The meaning of ‘War on terror’

[3step]

The ‘war on terror’ was a wrong term. Terrorism has no motherland, no military, just followers all around the world. Bush had been speaking about fighting terrorism everyday on TV. It was nothing but fear-mongering. ‘War on terror’ had done possibly greater harm to our national idea than 9/11 attacks did. Do you think the US needed this regime of fear? Do you think it was necessary to declare war against immaterial enemy and tell us about it everyday?

 

[joG]

The ‘war on terror’ was a wrong term. Terrorism has no motherland, no military, just followers all around the world. Bush had been speaking about fighting terrorism everyday on TV. It was nothing but fear-mongering. ‘War on terror’ had done possibly greater harm to our national idea than 9/11 attacks did. Do you think the US needed this regime of fear? Do you think it was necessary to declare war against immaterial enemy and tell us about it everyday?

You are absolutely right that "War on Terror" was as much a misnomer as was "War on Drugs". It was a poor choice of banner.

We should not have "declared war", but chosen to treat it as heinous criminality like we always had. A little more money and coordination would have done that trick.

 

[Thoreau72]

GWOT is a fraud of epic proportions, a hoax upon the American people. The events that brought it were staged, a magnificent false flag operation, and the mainstream media is a critical player in that fraud.

In the name of the GWOT, the Fourth Amendment has been effectively nullified, and so has Habeas Corpus. This has demonstrated that the most dangerous enemies of the US Constitution are domestic enemies, our elected officials.

 

[fmw]

The government works on enhancing its power over the public relentlessly. The war on terror has been a great excuse for it to grab big chunks of power from the states and from the people. The problem, as always, is us because we fall for it. We want desperately for our government to be effective and honest when that is a delusion. Our government is anything but effective and honest.

 

[NonConformer]

Kudos all around.

I truly believe that, on 9/11/2001, many hard-core ultra neo-conservatives went behind closed doors, and with clenched fists yelled "YES!!". Now they finally had a reason to launch the war they'd been itching to do for all those years.

 

[DVSentinel]

The ‘war on terror’ was a wrong term. Terrorism has no motherland, no military, just followers all around the world. Bush had been speaking about fighting terrorism everyday on TV. It was nothing but fear-mongering. ‘War on terror’ had done possibly greater harm to our national idea than 9/11 attacks did. Do you think the US needed this regime of fear? Do you think it was necessary to declare war against immaterial enemy and tell us about it everyday?

A war against terrorist organizations and nations which state sponsor terrorism and are havens for terrorist, hmm, what else would you call it?

True, chasing terrorist, which are criminals not lawful combatants would technically be a policing action, not a war. However, to take out the state sponsorship, that is indeed a war. There are countries, such as Iran, that have sponsored terrorism and sheltered them for a very long time. When the same places continue for decades to show up as sponsors of terrorism, it makes sense to take them out in any operations aimed at reducing terrorism.

Our nation has not suffered harm because of the "War on Terror" but rather has suffered from the mishandling and inconsistency of the operations. Most of our casualties from the "wars" have been because politicians stupidly think that combat troops should be policemen.

 

[kjwins]

Its been said many times terror is a tactic, you can't have a war with a tactic. All we have done is create more terrorist, & spend trillions of dollars. Maybe that was the plan?

After 9/11 most of the world condemned the attacks, including Muslims. All that was needed, was to isolate the terrorist in there country. Maybe a Special Forces operation. Not an all out war that has turned the world against us. Most of the world hates the US.

 

[Ikari]

The ‘war on terror’ was a wrong term. Terrorism has no motherland, no military, just followers all around the world. Bush had been speaking about fighting terrorism everyday on TV. It was nothing but fear-mongering. ‘War on terror’ had done possibly greater harm to our national idea than 9/11 attacks did. Do you think the US needed this regime of fear? Do you think it was necessary to declare war against immaterial enemy and tell us about it everyday?

It's a propaganda term used to excuse forever war.

 

[Geoist]

Kudos all around.

I truly believe that, on 9/11/2001, many hard-core ultra neo-conservatives went behind closed doors, and with clenched fists yelled "YES!!". Now they finally had a reason to launch the war they'd been itching to do for all those years.

Yup, just a little bit of fearmongering over WMD's and the People would be willing to invade just about any country.

 

[Geoist]

All we have done is create more terrorist, & spend trillions of dollars. Maybe that was the plan?

The plan, as always, was profit.