How long til the "war" is over?
I thought of this once I heard the reports (probably BS) that Osama is dead. When will the USA stop its campaign against the Al Quaeda organization? I know that we will never take ALL of our troops and operatives out of other countries; that's a little too much to hope for in the modern political climate. So my question really is, what event will cause George W. to come out and say "We have won."?
Will it require the body of bin Laden?
Will it require the body of bin Laden?
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I think we'll finish clearing out Afganistan and maybe one more country ourselves, but after that chances are we'll just lend financial and training assistance to the rest of the world to keep the terrorist organizations on the run.
One good thing that will come from this war is the (limited) respect from the Arab peoples. They admire and respect strength, so we'll have a couple of years w/o serious terrorist actions against us (just like after Persian Gulf war).
<strong>I find is strange how we can declare a "war on terrorism" and then just focus on a single terrorist orginizaion. Perhaps it should be "war on those bastards who attacked us" and not "war on terrorism".</strong><hr></blockquote>
That's what I always wondered. We're targeting one group but that doesn't mean other terrorists won't attack us. I'm sure there are plenty of other anti-American terrorists out there.
Then give it to Afghanistan or something. Unless it has some oil underneath it, in which case the US oil companies would latch on and sell it as 75% of OPEC-supplied prices. Everyone trying to sell OPEC-supplied oil would lose some custromers.
I wonder how well that will pan-out in the long term. Judging by the folks we've supplied arms and training to in the past, we'll be fighting today's good guys by the time we're finished with today's bad guys.
I can do ya one better...
How about "The Neverending War"...
"turning anti-terrorism into a giant american racket..."
Billions and Billions of dollars going here, going there...
Undermining Constitutional Rights, Creating even Bigger Goverment and "I think" of what little bit we are aware of, we dont know the half of it... Conspiracy or Working the System? Capitalism or terrorism/anti-terrorism?... this whole situation has had a distinct "Smell" ever since the beginning?...
<a href="http://www.guerrillanews.com/war_on_terrorism/" target="_blank">War_on_Terrorism?!? - Link</a>
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