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Someone responding to this question: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aol3HZ12bDvwRrtKjonJLGnY7BR.?qid=20070509120142AAwmxal

responded by saying that Islamic jihadists declared war on us years ago and now all we're doing is deciding to do something about it.

But if that's the case, aren't we, by acknowledging their authority to declare war on us (a courtesy usually only extended to other nations), just validating their cause? In other words, if we just tightened up our security, didn't allow people of questionable ties into our country in the first place, had tighter immigration laws and didn't let pizza delivery guys have the run of military bases... wouldn't we, by ignoring their call to jihad, be placing less credibility on it?

not gh3y: They've attacked us before, and we didn't invade an uninvolved sovereign nation as a result. Sure, it'd be nice if those measures had been implemented before 9/11. But they weren't. So why not implement them now? Suddenly you think the U.S. is immune to terrorist attacks as long as we're fighting a war in Iraq?

vcxzzxcv: Iraq didn't attack us on 9/11. And Bush hasn't punished Osama for doing it.

cry me a river: Of course we should allow Muslims in this country. There are many American-born Muslims. But background checks are not a bad thing. Lengthier waits to be admitted into the country. Better reasons for coming here.

Answer 1

yes, you are correct.. make their cause impossible to act upon, ignore them .. and they will become discouraged... or just die out.

it's not "ignore them and they will go away" it's "discourage them and their cause will die out"


by playing their game we actually encourage them.

Answer 2

maybe I'm a bit slow.
you invaded Iraq ,a country that posed no threat to you ,a country that actively discouraged terrorists from operating on their soil. none of the 9/11 terrorists came from Iraq.
most of the participants of 9/11 came from country's that are actually your Allies. coincidentally , they also have a lot of oil.
so now you want to ban Muslims.lets have a roll call of all the nations who had a go at the yanks.
lets ban the Germans,Japanese,Vietnamese Mexicans ,and definitely the British. I'm not sure if your southern states were just having a go through boredom.
just pull up the drawbridge ,let nobody in .
become insular and worry not that your foreign pollicy is creating most of the problems that are causing you harm. you could start by electing a president that doesn't have a direct line to god.
thank you and god help America

Answer 3

Hussein Al Bama the founder of the Muslim brotherhood declared war on western civilization in 1928. It is about time that we as Americans recognize that the fundamentalist Muslims desire our deaths.

Ignoring the call for jihad will not place less credibility on it. Ignoring that there are some Muslims that want to destroy uis will not make them go away and not attack us. If we ignored pornography it will not go away because there will always be someone who wants to partake in pornography. The same is with the whako Muslims that wish us harm. There will always be someone that wants to destroy the US and its allies.

Answer 4

I have been saying for years that we cannot say we are safe while a terrorist could walk into our country through Mexico or Canada. It seems like we should have shut our borders on 9-12-01

Answer 5

"declaring war" in the answer was used in a figurative sense.
Like when the mafia war is going on - it's not a declared war, it's a sequence of violence.

Having said that - I think we should expand our definition of who we can declare war on. Right now, we can only declare war on States. I think we should be able to declare war on organizations (like al queerda).

Answer 6

the terrorists never expected it to work this well. Sacrifice a pawn to send you into a war with everyone. Inflame hatred against you by provoking you into losing your cool. Works everytime. What are ya chicken? Bulk balk balk balk. Lets race.

Answer 7

As far as they are concerned they don't care if you acknowledge them or not they still want to kill you and will do whatever they can to accomplish their goal. So, turn a blind eye to the situation at hand if you choose, but know that they will not.

Answer 8

Nothing I nor anyone else could change a Lame Duck's mind.Keep believing what you're saying...and...just maybe the next Pizza guy will show up at your front door......

But Sir....I just wanted a Pizza....not a Jihad!!!!!!!

Answer 9

I think being able to bring down the WTC on US soil and killing 3000 Americans in one attack was enough to EARN the attention we are giving them.

That was me you are referring to BTW.

Edit: Iraq is just part of the broader war on terror. The guys that were going to attack that military base in America this week didn't have ANY TIES WHATSOEVER in the 9/11 attacks. By your logic, Why would we even be monitoring them? And as for Bin Laden, if he was as easy to capture or kill as Saddam, he would have been the first terrorist dead. If you don't think those involved in the War on Terror aren't doing everything possible to deal with OBL, you are probably wrong.

Answer 10

yes, but you have to remember, Bush needed to have a war to get into the history books, unfortunatly it backfired on him.