I DISAGREE (Sorry Cerek
- I used your line )
Fighting terrorism is the way we all want to go Promethius, but there are many ways to do it, and some are fundamenatally smarter than others. For one thing, alienating allies and playing the "biggest kid in the class" card does as much to grow the supporter bases for terrorism as fast as we try and knock them down.
Do I advocate doing nothing - hell no. Do I believe in appeasement - hell no. Do I think the big stick approach is winning - hell no. There is a lot that is being done well, and that is the inroads that co-operation of intel organistaions across the world are making in eating into the terror networks.
People in the Bush administration want to maintain a high level of disinformation that the war on Iraq was part of the war on terror. What positive effects do you think came from it on the terror aspect? If it really was planned that way then it was one of the silliest things we have ever done. The invasion of Iraq and the mistreatment of detainees has generated a larger support base for terrorism across the muslim nations. The war on Iraq had other agenda's, and while the admin several times tried to link the two, each time they shied away through lack of evidence. The attempts though, still fostered the popular belief that is widely held to this day.