Can anyone answer this war on terror question for me?

Question

-19 terrorists caused 9/11

-There are 1.2 Billion Muslims spread out all over the world any of which could be terrorists,

-The leaders of Al Qaeda have set up new training camps in Pakistan & Bush is afraid to go get them.

-And most of the US military is just in Iraq, caught in the middle of a civil war, & in 6 years they still haven't stopped Al Qaeda in Iraq.

-If the US military can't stop Al Qaeda in even just Iraq how the heck will they ever win the war on terror & what about all the Al Qaeda terrorists who are NOT IN IRAQ?

Answer 1

I think you have a pretty good question,and you can add to that ,and they still haven't caught the mastermind Bin Laden and his buddies who master minded most of the worst terrorist destruction.It is true however that we have caught some wanna be terrorists and many have been caught by other countries.

Answer 2

"19 terrorists caused 9/11"

Actually they were not the only ones. Just because you plan the attack does not make you any less guilty of murder.

"There are 1.2 Billion Muslims spread out all over the world any of which could be terrorists"

Which is why it is important to remember that not all Muslims are gunning for the destruction of the US.

"The leaders of Al Qaeda have set up new training camps in Pakistan & Bush is afraid to go get them"

What most people do not understand is that President Musharaff is struggling to maintain power in a country where a large portion of the population support Al-Qaeda. A direct invasion would be as faulty as Imperial Germany's Sinking of the Lusitania.

"And most of the US military is just in Iraq, caught in the middle of a civil war, & in 6 years they still haven't stopped Al Qaeda in Iraq"

Not Most of it. Of the approximately 1,000,000 men in our total armed forces far less than 20% is stationed there. If we left right after we overthrew Saddam the Bloodshed would be far worse. Not to mention that the Sunnis are beginning to see that Al-Qaeda really does not have their best interest at heart. Has it ever occurred to you that the War may have simply diverted resources that would otherwise had gone to a more successful terrorist attack on US soil? As soon as congress let our troops do the job properly We can begin to see real progress.

-If the US military can't stop Al Qaeda in even just Iraq how the heck will they ever win the war on terror & what about all the Al Qaeda terrorists who are NOT IN IRAQ?

The point has reached now that if we fail in Iraq the war is pretty much lost between Iran getting a puppet state and and terrorist organizations getting the rallying cry they need to overthrow the rest of the Middle East. As for those not in Iraq it comes down to whether the US, NATO and Afghan troops can end the Taliban threat and destroy enough of the Opium trade to make fund raising impossible. When Bush ordered all of thos bank accounts frozen it had placed a crippling blow towards the fund raising efforts to many cells.

Answer 3

If you are looking at the terrorist war from a symmetric perspective, or a 1st or 2nd generation of war perspective, of course one may see it as unworkable or in a deafest view.

An Asymmetric 4th generation of warfare conflict between states and non-state actors, is not so cut and dry.

The question you may want to ask is: How do states defeat non-state actors who fight asymmetrically, unconventionally, and ignore the rules of warfare?

If the U.S. can use expeditionary maneuver warfare to overthrow and destabilize regimes in less than 30 days
( Afghanistan and Iraq), what should be done afterward?

Mr. Bush came up with the whole "democracy makes the world safer" because the American people and our allies don't have the stomach for full blown terrorist war!

And because they don't, we have this low to medium intensity conflict that drags on as fledgling governments try to stand up and defend themselves. The U.S. doesn't benefit from low to medium intensity conflict, our enemies do.

The whole entire region needs to be de-stabilized........the gloves need to come off, and neither party nor the U.S. citizens have the stomach for victory at this point. The terrorist war will not end in our victory any time soon. But in the end they will be smashed!

Answer 4

First of all, we will fail because we are treating this like every other war. You can have no military victory when your enemy is an ideal. And that's what we are fighting here, an ideal. This is a culture that has endured centuries of colonialism, extreme poverty, and no toilet paper. The backlash was going to happen anyway whether it was under the banner of religious extremism or not. And every bomb that we drop just creates more of them.

Winning this war will require more than the standard two dimensional "let's go fight 'em" strategy employed by our military for the last 100 years. The cowboy approach isn't going to work this time. What will? I ain't got a clue, that's why we need to start electing smarter people.

Answer 5

The 19 terrosits are Bush and Co.
Anyone muslim or otherwise can become a terrorist.
Bush inc.along with USA inc. GB inc. created Al Qaeda basically from thin air.Need we say more.
The Bush lads created the civil war themselves,in a rush to get to the oil,they forgot they had to exterminate a few folks.
THEY ARE the war on terror along with their British Lackeys' ,and the rest of us,who support them because we are too afraid that the truth just may,"Set us free"
Come on laddie get a grip,smell the shi*,it is shi*!.

Answer 6

Terrorists have no domicile, yet they could desire to be someplace. in the event that they're someplace then somebody is giving them help and help. The Taliban government grew to become into helping Al Qaeda, so we attacked. There could desire to be intense effects for helping terrorism. The warfare in Iraq had little or no longer something to do with the warfare on terror. Saddam did no longer adjust to UN sanctions related to WMD's so we chosen to enforce those sanctions. it is merely a handy results of the invasion that Al Qaeda has additionally moved into Iraq the place we can shoot them.

Answer 7

Funny question. But, if you read these Y! Q & A's, you know that the majority are on the side of Al Qaeda and are against President Bush.
That is why President Bush cannot stop the terrorists, because most of the American public supports and defends terrorism.

Answer 8

we need to be care-full with Pakistan, because the gov't /president has a very precarious position and if we charge into Pakistan there may well be a revolution like what happened in Iran in the 1970's.

and with Pakistan's nuclear weapons, having them fall into a leadership of fanatical muslims is not a good choice

Answer 9

It's not a war on terror, It's a war for profits.

For Nothingusefu... : I don't support terrorists and I don't support Dubya (he support profits).

Answer 10

We still have not learned that "war" with tanks, bombers, is not the way to win against guerrillas, in spite of Vietnam and Iraq.