When will the phrase "the war on terror" finally be put to rest. Anyone with an ounce of a brain will realize there is no such animal.
No matter how sophisticated or well armed a military is, they are no match for a rag tag collection of believers, with stone-age armaments. A look at history, including the United States, reveals that some of the greatest armies were either defeated or held to a stalemate by these dedicated forces.
If this war continues, the nation will go bankrupt, and the terrorist will not only have defeated an army, but a whole nation will crumble.
Isn't a soldier's life just as great a loss as one in the twin towers? Oh I forgot; they volunteered. I think it was to fight, not to die. So people are still dying at the hands of terrorists, but it doesn't count, since it is over there.
Has anyone considered that more lives are lost in this country each year to homicides, then to any terrorist actions? More teens die in stupid speed related accidents. On a daily basis lives are lost on cities' streets to hit & run drivers; yet no war is declared to fight this senseless loss of life.
But the worst loss of all, are the real freedoms we are so willing to give up for this false perception of safety.
So lets take all of these billions of dollars that some over grown children are using to play war games, and put them to good use in rebuilding this country. Who knows, there might even be some left over to help other nations that aren't as blessed as ours.
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I think you spelled terror wrong. They now pronounce it "terrr".
Nice point you made here.
Maybe because I spell it wrong, I have a different perspective of it.
Now even the democrats are starting to talk like republicans in how they would pursue these boogeymen, including invading other countries.
Will this madness ever stop?
Good idea. I've often thought that if we'd simply done nothing after 9/11, there was enough sympathy from the rest of the world that many other countries would have stood up to protect us against another attack...but then again, many other countries DID warn us of the impending attacks and we purposefully ignored the warnings. Anyway, what you say makes a lot of sense on many levels. The US War on Terror has caused the deaths of many more people than the terrorists, and by its very definition, it's unwinnable.
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