at least that's not the answer I'm looking for
2007-02-12 12:52:02 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
The "enemy" is undefined and there are no clearly stated goals so you have no way of telling whether or not you're winning.
In addition, you spend more on routing out the "enemy", in lives or dollars or morality or civil liberties, than the actual damage committed by the enemy
2007-02-12 12:59:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
America won the Cold War by spending the Soviet Union almost into bankruptcy. The War on Drugs is a lost war because there is no definable enemy, and fighting soft drugs like marijuana is laughable unless you get you get your butt kicked into jail, thus forcing a wholesale release of violent criminal back onto the street. The War on Terror is a costly affair which will drag on and costs lives for a long time. Victory against a indefinable enemy is tough and other terror factions will arise.
2007-02-12 13:33:32 · answer #2 · answered by answer boy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a battle that will, and is never won. It just burns itself out. Did we win the cold war, no, just because the Russian's moved there nukes don't mean we won. The war on drugs will never be won, that is a fact. And the war on terror can't and will never be won. There has be terrorism and drugs since the dawn of man, and will be till the end of man.....
2007-02-12 12:57:38 · answer #3 · answered by My Lord . 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that none of them used weapons during the battle but more or less tension by bulding there armies in the Cold war and other methods than using weapons during the war on drugs and the war on terror or it could be that nobody really did win in anyone of those wars.
2007-02-12 12:56:25 · answer #4 · answered by jasmine :) 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
-Fear. Cold War, fear of communism. Drugs, fear of the decadence of society and the old values of propreity and conservatism. War on Terror, fear of fundamentalism and terrorism.
-Each is also an international issue. Cold War stretched from Cuba to Angola to Berlin to Vietnam and even space. War on Drugs deals with mostly Latin American foriegn policy and border control. War on terror deals with the Middle East but even in Russia with the rebels and Spain with the ETA and Ireland with the Irish terrorist groups.
-Each also deals with belief conflicts and societal confrontations. Cold War it was a political conflict. Drugs its a values conflict. Terror is a cultural and belief conflict.
-Money. So much money has been poured into each "war".
-Solutions to each conflict:
Well cold war's done with no solution needed.
Drugs. Legalize marijuana. It will devestate the drug trafficking, save millions in jailing "drug criminals", government can tax and regulate drugs, and by making marijuana legal and available it encourages people to deviate from the harder **** like cocaine and meth.
Terror. Education, education, education. The coming generation needs to understand that global cooperation and understanding must prevail. They must learn to set aside their beliefs and radicalism and place humanity as a whole above their own culture. We succeeded in Germany by ridding fascism out of the minds of the new German generation after WWII and in Japan we eradicated the imperial mindset. We can do the same in the Middle East its just a matter of global cooperation and persistence and determination in the countries with terror issues.
2007-02-12 13:01:44 · answer #5 · answered by hobbitgonewild 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are all a means for the government to detract the lemmings. The lemmings are so worried about these different things that the government can do whatever it wants. i.e. spend billions upon billions of dollars and use these things as the reason. It is the perfect system. Create the thing for the right hand and no one watches the left hand.
2007-02-12 13:01:42 · answer #6 · answered by trichbopper 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They are not actually wars. Wars are waged against people using violence. These are abstract concept wars. However, nine times out of ten, abstract concepts wars really are simply excuses to use violence on people and in places that the government knows would never be supported or allowed by the people.
2007-02-12 12:56:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Republicans.
2007-02-12 12:59:46 · answer #8 · answered by Popcorn Playa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that what they all have in common is they are nothing but a bloody standstill with no winner or loser. You could also add the Vietnam War to this list.
2007-02-12 12:55:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
They are all based on fears, lies, power and money. And the story the Government tells the people doesn't add up with the facts. hmmmm.
2007-02-12 13:00:09 · answer #10 · answered by darklydrawl 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋