Will it ever end?

marc_in_darwin

No it will never end, because it was never started in the first place. The war on terror is a misconception. There is not even a clearly accepted understanding of what a terrorist is? Who is a terrorist? Zarkawi, Osama, the IRA, Bush, the suicide bomber, the US Air Force pilot who drops a bomb and kills countless civilains or the US Marine who killed a four year old kid in Haditha. Was Hitler a terrorist? Just who exactly is a terrorist? Terror is a technique being employed by those who see it fit to use that technique for whatever reasons they have. The media and those prosecuting this "war" have added a face to this technique to sell it on that basis so as to create support for this vague concept from an unquestioning audience.THey did this in the same way that they tried to sell us the "war on drugs" in the 1990's which was infact just a police operation against the Cali Cartel in Columbia. So when they killed the head of the Cali Cartel, Escobar they said the war was won. Today drugs are still a problem and no amount of wars fought against this concept is going to stop people from taking cocaine or heroine or speed. In the same way terror will still be a problem because it is a technique rather than a tangible object which can be fought, kicked and shot to death. No doubt we'll hear many more futile and meaningless "mission accomplished" statements.

neks4u

if we say there ll be an end to it then will be lying to ourselves there will always be wars and rumours of wars because we are in the lastdays and it has been prophecied that nations will rise against nations... etc and several others all these prophecies must be fufilled there can neva be world peace for as long as people are on planet earth because we all ve a lot of differences and beliefs.
lets only pray that in the midst of it all we will find individual peace and hope for tomrrow till jesus comes
there ll be more insurgencies earthquake killings and death records in these time and day

Green2006

No, as long as there is greed in this world, there won't be any end.

fartman

no why?

weasered

war on terror is the perfect war. the cold war didnt actually involve war unless russia/china & usa backed those fighting (iran & iraq in the 70s & 80s, african tribes at war, bosnian war, ect). this war theres no state or individual that can be called the enemy. for instane, we arent at war with any of the countries or factions the hijackers were from. a terrorist can be from any color, culture, religion, place,... as long as there is someone willing to retaliate for what theyve suffered there will always be 'terrorism'. the usa has been caught many times setting off bombs that they blamed on someone else. perpetual. ubiquitous & entire...its the perfect war.

geoweeg

I think you are illustrating the inherent laziness of most Americans. The point you are making is "this looks like it is going to take alot of time, and probably be hard also, we shouldn't even try then".

I think we are in a position where we don't really have a choice. This was a fight that was brought to us, not one that we sought out. Starting with Jimmy Carter, you could even say that the US has gone to extraordinary lengths to avoid this fight (since we started getting attacked by the terrorists in 1979).

Alot of people (yourself included) think that we should just hunker down within our borders and just leave everyone alone. The only problem: for this to work we would have to close our borders to all people, and imports, and exports.

That doesn't sound like it would help our economy much.

There will be an end to this fight. The question we need to ask, is do we want to be governed by our constitution at the end of the day, or Sharia Law?

namsaev

Will there ever be a time when Terrorists don't exist? Sure --ever is a long time. But I don't think it will happen in my lifetime. The invasions you refer to are not for the same reasons as was done in the past. There's no desire in the part of the coalition to conquer and control these countries.

You imply we need to concentrate on defence. If you look at history you will see defence doesn't work. Pick any defensive idea and you see it only works short term and not against any concreted threat. The reason it doesn't work is defenceive measures hove to work 100% of the time year after year after year, but an attack only has to succeed one time on a date of the attackers choosing. That's what happened with 9/11.

Situations like Afghanistan under the Taliban or Iraq under Saddam should never happen. But that is a failure of the UN. The nations of the world UNITED should be setting the standards of what rogue governments cannot do. And backing terrorist is the one thing that should be curshed whether it's a country, company, or private individual. And it should be done by the UN. It shouldn't be primarily the job of the US.

xenobyte72

There will continue to be wars as long as people have an ego and a need to be more powerful than their peers. It's a fact of life.

tegidfoel

Then I will "generally " answer. There may in the distant future be a truce of sorts...But short of one idea eliminating another the disagreement will never...END!

ultraman

no it will never end as long as stupid leaders exist in this world

jungle bunny

i dont think there is an end in sight. what governments have failed to realise time and time again despite so many demonstrations of it, is that VIOLENCE CAUSES MORE VIOLENCE! even if they managed to kill all the terror cells which exist now, the u.s and u.k are breeding a whole new generation of terrorists in afghanistan and iraq who will be bitter and angry at having being bombed, seeing their families killed by our weapons and soldiers. (and rightly so)
the war against terror will never ever ever succeed because all it does is heighten the problem, and the governments know that. i really dont know what they hell their aim is cos it sure as hell isnt to keep their own countries safe.

yes

lucky_j_2003

nope it is not and innocent question,all your questions show a defiant agenda.As long as you have people wanting to make this world into their own kingdom, there will be war, most are over religion.

Ghali 86 x-4

no, if Bush still become USA's president, the war will not finish

Milky

IT WILL ALL END WHEN THE BUSH FIRM ALL COMM1T SU1C1DE

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