GySgt said:
Terrorism against America exists, simply, because we back Israel's right to exist. To them, this is all it is. Toleration of a skyjacking, bombing, kidnapping, or murder every few months for the last four decades has not been the answer. Changing our foriegn policies and kissing their asses is also not the answer. This is a war against religious perversion. It is Islamic perversion that encourages the malicious murdering of innocent women and children to gratify their God. The oil soap box has gotten pretty old. Last I checked, my gas prices aren't any better, so give it a rest. Find something else to mask your cowardice. Giving the 8 million greatful people of Iraq a chance to live democratically and showing the Middle Eastern people that we are not "The Great Satan" as their governments and clerecs has told them, is the answer. If you can't see the real threat that creates organizations like the PLO and Al-Quida or you are unable to see the nobility in freeing oppressed people from a cruel dictator, then I suggest you take a hard look at yourself. After getting past the ignorant and pacifist rhetoric that some of you vomit, you might not like what you see.
It's hypocritical to suggest that the US Administration's goal is too spread democracy, when they are trying to overthrow an elected government in Venezula or trying to stop democracy in Egypt.
I don't mind democracy being spread, I just thing the US is going about it the wrong way. The US is trying to fight terrorism through tremendous show force to destroy the will of the terrorists, however this force tactic is short-lived, expensive and doesn't last for very long.
Example, when Iraq fell, Iran and Syria were basically crapping their pants, people were announcing that democracy domino effect via force will be visting them. However 2 years later they are ****-sure about themselves as the US show of force has faded and the US is still bogged down in Iraq.
It is not a "war on religious perversion", it is basically a war on rogue states. The Bush revolution is actually a counter-revolution, trying to bring warfare back to convential warfare not unconvential. Basically Bush and co believe that is it easier to threaten states that support terror with war than wage war on terrorists. As I said before the effect of threat of force is short lived, and as a result North Korea, soon Iran will have nukes.
Afghanistan had elections yes, but no one has mentioned the corruption, the roaming warlords or the quadrupled poppy production. As an America soldier said "We didn't buy the Northern Alliance, we just rented them."
Let me put it this way, the US has spend more money in trying rebuild Iraq into a democracy in a year than the EU spent spreading stable democracies to the old Soviet bloc in a decade. The difference is, we didn't invade anyone.