Ahhhhh.. ..I can see it's time for this question.. . . . . . .... . . . Have you ever.. ...?

Question

stirred up a hornet's nest , and suddenly 'created' more hornets ???

Then why are some still stuck on the belief that we are somehow 'creating' more terrorists by fighting them ??

I really wish and HOPE for this insane argument to 'go away'.. . .. . ..it only serves to 'Confuse' the impressionable and uninformed !!!
And it leaves us less prepared and VULNERABLE . WE NEED EVERYBODY to be on the same page on this one.. . OUR LIVES DEPEND ON IT !!!!!

Answer 1

We believe we are creating more terrorists because the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies told us so in their NIE.

This boils down to the fact that our actions have consequences and some of them are not good.

Sometimes normal people can turn to extraordinary extremes because what is done to them. Many pedophiles were raped or abused themselves when they were children. If not for that act committed against them, they may have never hurt another child. Some women who are battered become doormats or murderers. Some children become abusers because of what they see in their home. I'm sure some Iraqis whose families or friends were "collateral damage" will well up with so much anger, hopelessness and rage that all they want is revenge. Those people become terrorists. It's not a far stretch of the imagination.

(And Al-Qaeda is only responsible for a "small fraction" of the fighting over there [according to Gen. Michael D. Maples, the Defense Intelligence Agency director]. The real problem is the country is in civil war and we are in the middle of it.)

Answer 2

Which war would you be talking about the Iraq or the Afganistian??
As for the Iraq war if we leave right now we leave it and shambles. Now remember the have the two types of muslims and yes the ones that believe in Jhiad! So if we don't get that crap fixed there then we are doomed to be struck again. Remember this sick people don't need a army they just need a few. Look at nine eleven.
As for the Ben Ladin the lead terrorist responsible for nine eleven is he died or alive we don't know. However I do believe he has been given enough time to build more cells.
I guess Clinton didn't catch him but neither has Bush.

Answer 3

Those Hornets are coming from other nests.
At the rate we're going we'll run out of hornets in 2 years and have to start in on the wasps.

Answer 4

To fight terrorism is quite right. However there has been a lot of argument about whether attacking Iraq was really fighting terrorism. Afghanistan, yes. Iraq? That's another question.
Now imagine you live in a country that may or may not have contributed to terrorism. Bombers fly over and destroy your house. Your kid brother is killed. Your kid sister is maimed for life. Your parents die. Then the soldiers come in. Your wife or your sister is raped. Then your cousin is raped and killed, along with her immediate family.
Up till now, the farthest thing from your mind has been to participate in terrorism. But now - wouldn't you want to get even? With you rlife destroyed, you would feel you have nothing to lose, you would do what you could to attack those who destoryed your life and family. You wouldn't stop to analyze all the justifying arguments, all the good intentions of those who sent the bombers and the armies. No. You would just want to get even.
That is how it "creates" terrorists. Too many innocent people are being killed, and to many other innocent people have been turned bitter and have become a fantastic recruiting ground for terrorism.

Answer 5

As long as we live in a culture which considers perpetrators to be the victims of society, then we will continue to see more of this irrational blaming of terrorists acts on our country.

To answer your question (wink), No, I've never created a hornet.

Answer 6

But you can then be at war with all the hornets in the world, who come to the aid of they're buddies - who they think are being unjustly persecuted..

Hence 1 hornet turns into 100 thousand hornets.
Then the spiders get involved.

Answer 7

Sometimes while fighting hornets,if ones attention is so focused on the hornets, that it's quite possible to get bee stung, and then there are the wasps, don't neglect the spiders, and pay particular attention to the scorpions as well....Oh! well! I think even you get the point......

Answer 8

Your analogy only works if you are already being stung by so many hornets that a few more won't make any difference. However, your analogy as it now stands fails because:
if you are not being stung and you stir up the nest, you might not make MORE hornets but you sure make more hornets that are stinging you!

Welcome to the real world in Iraq.

Answer 9

Do you remember Abu Musab Zarqawi? He was responsible for the 2003 truck bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, killing the top envoy and driving the UN out of Iraq. In 2005, Zarqawi was responsible for a triple bombing of hotels in the capital city of Jordan, killing 60 people. His violence against Shiites was so horrendous that it brought criticism from Sunni imams and even Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s number 2. With a 25 million dollar bounty on his head, he became the most wanted man in Iraq.
In 1989, he joined thousands of other foreigners waging jihad in Afghanistan and upon his return to Jordan, he received a 15 year prison sentence for possessing hand grenades. While in prison he displayed a knack for leadership. Granted amnesty in 1999, Zarqawi returned to Afghanistan.
Opting not to join Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda, he instead set up his own training camp in Herat, near the Iranian border. Hundreds of jihadists passed through his camp and provided him a worldwide network that paralleled that of al-Qaeda. After 9/11, he nearly died in a U.S. airstrike and fled to Iran. As the American invasion of Iraq loomed, Zarqawi slipped into Iraq and again set up his own network. (President George W. Bush would cite this as evidence of ties between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, though Zarqawi was at loggerheads with al-Qaeda and had little in common with Saddam Hussein’s secular regime.) Ironically, it was the U.S. invasion that prompted Zarqawi to formally link with Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda. This was a "marriage of convenience" as bin Laden was isolated on the Afghan-Pakistani border and could take credit for action in Iraq and Zarqawi could claim leadership of the world’s frontline jihad struggle.
Did you see the part about his coming to Iraq AFTER the U.S. invaded? Just some food for thought...

Answer 10

If a couple of hornets blow up my house then I'm going to the nest and stomping it into the ground. That way they wont attack again. Liberals seem to think by stomping that nest into the ground, we've actually helped the hornets reproduce. Insanity, fueled only by their irrational hatred for Bush