What is your definition of what it will take to win the 'War on Terror"?

Question

Winning Iraq is not the same thing as there are terrorists in a lot of other countries. Iran, Pakistan, South Korea, etc.

Answer 1

The "War on Terror" was made specifically because they know it can't be won, just like the "War on Drugs". The fat cats have continued the trend since the end of WWII to profit off of war. Those in power are doing everything they can to make sure that there is constant war so that they have constant profits. And, they don't care WHO they have to kill for money. They are more than willing to kill us too.

Answer 2

Terrorism is the weapon of someone outgunned technologically and politically, so we need to figure out the reasons people weaker than us feel the need to kick us in the shins.

The only relationship between the Iraq War & terrorism besides inciting more is collective punishment. It's like what we did to the Indians. If any whites were killed or harrassed by Indians, we would decimate the nearest Indian village without being too concerned about whether we got the actual culprits or whether this was even their village. The collective punishment logic in Iraq is we were attacked by Arabs, therefore we must kill Arabs, as one of the other people said above. It doesn't matter to people like that these aren't the Arabs who attacked us.

Americans wouldn't like it too much if a Canadian terrorist blew up something in China so China attacked us.

Obviously, if we are attacked, we should find and punish those responsible.

But we need to do the things that neither Clinton nor Bush did: change our foreign policy away from serving business interests primarily and respect the rights of other countries to go their own way.

Right now if a country does something that pisses of a major American corporation, that business calls up their senator or the White House, demands that something be done, and it is done.

Usually, that means someone in their military that we trained and clandestinely have on our payroll organizes a coup.
Over the last few decades, that was the case in Iran, Guatamala, Chile, and most recently it was attempted and failed in Venezuela.

In cases where that won't work, we invade like Haiti, Panama, and Iraq.

Other countries do the same when they can get away with it like Indonesia invading East Timor, when oil was discovered there, or Hitler seeking "Lebensraum," living room for his people, and oil in Russia, or Japan trying to expand their empire onto our and our allies turf. Even Saddam did it in the Early 90s when he was pissed that Kuwait was slant drilling into Iraq's oil fields.

This has been true for as long as we have been a world power as two time medal of honor winner Marine Corps General Smedley Butler wrote about in his book, WAR IS A RACKET.

We need to let people make economic decisions that might piss off our businesses, and choose their own economic system and domestic policies. That way, their mistakes aren't our fault. Iran was had a secular elected president in the 1950s that we overthrew. While the oil companies didn't like him, he would not necessarily have been antagonistic to the US in general.

Ironically, when we are forced to let countries go their own way, they are happy to deal with us on friendly terms. A decade after the Vietnam War was over they were making our Nikes.

It is likely if we had recognized the Iranian government after the 1979 revolution, or accepted the later overtures from moderates, we would not have a problem with them, and people would eventually get tired of the mullahs and shove them to the side, as was occuring before we invaded neighbors on two sides of Iran.

If someone doesn't have a job, or can't make enough money to support their family, and has no say in the political process in their country, or when they do get someone in power who tries to help them, then that guy gets removed by a foreign power, you could see someone going a little nuts.

Imagine if FDR had been removed by a foreign government at the height of the Great Depression, that foreign power picked a general to run the US, who then rolled back all the New Deal reforms. How would you retaliate?

Most people like democracy and like our culture. The change we need to make is fairly simple: our government's actions need to match our pro-democracy rhetoric instead of saying one thing and doing what the Chamber of Commerce tells them.

Answer 3

No such thing as a war on terror! It is a con to get you into giving the rich a blank check and never having to prove what they did with your money!

You can fight terrorism, but that is no war!

"And what the hell is terrorism, anyway? It's not a thing; it's not a place; it's not a person. It is a political and military strategy, that's all. Having a 'War On Terrorism' is as ridiculous as having a 'War on Flanking Maneuvers'. You'll end terrorism when there's no longer anything for anybody to get pissed off about."

"As for now, maybe if we looked at why people are pissed at us, we'd begin to understand. Hell, it doesn't matter whether they're right or wrong; it's what they perceive that motivates them. What you have to address is why they perceive things as they do. Only then will you start to get a clue. And spare me the bullshit about them hating us because of our freedom. We haven't been truly free in a long time. And now we're letting all this demagoguery convince us to give up what little liberty we have left. Big Brother Lives!"

Col David Hackworth, 2 DSC's, 10 Silver Stars, 8 Purple hearts!

Answer 4

I thought Iraq was first invaded because they supposedly had weapons of mass destruction. They mixed everybody's mind so well they can't tell day from night.

If you're familiar with the term State Terrorism, I think the answer to your question is Impeach bush, break up with the bipartisan "democracy" and make real direct democracy work in the USA. That is, people go out and take the power. And of course I don't mean with guns and crap alike.

Answer 5

There is no "winning" the war on terror. What we must do is take out the terror threats as they present themselves. The tools we need are border and port security and intelligence services that are capable of working with the intelligence services of friendly nations and running covert agents in countries that are not. As long as there are fanatics that are willing to kill innocent civilians in the pursuit of the political agendas, there will be terrorism.

Answer 6

Terrorism can only be defeated by identifying its underlying causes. Then taking action to remove the underlying contentions.

Treat the cause not the symptom

Answer 7

By taking out as many as you can in the current conflict. Letting other countries know that should a terrorist attack happen on American soil, and a link is made to their country, we will bomb them back to the dark ages with out remorse or regrets.

We will not tolerate attacks against Americans and yes, we will send as many of them to meet their maker as it takes to get the word out.

On CNN, even the woman are getting involved. It was explained that in Islam, they are so repressed that the freedom of Paradise and all those virgins, makes them want to die for their leaders.

It is some really sick people who are willing to just die to take out others. It didn't work with the Kamikaze's of WW2, and wont work now.

Answer 8

Taking out the terrorists, from bottom up, while, at the same time, not creating new ones by aiding terrorists recruitment by our actions.

Answer 9

A Republican winning the Presidency, taking back the house and Senate in '08,

Answer 10

Where's Cutejenns recruitment papers?Or is she one of those spoiled, little repub children who like to mouth off?