Is the US reducing terror or increasing it through aggressive military action (including torture of prisoners)

What I Say

(OMG! Luekas above has never heard of Guantanamo?)

--and BTW--You have just as much "right" to ask and re-ask and re-word what you already asked on this message board, and the people who complain just have their conscience irked by your question.

Many Americans are looking for a cause-and-effect relationship between the war in Iraq and there having been no successful terrorist attacks on American soil since Operation Shock and Awe commenced. The truth is that you cannot establish a cause-and-effect relationship because there are a multiplicity of other factors involved--and one of them is simply that terrorists such as AlQaida typically plan their attacks for years. They have attacked other countries (as in the Mumbai train attacks) around the world. To believe that the war in Iraq is CAUSING there to be no terror attacks on U.S. soil is particularly naive, but it helps some Americans clear their conscience as well as provide an excuse for why it's okay to have civilians in Iraq sacrificed as some bogus "necessary evil."

What is probably reducing terrorist attacks is better intelligence and more focus on domestic security weaknesses.

You don't stop terrorism by invading countries, bombing them with depleted uranium and then torturing and raping it's citizens. You destabilize the region, cause the people to fight amongst themselves and kill each other, as well as the occupying troops. But that kind of environment is conducive to war profiteering. It also leads to more terrorism abroad and at home, requiring governments to take away liberties of it's citizens and slowly form into a police state under the pretense of security.

Luekas

We are torturing prisoners? Since when?

You call that CHANGE?

Dont repeat Propaganda!

Bobby D

Well, I'm pretty confident we're safer now than we were pre-9/11. I have no problems with how we're conducting business. I just hope our boys and girls won't be there much longer. Let them be out of there before things get bad.

cashcobra_99

No major terrorist attacks in a while. None on the US that I can think of since 9-11.

Victor Bout

Certainly has reduced the number of domestic attacks in the US since 9-11...

What prisoners were tortured, or do you mean the soldiers and Americans that have been captured and butchered overseas?

MikeGolf

Can you name some verified instances where the US condoned the torture of prisoners?

Or are you slandering people?

Alby

What do you think. The "peace" or cease fire as I would like to call it that aggressive military action creates is only temporal, as Gandhi once stated. Permanent peace can never be achiveved via violence as violence only solves solutions when other parties, ideas, nations, etc are utterly obliterated. Logically, the US in the eyes of many foreign countries are distubers of the peace. In fact, the USA has always been in a state of formal or informal war, it as born in the blood of rebellion and it spills the blood of rebellion.

Mokes 310

killing is killing, plain and simple. keep killing, keep having the same stupid debates!

bigdan6974

The Afghans I see every day are pretty happy with the fact that they aren't tortured by the Taliban anymore. bet you a dollar for a doughnut the Iraqis feel the same way

prettyinpunkk

You fell for it too. The terrorists want us to think that we are torturing those prisoners so the prison gets shut down. That is exactly their plan and you are going along with it and spreading the word. I"m not saying that nothing wrong there has ever happened. I'm sure things have happened there that shouldn't have... along with tons of other prisons in our country.

We cannot sit down with these terrorists and solve these problems by talking. It simply doesn't work when dealing with sick irrational hateful people. Aggression was necessary to solve World War II and I think it is unfortunately necessary in this case too.

Mobius

Are terrorists reducing the chance of U.S. military action by chopping-off heads of innocent civilians and filming it on T.V.?What exactly is your idea of torture?

Thom Thumb

You're damned if you do, and damned if you don't with the terror war. aren't you?
Same as Israel - damned if they do fight the Arabs who want to eradicate them, damned if they don't.
You can please some of the people. Some of the time. But you can't please all of the people all of the time.

OnE

Honestly...there's alot of things people don't know about our government and mind you there just rumors but it's very believe able. Did you know Busch is friends with the Bin Ladens that they own about 5% of america...again just rumors. Check out some of these sites if Yahoo allows them.

samdadnow

Hard to compare.

idearibbon.com

ragsdalemb

Yes we are reducing terror, unfortunately with war we gotta take the bad with the good... "no pain no gain"

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