2007-12-14 21:49:53 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
How does that "victory" exactly look like?
2007-12-14 21:55:21 · update #1
Not yet.
It is a bad definition, since terror is a feeling, a state of mind. The word should be terrorism.
Since my country is only pretending to fight what singer Steve Earle calls "in the sands of Khandahar, chasing ghosts in the dark", we're never going to win.
Only massive changes in American foreign policy will end the Wahhabists and other jihadists. When people feel threatened, they react. Our support for Israel contributes to this anger.
Right now, we are using the approach advocated by former Trotskyite and professor Leo Strauss. Trotsky called it Perpetual Revolution and Strauss's words for imperialism is Perpetual Democracy. It is naive to think a form of government can be imposed on people against their will. Iraq will be a dictatorship, sooner or later. Or it will be five or six dictatorships. Barzani of Kurdistan is one established dictator as a result of this war.
Withdrawl from the middle east, ending of aid to Israel and bribes to Egypt and Jordan, removing our troops from South Korea, we have so much to do to repair 60 years of damage. I want to see the day we construct embassies in Tehran and in Pyongang.
2007-12-14 21:53:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 8⤋
There is no victory to speak of! The war on terror, the war on drugs are all lies I believe and its like we are fighting a shadow here :(
2007-12-15 07:26:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have no clue what such a victory would look like. Its like the War on Drugs and just as much a scam. Terrorism has been with us longer than I can remember. Its really a police matter.
2007-12-15 00:11:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Sure it can end. I don't know that there is a real "victory" per se due to the fact that this "war" isn't conventional.
What a lot of the angry Bush bashers forget is that the US did not start this war. We were attacked on 9/11 AND the terrorists had been striking us overseas long before then. Bush decided to strike back.
It is tough to fight an ideology. The extremists don't want a detente, they want submission to Islam as they know it or death to the infidels. It is hard to convince someone who thinks that way that tolerance is the more peaceful approach. They don't want peace.
2007-12-14 23:11:32 · answer #4 · answered by MrOrph 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Yes, There will be an end. When bombings and the killing of innocent people stop, and we stop fighting over land. It will also look like the war on Terror will end when you start to see Europeans and Americans tour the Mideast countries by the millions and sink billions of dollars into those economies. This will be good for everyone. I know Dubia is becoming a tourist spot. I would love to go to Dubia someday, but many people are still not 100% sure that there will not be a terrorist attack on a hotel that tourist stay at.
2007-12-14 22:05:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
The "war on terror" is primarily a political phrase game played by leaders who don't have the integrity, judgment or vision to keep control in any other way. The "war" (actually the "fear") will largely end when Bush is replaced with a responsible, thoughtful leader who governs with confidence in himself and his country.
2007-12-15 04:32:47 · answer #6 · answered by golfer7 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No. Like the war on crime, WoT has no end. Now just like the WoC, we can never give up on it either. Just because murders happen every year doesn't mean we should fire all the cops out there because it never ends.
Now what would victory look like? No terror actions would be one victory. Maintaining the status quo would be another.
2007-12-14 22:13:41 · answer #7 · answered by emp 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
An end to the war on terror looks like an end terror. To get that, middle eastern countries would have to become more like post WW2 Germany and Japan.
The terrorists don't know it yet but the best way to get back at us Americans is to go suburban and build cars and electronics cheaper and better than American union workers
do. We would crumble like stale bread.
2007-12-14 22:39:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
I see no end in sight ... this is the war that can not be lost but can not be won ... then again my glass is half empty and i could die tomorrow ..
2007-12-14 22:00:06 · answer #9 · answered by J D 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If cheyneybush and the repKons would stop terrorizing Muslims in the middle east for no good reason it would be a start.
2007-12-14 22:22:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋