How many of you believe that the US's motivation in the "war on terror" is a religious one. And why?

Question

In other words, is the US involved in a religious war?

Answer 1

I think it was primarily to give Halliburton extra business. Cheney was, after all, the head of it. It was a major contributor to the Bush campaign, still pays Cheney millions and has since received billions of dollars in commissions without bidding for them. Religion? Useful in getting Americans fired up, but not the main reason for the war.

Answer 2

Well, in my opinion - you are asking two questions here; I will attempt to answer both.

1. "How many of you believe that the US's motivation in the "war on terror" is a religious one. And why?"
- I do not believe that America has a religious motivation that prompted or is sustaining its "war on terror". The religious piece is more of an afterthought to strengthen public opinion.

2. "Is the US involved in a religious war?"
- To this question I would answer yes. Be it by intention or not the war has become religious in nature and the cultural and religious aspects are undeniable.

Both are good questions and the differences are important to note.

Answer 3

To believe it is religiously motivated is foolishness. The u.s. government is very secular. However it also has a history of being power hungry and the "war on terror" may be more of a grand posturing or display kinda like a little kid saying "look what I can do!!!". I assure you if the us population believed it was a religious war the military recruitment would be beyond abysmal. The recruitment isn't pretty now but it would be worse in a religious war.

Answer 4

There's a lot of complex and well argued theories that Bush's insterest in the Middle East is very much religiously based. However, when one talks of a "religious war" they usually mean one religion specifically fighting another religion. I don't think Bush has any specific interest in killing Muslims. Its the geography that interests him because of its religious connections, not the people. And regardless of religious motivations, there are also plenty of good non-religious reasons to be fighting terror.

Answer 5

America's action is a war for economic and political stability in the Middle East. And self protection against terrorists acts like September 11, 2001. It is a continuation of the war began by the innocent people on Flight 93 who took out terrorists on American soil. This has never been a religious war.

Answer 6

No, it is not religious, but it is against extremists. The whole Iraq thing was about vengeance Bush wanted against Saddam Hussein, not religion or terrorism. Afghanistan is where we belonged, ferreting out the terrorists and, yes, tracking them right through Pakistian if necessary. But the evangelicals do not have the will or the influence to drag us into a religious war - though I am sure some of them would advocate it (Disgusting).

Answer 7

Actually the reason we got involved in Iraq’s business was because there was a guy that was fleeing from Iraq he was told by some of his friends that if he says something about Iraq they will get him out of there faster. Going on this the man said there are weapons of mass destruction here I know where they are and what they look like. This got the attention of our goverment.After this he was brought in questioned by the CIA and then is word was taken to heart. The Germans didn’t think he was creditable soruce.But they did not listen to the Germans. This guy was interrogated many times by the CIA and put into protective custody by our goverment.Genareal Colin Powell took this and ran with it force that we have proof that they have WMD and they know what they look like.Remeber the trailers and such they showed on CNN.
Well being the secretary of defense he ran with it because the CIA and the commander and chief said do so. So Powell went with it because he is military and wanted to do the right thing. Well after we invaded Iraq the stories started changing from this guy after a while there where not adding up. Well when Colon Powell found this out he resigned. Now this guy lied so he could get out of the country to get into the US. This was dubbed operation curve ball. As of today this guy lives in protective custody some where in a European town under another name. So no religious from our end. Donald Rumsfeild said that we are not getting any where with the Afghan war lets move it to Iraq so we did. Why because big bombs on plans cost to much and they where not getting any where. When you pass a billion dollar bill for more war funding and you don’t want to give a time table to when you want to get out like the congress wanted him to do. Then veto an S chip bill for the funding of kids with out health insurance there is something up money wise some where. We screwed up trying to whip out people that have had war since biblical times. Now he is trying to fix his mistake of jumping the gun not listening to other people like he should have. Chaney and Rumsfeild being some of them that pushed the issue to go to war. As far as Bin Laden we trained him and his crew to fight off the Soviets in the past. They got pissed when we just left them. And slowly as well keep on making these people mad at us well the rest I really wish I didn’t have to say is history.
Plus China is funding our war over there as well. So we are in the red from China as well barrowing money to finace the war.

Answer 8

No, this is an economic war. The company "Halabertin" and a couple others are making bank on the war actually. Guess who the CEO of Halibertin is: Dick Cheney. (Hmm... think about that one for a moment).

Seriously, as soon as Iraq has "stabilized" we will probably move on to Iran next so we get our greedy paws on more oil.

The same is true of most wars actually. Religion is always used to garner the support of the masses as a form of justification, but the underlying reason is usually something else entirely; most often economics.

Answer 9

First notice... the JEWISH are god's chosen human beings. Israel (reported IsRAel) replaced into given to them by ability of God yet taken faraway from them long after the bible replaced into written 2d Israel (reported IsrEel) replaced into given to the Jewish by ability of the UN and Allied powers after WWII. 0.33 there are Arabs/Muslims that stay in Israel besides as Jews that stay in Arab lands. i think of for the Hezbollah, Hamas, The Talaban (sp?), and the PLO that's a spiritual conflict. For Israel that's a secure practices of sovereinty (sp?) and political conflict. If it have been a real "religious conflict" then Israel would have kicked out each and all of the muslims residing of their u . s .. besides the undeniable fact that, considering Israel hasnt carried out that, I dont think of you are able to call it a real "religious conflict". Quote the bible all you like, to lable a conflict religious or no longer, faith ought to be the main motivator in combating by ability of the two components, besides the undeniable fact that that's no longer the case.

Answer 10

Well, our motivations are varied. One had to do with simple retaliation for 9/11. Another was, in my opinion, Bush trying to settle a personal grudge with Saddam Hussein. Another is to assure security for Americans...no matter how many people we have to kill. But, I feel that this was just an excuse to get our foot in the door, and to have more control in the Middle East regions, and in Muslim countries. I am not sure whether this influence is going to expand to more military ventures, whether it is an economic interest in oil, or an attempt to assure that we can quash any Muslim terrorists in the future (thus making religion an underlying factor, but not an overt one).