Why do people believe, Terror will follow us from Iraq?

Question

There are two arguments, I don't understand, for to stay the course.
1. We have to win?
2. If we don't win, the Terrorists will come to the USA?
Why, what for and wasn't 9/11 just a miserable failure of our none existing security in airports.

I stubbornly repeat, we had no security in airports, despite severe warnings from Europe since 1974. Frankfurt airport has 3000 special forces around the clock with dogs and automatic guns.

Answer 1

9-11 was just proof that republicans sleep at the wheel and drink like fish.

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Answer 2

Realistically speaking, the US has been and will continue to be a popular target. Why? The US has historically been the "biggest bully on the block" and is quite accustomed to raining down state-sanctioned terrorism upon people all over the world. A close examination of US foreign policy reveals that the US, at pretty much any given time, is always at war with someone, either covertly or overtly. Most of the wars the US is fighting are being fought, not by Americans, but by those we have trained and support abroad, such as the death squads that the US trains at the "School of the Americas." The result is there are a lot of angry, oppressed people who, lacking any other recourse to improve their lot, resort to violence. And, as the US is "the biggest bully on the block," all the other bullies will naturally line up to see who can take us down a peg.

Will terrorists come to the US if we "lose?" Well, we're going to find out, because the war is already lost. We will be pulling out sooner or later with few, if any, of our stated objectives in Afghanistan and Iraq achieved. What most Americans have consistently failed to understand is that the terrorists have always been much more interested in prolonging the war in order to, not only "bleed" us by the drag this war has created upon our military and upon our economy, but also by the continuing humiliation and loss of status the US faces around the world.

As for 9/11, that tragedy is the result of decades of truly awful foreign policy in the Middle East coupled with a rather blatant and offensive colonial attitude that the US has historically taken to that region. Quite simply, we don't understand the Middle East, much less Islam and those who use Islam for their political purposes. Our ignorance has cost us greatly and will continue to cost us for the foreseeable future.

However, historical blundering and military debacle aside, there is no certain guarantee that we will be struck again any time soon for two simple reasons. First, the US has never been that easy of a target. We've only had two major acts of terrorism in 231 years: Pearl Harbor and 9/11. Even with the strikingly poor security that the US has at its borders and ports, the US is protected by the fact that it just isn't easy to reach: terrorists have to travel through multiple countries and then cross oceans(either the Atlantic or the Pacific) without being detected and captured. It's difficult and it's expensive: had bin Laden not been independently wealthy, 9/11 would either have been delayed for years or it might not have happened at all. Secondly, now that we are in a post-9/11 world, security, though still inadequate, has improved greatly. In final analysis, we are about as safe as we have ever been...we just didn't realize how much or how little that means.

Answer 3

Yes, we have to defeat terrorism. Terrorists want to terrorize people to get their way, take over governments and force everyone to follow Sharia law. Terrorists have been caught after 9/11 in the US, trying further destruction. Remember the shoe bomber Richard Reed, and Carlos Padilla, the Pakis from New York? ICE has been catching muslim crazies crossing the border at Mexico. Terrorists are already here.
Why you ask...they are muslim crazies who don't hesitate to kill and be killed.
You don't know recent history. The 9/11 terrorism was planned for about 7 years before it took place. There was nothing wrong with security at airports. Box cutters, the weapons of choice, were allowed on air planes.

If you want to blame anyone, blame President Clinton and Jamie Gorrelick. They made up a rule that prevented the CIA and FBI from sharing information. The US government knew something was up. The suspicion was that planes were going to be hijacked overseas somewhere.

What amazes me is that you don't already know all of this.

Answer 4

The puppy dog defense has always been a fraud, but then so has most everything the Gang Of Pirates has said or done.

Even the 9/11 attacks were a general failure by the attackers, that was blown up to be a major success by Bush and the Media. If Julie-Annie had fixed the radios, instead of cutting them from the budget few Firemen would have died.

As it was 50,000 people worked in the Towers and "Only" about 2,000 died, about as many as died in New Orleans. But Bush hyped the numbers to 6,000 in the media for 9/11 and "a few hundred" for NOLA, even now they are still finding bodies there.

The BBC did a great story here
http://www.reallynews.com/video/pon/powerofnightmares.htm
If we had had an honest administration Bin Lauden would be a pariah running from his own people, instead of a hero to those Bush has bullied and killed.

To win you have to have a goal and a plan to get there, Bush has never had either, because leaving is not his goal. As long as he is killing our soldiers by leaving them in harms way with no plan, he can use it as an excuse to make himself ever more a dictator, that is his real plan, and it is right on schedule.

If he follows the pattern he is on, they will "discover" terrorists in the US just in time to ban the elections and stay in power. I cannot believe that they have centralized and concentrated all these powers just to hand it over to a Democrat who might use it to prosecute the tsunami of crimes this GOP has committed.

Answer 5

We need to win to secure peace for Iraq. The Iraqi people are the ones who will suffer the most if we leave prematurely. They will suffer even more than they are now. It will be the same as Vietnam. Millions died after we pulled out.
9/11 was a well researched plan. It was conceived and carried out by Muslim extremists. Our lax security at airports was part of the problem but not the reason for what happened on 9/11. I firmly believe that if we do not win in Iraq the Muslim extremists will attack us on our home soil again and again. They have already attacked us twice on our home soil. They have attacked our embassies and our ships all in the name of their religion. We must show them that we are the stronger nation and that they cannot beat us into submission. Why is that so hard for you to understand?

Answer 6

To lose would serve to embolden those who would use terrorism as a political tool.
If we were to pull out without allowing Iraq and Afghanistan time to establish a government that can train and maintain a self defense force,the terrorists will usurp the governments in the region and use those nations as a base of operations to plan and train for future attacks.
To believe that our leaving will result in the fanatics in that region to stop what they are doing and return home to a peaceful existence is ludicrous.
We will never have the ability to screen every passenger,cargo container,ship,plane,car,etc. to protect ourselves from an attack;the best course of action is to keep the terrorist organizations moving and not allow them a sanctuary country that will avail to them a base of operations.

Answer 7

I won't say to much but I'm part Native American Indian and it seems to me that history is repeating itself. Wounded Knee, remember; Sand Creek, remember; Navajo Long Walk; remember, Trail of Tears; remember, smallpox outbreak from issued blankets, remember! They chased Geronimo for 50 years. Why? They chased Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Chief Joseph. Why? They accused them of being the enemy.

Answer 8

There are over a million Iraqis displaced from their homes because of the War of Terror on Iraq. They will flood into Mexico and cross the border seeking Amnesty and take jobs from Americans! We must fight to keep them there in the ruins, not come over here.

Answer 9

No silly. Terroist go to Iraq to fight our military rather come to America and commit....well...terrorism.

See the terrorist Bush created are NOT into "terror" but military combat. They prefer to fight our military in Iraq and not use mechanisms of terror to scare and hurt citizens.

Since Bush hasn't had any more terroist do their job, it looks like Buhs is a great hero.

Answer 10

I don't think the powers that be really believe that. They use that to promote fear in the effort to retain support for their agenda. They said the same after Vietnam (the Communists would follow us home).

They also predicted years ago that the war was in it's final throes and we would be greeted as liberators and the revenues from oil would pay for it and cost Americans nothing. So much for predictions.