Terror is not a state. Terror is not a society. Terror is an emotion. Who is responsible for your emotions? You are. Calling a campaign a "war" is a way to stir people up emotionally and get them to sacrifice some of the things they value. The "war" on poverty and the "war" on drugs don't seem to have been very effective. Is claiming that there is a "war" on "terror" partly an attempt to try to control us?
2007-02-16 04:15:21 · 13 answers · asked by fra59e 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
"War on terrorism" doesn't cut it either. Terrorism is not a people or a society or an army. Terrorism is a tactic. A method. A tactic typically adopted by a combatant who is much weaker than his adversary. Sane people do not declare war on a tactic.
2007-02-16 04:29:10 · update #1
Agreed. It should have been stated "War on Terrorism."
2007-02-16 04:18:01 · answer #1 · answered by Groovy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that the war on terror is an idiotic way to say whatever it is they are trying to put across to us. Terror is a state of mind and emotion and how can you wage a war on that and how could you win in a great mass? There is no such thing in my eyes. It is merely a play on words to me to get a response and it has missed me all together. What Bin Laden did was terrifying but you cant wage war on the action, just the man and his followers. And once that is done, then what? I just feel like it is like the terror alert that they give us...yellow,,,orange ....red...what? All something to get a response from us and what we know is all we Americans have to do is look at New York and we don't need to be kept up in arms about this...We have nor never will forget but who needs to be elevated are the powers that be to watch out for us and stop playing games with us,
2007-02-24 00:35:13 · answer #2 · answered by Melody D 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No the war on terror is infact a government attempt to cower us into giving up our rights when is the last time any one was afraid of anyone other than the government
i have felt and seen much more terror causing action from the feds than anyone else maybe bush in his insanity plans on attcking the white house
2007-02-16 04:30:49 · answer #3 · answered by mark s 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I personally believe that it is almost impossible to win a war on a feeling, mostly one that is so frequently felt by so many people on earth. Fear is an enemy that a lot of People individually battle every day of their lives. The unknown is always scary. And the images we have of 9/11 are horribly scary. I totally support and respect our troops. I am prepared to send my own son or myself in to fight for our country should a draft ever be put into activation again. BUT having said that, I feel that out troops have been mislead as we as Americans have been. How would we KNOW if we won??? We cannot think we are winning now when so many American soldiers are dying..we are just taking the death that we are conjuring on the home-front and transferring it to our troops that are positioned around the world. Someone is still dying. Who is to say when "fear" is conquered?
2007-02-16 04:31:49 · answer #4 · answered by Nightshade 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everytime the Government says they're a war on something, there's more of it. The WAR ON TERROR IS A HOAX. It's being used to keep us in a constant state of fear, in order to falsely give up our rights and liberties for "security." Wake up, and learn that our government has carried out terror attacks on it's people to blame on foreign countries in order to control them and us.
2007-02-16 05:10:28 · answer #5 · answered by Ted S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We loosely talk about "war on terror". Your comments afterwards
are correct.
We are more bothered about STATE TERRORISM. State Terrorism
is the mother of all terrorism.Their will be always some people
who will dissent with the government policies.If you try to coerce
them,subjugate them then they become terrorists.Sometimes
foreign elements encourage them. Good governance is the
answer to all terrorism.
2007-02-24 02:09:01 · answer #6 · answered by samiran_bandyopadhyay 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a war on terrorists,regardless of what country they come from.It is similar to the war on crime.We hunt criminal and terrorists.A better Question might be why do some call it a war against Iraq or the Iraqi people,that is not what it is.We are helping the Iraqis to rid their country of Terrorists.Not just for them, but because they are terrorists that want all non Muslims dead.
2007-02-22 15:11:26 · answer #7 · answered by shawnn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Terror" is an abstract. I agree that the War on Terror is akin to the War on Drugs, in that there is no definite enemy and no definite way to quell the problem (which is not entirely defined in the first place).
2007-02-16 04:40:42 · answer #8 · answered by MishMash [I am not one of your fans] 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's just a marketing tactic spread by politicians, really. "War on terror" sounds like a cool slogan and it's sensationalist. Anything that's sensational is spread like wildfire on the media and that's how it catches on.
2007-02-16 04:21:40 · answer #9 · answered by zucchero81 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"the war on terror" is the height of irony. what is more terrifying than when the world goes mad and decides the way of peace is though death and devastation (war)?
I'm glad they haven't taken the same level of force in the "war on poverty".
2007-02-16 04:24:09 · answer #10 · answered by Alan S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋