Can some genius out there tell me how you can win a war on terror (or any war) w/o being able to cross into...

Question

any neighboring country that harbors & supports your enemy? Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia & Pakistan all support &/or harbor terrorists & the US military does next to nothing to try & get them.

Unless Bush decides to start invading a lot of other Muslim countries that are bordering Iraq/Afgahistan the US military will NEVER be able to win the war in Iraq or Afganhistan. Is it a smart move to let US troops fight a war that they can never win?

Answer 1

Who said anything about winning? They don't want to win. They want to lose.

Answer 2

well actually we cant win a war on terror because of the nature of terrorism ; its not a set of people or a identifible enemy; we cannot win in any land because if we invade these countries we will create more and more contempt for the united states in the invaded countries thus creating terrorist i think that we should have however gone into tafganihstan though only to look and hunt for alqueda but the alqueda in iraq and other insurdgents were in exeince were created by us invading iraq....sadam was a bad man but i dont buy the wmd or fighting terror reasons for the war ; if we were told that we were cleanning up an old mess(and genicide human rights violations) than i would respect the war more however thats not the reason we were given so how can i support the war? we need to finish in iraq and get out in a respectable and stabize the country that we had no business going into in the first place to see it off well and then deal with other hot spots(terrorism) thu air strikes, diplomatic solutions, spying and other more inteligent choices(in and out military ops) and cutting fund strings(financial) .... not only this but the us should almost never be a offensive party in a rwar because the way our goverment works we dont have that unititarian goverment style that allows for years and years of war without going bacgk and forth for support from the public affecting troop numbers and funding

Answer 3

You can't win a 'War on Terror' at all, since Terror isn't a nation, it's a tactic.

You obviously can't win a war if you aren't willing to fight then enemy, either.


Is it a smart move to let US troops fight a war that they can never win?

Obviously not, though the alternatives either a) surrender or b) fighting a total war so unpopular (at home, and internationally) that it would spell the end of the leader who decided to do it.

Answer 4

This is how, make a secret deal with a few other strong countries to conduct a secret war(in all forms) on the trouble makers country with the understanding that when bad country falls that they will get to keep a part of the neighboring country, example: Russia and china get to divide up Iran after they are broken into pieces

Answer 5

I'm no genius, but I have something that alot of genius' lack, common sense. Just imagine what would have happened and where we would be now, if we only had people with common sense running our country? The war is a lost cause, it's been a never ending battle, and will never end. They have more people willing to die than we do. For hundreds of years, this has been the way these countries have conducted themselves, they kill each other for their beliefs, we have a rule as Americans, we allow anyone to believe however they feel they want to believe. So, we just don't get it. Our religions make money off their followers, their religions teach their followers to kill anyone of a different religion. Terrorist are being created for the purpose of killing their non-believers on every side of every religion, and they are going to target Americans for being in the way, and because they also don't go along with the religious program that makes these countries what they are and have always been. Today, Obama's backing of sending more troops to die for no reason, just took him off my list for potential presidents in 2008, and every other presidential candidate who goes along with sending more troops to Iraq or where ever they are sending them in the Middle East, will be off the list as well. We should get the troops out of there, not send more in. Back to common sense, it's the thing that is lacking in so many people, it's what we need any person running for president to possess, so that we don't keep running down this road. No, we can't fight every country that helps terrorist to keep doing their job, it is a big hint to us that terrorism is an acceptable way of life used by the Middle East. Therefore, it's not going away, you can't fight it, cause it's like a disease that has invaded the body and no amount of medicine can get rid of it, the doctors can work and try to save it and the person it's ravishing, but soon the doctors have to just back off and allow it to run it's course, you mourn the dead, but you go back to your own, and know that you may not be able to save the world, but if you can take care of your own, you are doing the best you can. If each one of us just takes care of our own, it would make the world a better place. If our country would take care of it's own people, it would be a better country, and when our country is taken care of, we can afford to help other countries to take care of theirs as well.

Answer 6

No it's not a smart move, and I don't know what makes Bush/Cheney think they can change what's been going on for thousands of years. They will continue to kill each other with our troops right in the middle. Bring our men and women home for a much needed r+r. Then let's do some strategical planning before we do anything this stupid again. God Bless our military and all they've done.

Answer 7

I would advocate going into Iran. Iran has declared war on us since 1979. If you take Iran, Syria will implode on its own.

Will the Democrats you elected in the last election free up funding for the troops and advocate victory by pushing an invasion into Iran to replace Mahmoud Ahmedinejad?

With Harry Reid in power and Nancy Pelosi in power, my guess is no.

Answer 8

What do you suggest......
Invading the whole Muslim World?
Or just surrendering to the Terrorists, like the Democrats have already done?

Bush warned us ahead of time that the War on Terror will go on for years.
It will not end just because the Democrats surrender. And even if the Democrats support the terrorists, it will still go on.

Answer 9

A war is what the Romans, and the Barbarians fought. A war is what WWI, WWII were. Everything since those times have been political games. Unless you are willing to overtake a people, an entire people, you will not win.

Answer 10

The problem is we were fighting a war on terra when we invaded afghanistan. We were going after Al Qaeda and had them on their heels until we decided to invade Iraq. We took our eye off the ball and let the situation fester and even grow when we decided to invade another country.

Answer 11

There are so many reasons why this war can't be won, that being one of them. The cowardice to call up a draft being a second one, the failure to close the borders is a third andstill allowing tons of illegals and middle easterners on Visa to come into our country being a fourth.

That's just the entree.