to kill at least 300,000 iraqis in order to prove to the world that one american soldier can stand / fight against 100 iraqis, so they can claim they are the real tough guys.

Answer 9

To destroy all of the terrorists that we can and keep on doing it and re-educate these people and bring them back
to the 21 Century instead of the 7 Century.

Answer 10

Rostov's answer is very good but like he said declaring war on terror is impossible they should never have said that phrase.