Dont you know that if we dont win the war on terror, WE DONT WIN?

Question

Losing this war will have GRAVE reprocussions for 3-5 generations to come. I DONT WANT TO LOSE

We are engaged now, I dont want to disengage, and risk another 911, DO YOU?

Answer 1

One important correction .. . . . If we don't win this one , there is no tomorrow .

Uncomfortable as it may seem , that's the reality of this terrible scourge of Radical Islam .

Answer 2

I agree with your sentiment. However, in the interest of good communications with the "any war is evil" crowd I would phrase things quite a bit differently.

It is impossible to "win" a war on terror because, unlike traditional conflicts, winning does not occur as the result of crushing one or more nation states and declaring victory. The best we can hope to achieve is an extended stalemate that restricts the ability of terrorists to carry out significant operations while at the same time changing the perspective of a whole generation of people who have been programmed since birth with the attitudes that perpetuate the problem.

Frankly, I believe our press is one of our biggest liabilities. While I strongly support a free press, the post Vietnam era sentiments that often put the traditionally liberal attitudes of the press at odds with the military results in a very efficient propaganda tool that often works against our national interests.

During WWII you couldn't go to a movie theater without seeing a small propaganda film glorifying our boys fighting for truth, justice, and the American way nor could you pick up a paper without reading an article about some heroic war effort deeds. Now you can't turn on the news or pick up a paper without seeing multiple pieces about how our President is a moron and our military efforts unjust.

I wonder how public perception would be different if for the past eight years instead of regularly seeing images of our commander in chief chosen specifically to make him look like a monkey, our population and the world at large would have seen images of the President looking stately coupled with articles that actually explain what is at stake in the war on terror and how it is important to remain vigilant.

Answer 3

Greetings. We Don't Win? win what? we are not fighting a nation, we are fighting women and children, we are illegally occupying a nation that we destroyed the infrastructure of in our illegal invasion in the first place. What is to win? more money for the rich oil barons like our presidents backers? we have not won a war on our own since the revolution and that was pretty largely because France aided us and recognized us when no other nation in the world would. Is no speaking of winning here. only a question of others dying so one can feel good about themselves without their having to risk their own lifes doing so. Is easy to throw away someone elses life. not so easy when it is your own being tossed away for stupid pride of a people who have none to speak of anyway. We have concentration camps. we now legally practice torture on prisoners. don't mention honor and America in the same breath, no one else in the world does.

Answer 4

I quite have been to the two places and that i'm able to inform you at the instant from own adventure that Iraq is now a digital hellhole, I have not have been given any theory what we've been attempting to do there yet i'm notably particular it wasn't what we've, the cost of killings and terrorist assaults has remained notably plenty the comparable in view that 2007 the only reason we expect of we've gained is because of the fact we now not deliver our troops out into the extra risky aspects, maximum US infantrymen in Iraq spend their time of their heavily fortified distant base's whilst US troops do venture into the risky aspects they get killed (like final week 4 lifeless) as for the country itself this is definitely in a state of civil conflict, with the U. S. watching from the sidelines. As for Afghanistan, 1000 US troops killed in 9 years, 500 of that have been killed in the final 18 months, that may not prevailing as traditionally you already know once you have gained once you give up dropping men, if we at the instant are dropping extra men at a quicker fee than ever earlier this is secure to declare they're nonetheless very plenty in the combat. me for my area I say get all of the lads and ladies out now earlier we lose anymore, because of the fact each dying is a waste of our superb battling against their very worst.

Answer 5

Assuming that this is actually a war that can be fought to a win-loss outcome (which most people think is unlikely), what specifically are these "grave repercussions" we would feel for "3-5 generations" if we "lose"? And why 3-5 generations, why not forever?

We heard the same thing during Vietnam (that the Communists would take over the world) and that didn't happen.

Answer 6

Andy Rooney (60 Minutes) was a reporter for the Stars and Strips Newspaper during WW2. He landed in Normandy, and heard rumors of what was happening in some "camps". He went to Buchenwald to see for himself what was going on. He stated that when he arrived he was ashamed that he had considered refusing to serve in the Army. He stated "For the first time I knew that any peace is not better then any war"

Answer 7

THEN WHY DID WE LOSE IT?!?!?!?!

We had OBL surrounded at Tora Bora. We had the chance to take his *** down, but didn't. Why not? Why was Iraq, the completely unrelated to 9/11 Iraq, suddenly more important than bin Laden?

HOW DO YOU FIGHT A WAR AGAINST A NOUN?

And, finally, if winning is so vital, so monumentally important to the future of this nation, our children, and society, why is there no sacrifice by anyone other than the military and their families? In other words, if this war is the most important in your lifetime, WHY AREN'T YOU FIGHTING IT?

Is it not worth your life, but worth somebody else's? How cowardly can somebody be if they refuse to fight in the single most important conflict in their life?

Answer 8

The war on terror is much the same as the war on drugs... nobody can win.

The sooner people understand that a "terrorist" is just a word to describe an enemy, the better off we'll all be.

We stand to "win" the war on terror as much as winning a war on B.S. It's not gonna happen!

Answer 9

This message was brought to you by the Chicken Little Society of America. There is no winning this war. We are not fighting to win a war. We are losing soldiers to set up a government of people that hate us. If we were fighting to win a war, I would be all for it.

Answer 10

Even Fearless Leader says this war will go on a long long time, which is his way of saying that he thinks it will never end, which in my world means we can never win.

How can you make war on an emotion (terror)? How can you make war on a tactic (terrorism)?

Less emotion, more brains will keep us safer in the long run.

Answer 11

i sound more and more like my mother every day: maybe we should have thought of that in the first place, huh? it's called looking at a situation, evaluating your REAL REASONS for doing something, weighing the benefits with the negative consequences, and making an informed decision.

if we had gone through these simple steps our parents should have taught us the first time we did something we shouldn't have done, we would have looked at the situation after 9/11, saw that al qaida wasn't in iraq, in fact found that there would really be NO reason to invade iraq (save the wealth of oil to be controlled there), and realized that invading would mean loss of american lives in a country that didn't want us there in the first place with the possibility of actually STRENGTHENING terrorist cells and introducing them to iraq. and we would have said, huh. bad idea. i know you want the oil, bush. but bad idea.