What are the costs for the U.S.'s War on Terror?

Question

I believe that with every freedom we give up to protect the United States from terrorists that we lose a part of what made America great. Who else has made the connection from todays "War on Terror" to yesterdays "Red Scare"? The US government is yet again pointing at something and telling us it is the source of our problems. Fear terrorists, why does it seem that we are doing their job for them? And Why do people want to attack the U.S.? I beleve that where we once lead by example as a nation, we now expect people to go where we tell them to go . No longer are we leading the free world but we have strapped ourselves, as a nation, on the backs of lesser nations making them support our weight. America has become fat and bloated...diseased... and is there anyway we can continue to be a world leader? Can we question the reason we are being attacked?

Answer 1

None of my civil liberties were ever impeded by the war on terror. But then again, I'm not doing illegal activities. You forget that the red scare was great for the economy. If it has the same effect, which is should. It should help keep the US the leading nation in the free world. It has the opposite effect of "strapping ourselves".

Answer 2

The point is that "No longer are we leading the free world" people don't want to be lead, by America they want to govern themselves.

Can we question the reason we are being attacked?

To be blunt, people although it looks like they like America, don't like the people. Some Americans think that they are God's gift to the world...and that pisses people off. Americans go into a country and think that everyone will bow down to them and that's just not true.

Some Americans don't respect other people's culture calling them primitive and backward and they think that their opinions are correct and everyone else wrong.

And that is some reasons why the US is being attacked

Answer 3

It is NEVER wrong to have US support the War on Terror. But it is immoral and insane for those who used nations as scapegoats just to show off our might and pretend that we are really fighting terror, and as a result give reason for terrorists to mushroom out of otherwise decent common folks. Terrorists in Iraq were scared having their heads chopped off by Saddam. They remained passive in Iraq or ran away from Iraq. Our occupation of Irag allowed them to become active, with many re-entering Iraq to chop off our Americans' heads! Yep, Bush and the NeoCons were right. we gave them freedom in Iraq to keep killing our Troops! Without Iraqi insiders, how do they know where our Troops, etc. were moving? How did they enter the most secured areas of the Green Zone? We are probably training those that are killing our people! And that is the most costly price we have to pay!

Answer 4

Adolph Hitler said the way to control a people is to plant fear within the populace. The Bush administration and its 'crack' Department of Homeland Security has created awareness of the "danger"; has planted the fear in many Americans; and has started its own terrorism tactics to take over the country.
Benjamin Franklin once said: "When people fear the government, it is tyranny. When the government fears the people, it is liberty."
One of the costs of freedom is living in a country where we, at times, might find ourselves in danger. The government cannot protect us from everything; any government that tries is more than likely trying to protect itself. The last organization any American citizen should trust is its federal government; it has lied to us far too many times. -RKO- 05/19/07

Answer 5

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Answer 6

What would the world do if the United States withdrew into isolationism. History has much to say about this. True, U.S. foreign policy is far from perfect, but consider the alternatives. Adolf Hitler was one of them. Sadly, the only thing we really learn from history though, is that we don't learn anything from history.

Answer 7

Less than the cost to clean up New York City from the effects of a dirty nuke blast.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

I absolutely agree with you. Everything you said is exactly how I feel also.

At this point we can only make our voices heard by voting and by argument and furious debate on this fiasco.

Answer 10

yawn! oh sorry, was there a legitimate question there, or just a rant?