Does Denigrating our President embolden our enemy?

Question

Is more of our Military dying because of the attitude of some Americans toward the war on terror?

Answer 1

Oh Absolutely yes.

Answer 2

No, it just gives them a new strategy and a chance to reach out to what they would call a demographic. Right or wrong, being an enemy of the most powerful nation on the face of the earth is pretty bold in itself. Our military service members are dying at a higher rate than should be because they are protecting a strategic area that could shift the balance in politics, economics, and global superpowers. This problem snowballed out of control because we weren't prepared and had no strategy to get out, probably because they knew we weren't going to be able to leave. Democracy in the middle east, not gonna work, not in this lifetime, not in the next. I have a genuine distaste for the beginings of the war in Iraq and don't believe in giving power to campaigns which will never achieve their objectives (ie. the war on drugs, the war on terror, the war on christmas). It's complete nonsenseical idealism, should we fight terrorists, yes. Should we fight to keep drugs out of our country, yes. Should we call it a war, not a chance, it's not a war in the traditional sense. It's a struggle and we should be making ground on all these. Being at war is more offensive than defensive, and gives people in power an easy out from having to explain in detail what they hope to achieve, they can just keep giving broad strokes and whenever someones feet or constitutional rights get trampled on they can say, hey there's a war on deal with it. Mob rule is no way to govern.

Answer 3

Disunity can be comforting to our enemies. It is hard to make the case that our servicemen are dying because of public criticism of the President. But the reality is that it can take a toll on military morale...and it's likely that it has by much of political carping that has been aimed at the President.

Find below an interesting article that contrasts responses by different political parties in different conflicts.

Eye-opening...

Answer 4

Hey--This is W, Big Oil, and the multinational corporate entities war---Leave America and American's out of it. There's this word--obfuscation--that defines Bush's reasonings for war. Look it up.

How 15 Saudi's with Box cutters became the justification for instituting an Imperialist Executive Branch free for all is the real question!! If things were to be determined by what we Americans care about, then we'd be leaving Iraq ASAP. You think Bush cares about the war on terror?--then ask him to incorporate the recommendations of the 9/11 commision and stay away from privatizing our security with foreign interests.

Answer 5

Most assuredly. I know for a fact Bin Laden reads these boards each and every day and then informs his minions about our divisions. I guess if we had the internet during the Viet Nam conflict, they would have been dancing in the streets in North Viet Nam. If you are old enough to remember there were hundreds of thousands of people protesting the Viet Nam conflict and I don't remember ever hearing about we are emboldening the enemy. I am so sick of hearing this idiotic statement being repeated over and over. I love my country, I support our troops. I wish our President had the sense to not send them there in the first place, that was not our responsibility to depose Saddam. That was a poor policy decision and made worse by our President and his cabinet members standing in front of America and lying as to the reasons we needed to "invade" Iraq. Another first in our Presidential history. I hope he lives long enough to read what history writes about him. After voting in nine Presidential elections, my opinion, President Bush should resign.

Answer 6

Criticism of the President doesn't embolden the enemy. Considering the fact that they are willing to tie bombs to themselves, they can't get much bolder. However, demanding that the government does a better job of planning the war can have a positive effect, and result in less troops dying. Hopefully it can also result in better medical care for injured soldiers and a direct apporach to any PTSD problems that our soldiers may have. Now get out there and support the troops (and I don't mean T shirts and bumper stickers)!

Answer 7

i will purely answer with some expenditures from Dwight Eisenhower, as quickly as admired Republican widespread & President-in line with risk the Republicans will savour those. How they have replaced. each gun it fairly is made, each warship released, each rocket fired shows, interior the purely suited experience, a theft from people who starvation and are not fed, people who're chilly and not clothed. This international in palms isn't spending money on my own. that is spending the sweat of its worker's, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its babies. that is not a existence-style in any respect in any actual experience. under the cloud of threatening conflict, that is humanity dazzling from a go of iron. April sixteen, 1953 A people who values its privileges above its techniques quickly loses the two. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Inaugural handle, January 20, 1953 i like to have self assurance that folk interior the long-term are going to do extra to sell peace than our governments. certainly, i think of that folk want peace a lot that a style of days governments had extra effective get out of how and enable them to have it. I hate conflict as purely a soldier who has lived it may, purely as person who has considered its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Answer 8

Probably. The terrorists are very media saavy and feel like they are winning when the american media is so anti Bush and anti military. If americans were 100% behind this war on terror in all the places it is being fought, it would help our soldiers, and hurt those who would harm them.

I imagine those of the left think they are doing the soldiers a favor by criticizing almost everything they are doing, but that couldn't be further from the truth.

Answer 9

Weakness emboldens the enemy. That nutcase in Iran appears weaker when his own country disagrees with him. They feel the same when our leftist socalists disagree with our president. Therefore, the enemy sees the president as weak. At the same time, we cannot let any president, right wing or left thing they can operate outside the law of our country. Nixon tried and was almost impeached. Clinton did and was impeached.

Answer 10

Our military is dying because of the Muslim/terrorists attitude toward Americans not the attitude of the majority of Americans toward the war.

While they are aware that we against the war (and therefore against this president who started it), I don't think it really matters. If they thought it would affect our military I think by now they know better than to underestimate our fighting forces.

Answer 11

I would say not. Disapproval of Bush has been going on long before now and it hasn't stopped him. And amazing how this question can even be asked, seeing as it never stopped the other 42 presidents before him.