Why are we still fighting the war on terror?

Question

http://reason.com/blog/show/121323.html

This just happened to be at the top of reddit.com today during lunch and I thought they made an interesting point.

What do you think?

Wow. I'm fairly sure none of you even read the link I posted.

Answer 1

Radley Balko make excellent points. The fact that there are many people who hate what America has done to them seems to be used by the republicans to scare people into following them wherever they want to take them.
It is not surprising that if one creates enemies those enemies will try to extract revenge. The republicans have found an easy way to capitalize on that idea.
If they were really worried they would stop abusing people.

They are not worried. They seem to be saying to themselves: "We'll abuse the poor Islamic bastards and we'll make money from our bastards"

Answer 2

I grew up living abroad as an American. The War on terror has been going on since before I was born and Americans have been kidnapped, killed and attacked abroad for the last 30 years. When I was 9 years old a couple of Air Force families on leave were blown up outside the Frankfurt Air Port. In the morning our buses and cars had to go through bomb checks all the while we just let it go, did nothing about it. 9/11 happens and I though maybe Americans had finally been woken up to reality and thought how sad it was that it took that for us to act on global terrorism. Now it seems that the truth is Americans today are not interested in stopping Genocide, and we are not particularly humanitarian any more. Stories of mass graves and footage of chemical bombing of entire villages dosen't bother us anymore. We don't feel we should do anything about these things. WW2 how whole country stopped and fought the Atrosities going on in Europe. I think maybe a million today have the courage of that generation. I think I now know what it was like to be a Roman citizen right before the fall. Watching my contrymen become so weak of character that losing everything is reasonable until it interups our leasure and then we just look for someone to blame and never fix the problem.

Answer 3

There have been 20 major terror attempts on the US since 9-11 None of them were successful. You may think that putting the country on higher alert is terrorizing in and of itself; but what would the Dems say if there were a successful attack with no warning? What did Bush know and when did he know it? Why did he not warn the public of the emerging pattern? etc..

Answer 4

We will only see the end of war when we die. Islamic people think that if they sacrifice themselves then they will get 7 virgins in heaven. So, ultimately women are the cause of war. Just kidding, but that was pretty funny.

Answer 5

Because people are still looking to bring nuclear devices to AMerica to kill us, or me anyway, your not from here are you.

Save AMerica, out a socialist today

Answer 6

Because the job needs to be done in its entirety.

Answer 7

Once you get on the back of a tiger, how do you get off?

Answer 8

We are fighting a war on terror; we are creating a war of terror!

George Nazi Bush has legitimized terrorism

What better recruiting sergeant could Bin Laden have than the President of the United States?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6037.htm

George W. Bush - Terrorist in the White House
http://www.nogw.com/warforisrael.html
THE WAR FOR ISRAEL

The mother of all terrorists...to be taken quite literally!
http://whatreallyhappened.com/terrormother.html

War does not eradicate terrorism “proven”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3401.htm

The Real Terror Network
Paul Bremer, the new ‘Gauleiter’ of Iraq
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3243.htm

Anatomy of "Terror Experts"
Meet the Mandarins of Abu Ghraib
http://counterpunch.org/petras08072004.html

BIG OIL and TERRORISTS
by Sherman H. Skolnick
A good handle on a number of details is necessary to understand this subject.
1. In 1953, British and U.S. oil interests were upset with the popular head of Iran, Premier Mossadegh, who demanded a bigger cut for his countrymen of Iran's exploited oilfields. With an elite unit of U.S. Military Intelligence, (mostly Afro-Americans from Chicago who seemed to fit in good with the people of color in Iran) together with the money and plans of British Intelligence, Mossadegh was overthrown, and Shah Pahlavi was restored to his "Peacock Throne". [The coup facilitators later became part of a Chicago law firm that included George Leighton, a dark-skinned Portugeuse, who went on in later years to be a federal district judge and then mob-mouthpiece off the bench. We have the documents from the National Archives showing this group of former assassins/government overthrowers, were the secret attorneys in 1963 for CIA patsy falsely blamed for the murder of JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald.]
The press-fakers told us little of what was involved. Such as that the Shah and his elders had been pro-Nazi and caused quite a problem for the Allies in World War 2. Former intelligence spook, Kermit Roosevelt, wrote a book, "Counter Coup", about it, letting slip the involvement of British spies in the overthrow of Mossadegh. His book was withdrawn from U.S. bookstores before distribution. Only 8 copies were left and we have several of those suppressed books. Later, a sanitized version was issued.
2. The British purpose On behalf of the British Monarchy, under the Palestine Mandate, British Intelligence planned for a Jewish-dominated Palestine, to be put in position to irritate the surrounding Arab countries soaked with oil. It was the British historical method Divide and Conquer. That is, use the new State of Israel to keep the oily Arabs off-balance. A British-owned newspaper, the Jerusalem Post, steers the pot repeatedly fomenting troubles, between the Jews and the Arabs.
3. The British Monarchy financed the oil endeavors of George Herbert Walker Bush, which later became the firm of which he owns a great part, Pennzoil. See our website series, "Greenspan Aids and Bribes the Bush Family," as to how Bush used crooked high court judges in Texas to grab onto their competitor, Texaco, whose major source of oil is Iraq. When the Queen of England visits America, she stays at the home in Texas of Bush the Elder's trusted secret money handler, William Stamps Farish III, who owns and boards the studs that mate with the Queen's mares. Also on our website are the secret documents of Federal Reserve wire transfer records, showing the joint account of George Herbert Walker Bush and the Queen of England, at the bank owned by the Monarchy, Coutts Bank, London. Billions and billions of dollars from the dope trafficking trade, go through that joint account, with the aid and blessing of the Czar of the Federal Reserve.
As to the Bush family and the British Monarchy, see "George Bush, the Unauthorized Biography" by Webster Griffin Tarpley and Anton Chaikin.

Answer 9

Because we are not 45 years into it yet..

Answer 10

we haven't started the real war on terror.