Majority Say U.S. Winning War on Terror

Terrorism is not a military problem. It is a law enforcement problem. It is no different than the old gang wars of prohabition days. Therefore it is not a war and can never be a war unless the terrorists take over a country and attack as a country. That is why the war in Afghanistan is wrong. Afghanistan as a country never attacked the United States. The had no personnel in the 9/11 incident. They were Saudis. The shotgun invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq were wrong from the beginning and remain wrong to this day. Winning the "war" on terrorism? How? In what way? If there is any lessessing of terrorist incidents it is because Law Enforcement uncovered the plots and stopped them, not because of any military action.

Col..... i feel you are so wrong but that is your right.....

Terrorism is a police problem? That's a bit at odds with our history Colonel. You use prohibition gangs as an analogy but that was created by government and most did not use force more than necessary (POing the cops by killing people often meant crackdowns). So of course it was a police problem. But overseas problems like this have always been the Armed Forces bailiwick.

Terrorism involves often widespread networks, all backed by some nation and usually with safe havens in that or another nation to train/equip in. Police forces don't (nor should they be) doing work overseas nor are they budgeted/equipped for that kind of mission. Police forces solve crimes and to some extent keep the peace. Outside US territory, the Armed Forces have the responsibility to deal with problems.

What was wrong about the war in Afghanistan was the fact that Bush/Congress never declared war for an obvious reason. Afghanistan harbored the people who acknowledged they were part of the attack on 9/11. As Afghanistan told us to pound sand, we were both traditionally and legally within rights to take military action. While your case is easily made for Iraq, even most Libertarians agree Afghanistan would have been a clear case of a legitimate war if it had been done according to our Constitution.

I doubt the "majority" of people think we are winning this war. Rasmussen must be polling four people these days, all of them with the last names Bush or Cheney.

If a 300 pound man beats up an infant, he isn't a winner.

lol what war on terror? You mean the war mongers of American? The war profiteers must have shown a profit.

I've never liked applying that word "winning" to that either, as in defeating another countries army etc.. I do think we have done some serious damage to past terrorist leaderships, and groups; and continue to do so with our allies.
I also highly disagree it is just a criminal or police issue either. Part of the reason I wish they would straighten out and clarify all this Geneva stuff... get all countries on the same page with these guys. The UN can't agree on what a basic terrorist/combatant is though...

This majority probably can't even find the locations where the "war on terror" is being fought on the map...

It is impossible to win a war against an ideology. Terrorists can be kill and prevented from attacking but there will ALWAYS be more where they came from. And by going in and causing all this "collateral damage" we are just creating more. The solution will not come from the barrel of a gun or the warhead of a missile. It must come through goodwill. Atrocity begets atrocity forever without end. That is why there will never be peace between Israel and Palestine. That is why there will never be and end to the "war on terror"

This is a war, a full-fledged war, make no mistake.

Fought against the whole idea of the West using unfamiliar and very modern tactics.

This is a war of prevention to stop the eruption of a low-tech economic super-power funded and driven by Middle Eastern money using the technology and access to the West purchased by oil money and international educational access.

Fought with de-centralized distributed terrorism and guerilla tactics straight out of a biology, mathematics or computer science textbook using colonialism by population to tilt Western demographics internally to the West while externally leveraging the totalitarian nature of Islam and the closed societies of Islam as brainwashing factories and the substantial 46 nation voting block in the U.N. as a smokescreen for international aggression.

The hostility is low-level and well disguised and propagandized, even using the corruption of our own system to prevent the alarm from being sounded. Even a red blooded old coot like Col. G.W. is blind to the threat posed by this unconventional mulitdimensional viral attack on the West.

The outcome on this is doubtful because the nature of this war is so well disguised and it has gone so far for so long at this point that economically we have shifted 8 trillion or more of our money to the enemy over the last 30 years.

Not to mention the US is fighting this war alone while the Russians and Chinese enjoy their oil and industrial income the West has given them.

I agree with Col. George on this one. It is a law enforcement problem. It's just another organized crime problem.

Of course, I have provided the standard solution in Invisible Hand as I do for so many problems. Those who have not read it yet should give it a try. It's lots more optimistic than these gloom and doom posts.

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