Posted on 05/15/2011 9:38:50 AM PDT by pinochet
While I agree with your first two points... exactly who is “They”? That is the whole problem that I have with this War on Terror. The enemy was never defined, therefore we don’t really know who we are fighting much less the criteria for winning.
Next.
There! My debt problems are over!
Ok, actually, we should just end the war on terrorism and declare the authentic war against militant islam, wherever it exists.
We won in Vietnam too...before we lost it.
If you dont know who your enemy is by now I cant help you....
Excuse me I wasn’t clear that I was referring to the general public, not myself. I would have been delighted with a declaration of war on Afghanistan immediately after 9/11. The Taliban regime was clearly an enemy for harboring Al Qaeda.
And WW2 was just an excuse to make people turn off all their lights every night.
And how is that working out over this past 10 years?
Every few years, America also helps the Philippines "defeat" the Moros, too...but they still need to be "defeated" or "destroyed again, a few years later.
I like George Bush, but I think he made one big mistake when he defined the War On Terror. It should have been The War On Islam. They are at war with us and were then.
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