If not the War on Terror, then what?

The liberal mind set is a do nothing until we are attacked. Then find out who the one person is who was responsible for it and go hunt them and them alone down.

That is like walking by five drug dealers on a block to get the one that sold to your kid. Never mind making the neighborhood safer. Never mind removing or clamping down on know threats that will in time escalate. Once you get outside your house just close your eyes and hope you make it back.... right?

Times have transformed my pal. Im certain if that IRA stuff might be taking place now, plenty extra might have taken position. This is certainly no longer a War on Religion. There are terrorist in the market seeking to kill blameless persons. They are making use of the faith to again there schedule, so that you must ask the query WHY. We are browsing for a terrorist that has threaten our nation with killing of blameless persons. Yes we have now additionally killed blameless persons at the same time browsing for the terrorist and that's on the grounds that the ones Cowards cover among the civilians. If they wish to combat step out within the open and dont use blameless persons as shields. That is your opinion that Americans dont like Muslims, i in my opinion don't have anything in opposition to them. Just on the grounds that there are a couple of unhealthy apples does no longer imply the complete batch is ruined. In case you didnt understand, i've served 21yrs within the Military and feature been worried in each clash and conflict considering the fact that 1991. Here is a bit historical past for you earlier than you begin going off. Who helped Iraq for the duration of the Iran-Iraq War, sure it used to be the well historical US. Who helped the Al Qaeda construct the caves within the mountains of Afghanistan, over again the US. It is unlucky they became in opposition to us once we helped them combat there battles. The hyperlinks beneath gets you educated.

I believe in diplomacy. We should talk and negotiate with all our enemies and "terrorists". We should not stop supporting Israel but we can make them change their behavior and force them to make peace. The war in Iraq cost nearly trillion $ and if we put this money to help nations in middle east and build their economy there will be much less terrorists and enemies. And America would be respected all over the world. With current policy we only created much more enemies than we had before and more attacks 911 style can be expected on our soil.

I think the answer is to stabilize Iraq and then bring the troops home. We can deal with North Korea or Iran if that time comes. Unfortunately, we cannot just keep to ourselves and hope that the rest of the world plays nice.

Call it what it really is: A war against Islamofascism. Then fight it accordingly. You don't win wars by negotiating with your enemies. You don't win wars by pressuring your friends to make concessions to your mutual enemies. You win wars by destroying your enemies & that's what he need to do.

Are these real questions or do you like setting up straw men? If the ONLY options are the ones you are giving, then of course your choice sounds like the right one. Congrats on oversimplifying an extremely difficult problem.

War on Terror-- yes it has been drummed into the minds of every American until they think that this is reality.

Please please please tell me how Iraq was involved in 911.

Did the terrorist learn to fly there? Where they funded by

Saddam? I would bet that you think every Arab or Muslim is a terrorist.

You have been sold a bill of goods and swallowed it hook line and sinker. There were many better ways to fight the true terrorists.

I vehemently disagree that the growing attitude in America is:

"if we just leave them alone they'll leave us alone... maybe they'll even love us!"

What's protecting this country is port security, TSA development, and essentially securing the borders of this country and regulating the flux of products and people over that border...NOT DROPPING BOMBS EVERYWHERE.

THAT is how ''they'll leave us alone"...cuz they'll have no choice.

Close our borders, increase intel, protect our harbors, build multinational alliances to fight terrorism instead of going it alone, in other words....protect ourselves instead of chasing terrorists all over the globe.

Well if it is the war on terrorism, why hasn't the supposed world leader of terrorism, the supposed mastermind behind the attacks of 9/11 Osama Bin Laden, not been apprehended or is not even being pursued? Why is Osama Bin Laden not on the FBI's most wanted list for 9/11 seeing as he is supposedly the world's number one terrorist? Why is the war on terror only confined to 2 countries of the world when terrorists exist all over the world? Why was Saddam Hussein included in the war on terror when he was once a friend of the US as was Osama Bin Laden? Did Saddam Hussein ever use terrorists to attack any countries from the west? If Terrorism is really such a Global threat then why are the US and Britain the only ones that are really interested in fighting it?

You say that in your additional but you forget the fact that if there were no US bases in the middle east then they wouldn't be getting bombed now would they. How about you let the Muslim world try and tell the US how to run their lives and set up military bases in Washington and other cities in the US and see if you like it? Put yourselves in their position for just one minute and then you will understand why it is that they dispise the west. If someone came into my house and just put their feet up on my sofa with their muddy boots on and tried ordering me about and telling me what to do I would hurt them very badly and kick them out.

They have taken on their Jihad as a struggle against their interpretation of tyrrany. If they have no feeling of oppression against them and their way of life they will cease to feel the need to struggle. I say get out of the middle east and leave them to it. It is not helping being over there and bombing the crap out of them and killing many thousands of people. All it is doing is helping recruit more terrorists to their cause as they have a reason to fight. You could stay there for a thousand years and they will continue to fight so what is the point?

Lol all you have done is take yourself away from your first point which was the war on terror. If you ask me the US would be better off keeping their noses out of the other countries problems altogether. The US isn't stopping India and Pakistan having a war but merely prolonging the eventuality of it. The US isn't saving the world, it is only making the majority of it detest the militaristic step father who continues to punish them for disobeying their orders. Only one thing will end of it and that will be the downfall of the US, unless your government starts to change foreign policy. You cannot continue to force nations into doing your will. All people must be given the freedom to learn from their own mistakes. I mean after all that is what you are supposed to be promoting isn't it? If you waited for nations to ask for your help and leave when you are no longer needed, rather than intervening where it is not wanted and setting up bases in countries that don't really want you there, you would find other nations would have a lot better attitude towards you than they have today.

Lol you like to put words in my mouth. Where did I say it would be desirable? Nowhere is the answer. Yes an eventual war with India and Pakistan is inevitable sorry but the two countries despise each other and their dispute over Kashmir does nothing to alleviate the animosity. I never said that it would be a nuclear war but if it was, you would have to ask yourself, how was it that India and Pakistan became nuclear powers in the first place? Wouldn't have happened to have anything to do with the west now would it?

Pakistan Nuclear Weapons

A Brief History of Pakistan's Nuclear Program

Pakistan's nuclear weapons program was established in 1972 by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, who founded the program while he was Minister for Fuel, Power and Natural Resources, and later became President and Prime Minister. Shortly after the loss of East Pakistan in the 1971 war with India, Bhutto initiated the program with a meeting of physicists and engineers at Multan in January 1972.

India's 1974 testing of a nuclear "device" gave Pakistan's nuclear program new momentum. Through the late 1970s, Pakistan's program acquired sensitive uranium enrichment technology and expertise. The 1975 arrival of Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan considerably advanced these efforts. Dr. Khan is a German-trained metallurgist who brought with him knowledge of gas centrifuge technologies that he had acquired through his position at the classified URENCO uranium enrichment plant in the Netherlands. Dr. Khan also reportedly brought with him stolen uranium enrichment technologies from Europe. He was put in charge of building, equipping and operating Pakistan's Kahuta facility, which was established in 1976. Under Khan's direction, Pakistan employed an extensive clandestine network in order to obtain the necessary materials and technology for its developing uranium enrichment capabilities.

In 1985, Pakistan crossed the threshold of weapons-grade uranium production, and by 1986 it is thought to have produced enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon. Pakistan continued advancing its uranium enrichment program, and according to Pakistani sources, the nation acquired the ability to carry out a nuclear explosion in 1987.

In 1955 construction began on India's first reactor, the 1 MW Apsara research reactor, with British assistance. And in September 1955, after more than a year of negotiation, Canada agreed to supply India with a powerful research reactor - the 40 MW Canada-India Reactor (CIR). Under the Eisenhower Administration's "Atoms for Peace" program the US agreed to supply 21 tons of heavy water for this reactor in Februrary 1956, and the reactor was dubbed the Canada-India Reactor, U.S. or CIRUS (now commonly written as Cirus).

I said the west and there you have it. I am bored with you now as you know absolutely nothing and continue to try to put words in my mouth. Good luck in your life you will need it. All the information you require is out there all you have to do is use your brain. You talk about other nation's as if they are children and need the US to hold their hands to cross the road.