Which is worst, doing the wrong thing or doing nothing?

Question

From simple things like, if your TV breaks down, doing nothing means living on without a TV, doing the right thing is to get a new TV and doing the wrong thing can range from buying a new computer to throwing out your washing machine, ie doing anything that has nothing to do with the problem, ie the problem of not having a TV.

For an example of a bigger problem, 9/11 happened, thousands killed, many injured. Doing nothing means sweeping up the debris and carry on with our lives. Doing the right thing is to throughly investigate why these people did these horrendous acts, get to understand their motivation, ie know your enemy, then devise the proper strategy, military, politically and socially to counter any future threats. Doing the wrong thing is to unilaterally invade a secular country that is Iraq, remove a secular dictator that is Saddam Hussein and installing a secular democratic government thinking that it will work.

Vinny_Says_Relax: You think you are so great because you know alot about world politics? Isn't this forum about asking question? If I don't know why don't you enlighten me, instead of just insulting me?

LeAnne: I understand what you are getting at, but it is not what I'm advocating. As you said, doing nothing got us into the 9/11 situation. I'm not for doing nothing. Doing nothing is bad, very bad. But what is worst is doing the wrong thing. My point is doing the wrong thing is far worst than doing nothing.

LeAnn: There were no radical islamists in Iraq. We had Saddam to thank for that. He killed them when he saw them. There are now. Afganistan may be the right thing but Iraq is definitely the wrong thing.

LeAnn: "You really can't believe that doing nothing after 9/11 would mean "sweeping up the debris and carry on with our lives."

That is just defining what doing nothing means. Does not mean I'm for doing nothing.

Answer 1

both can be bad... it really depends on how "wrong" the wrong thing is...

the Bush situation would be like someone shot your TV and then you go over to the apartment where the shots came from and just go into some random apartment in the building and started breaking everything in the apartment...

which would get you arrested...

so... doing the wrong thing can be worse... at times

Answer 2

Essentially doing nothing may well have been the catalyst that resulted in the events of 9/11. We have finally confronted these lunatics - perhaps Iraq isn't the right battle ground and we certainly have made our share of errors, but none the less, we and our true allies have confronted this ideology of hatred and domination - while the rest of the world apparently is content to sit by while these Islamic terrorists slaughter thousands of innocent people.
I am proud that America has chosen to stand up to these dirt bags and let them know that their tactics of indiscriminate murder can no longer be carried out with impunity.
You really can't believe that doing nothing after 9/11 would mean "sweeping up the debris and carry on with our lives." It would have been very fool hardy to assume that after that devastating and very successful attack the terrorists would have abandoned any future planned attacks.
We cannot "terror-proof" our country and still maintain a semblance of freedom and civil rights. I think we are on the right track - bring the war to them, whether it be Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran or what ever. The radical militants must learn that their tactics and objectives will no longer be tolerated. Their demented crusade against all who question their beliefs and refuse to convert to Islam is a threat to every civilized nation on this planet and their history of indiscriminate murder of innocent men, women and children proves that statement.

Answer 3

I think the big picture with Iraq is to, establish an ally and a base of operations to attack Iran. Samething for Afghanistan, set up a base of operations and aquire another mideastern ally to, as Glen Beck says "Pop the head of the snake that is Iran". We all know the real threat is Iran. They support Islamic terrorist organizations with money, men and weaponry. They are also trying to aquire nuclear weapons, which they have said in the past that they would use on Israel.

So, if that is the true intention of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts and the War On Terror. Then everything we are doing IS the right thing.

Answer 4

Well in this case the doing the wrong things has exasperated the problems that caused 9/11 to start with I'd say that doing nothing would be a more favorable alternative

Answer 5

Yet another question asked by someone who knows absolutely nothing about world politics.

There was no 'invasion' of Iraq. The UN asked us to help enforce UN Resolution 1441 and we complied. Its truly as simple as that.

There were no radical Islamists in Iraq before 9/11? Then who invaded Kuwait, the radical Baptists?

Youre an idiot.

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