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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
of course its not a "war" where victory can ever be declared. todays world is a world where terrorists have no where to hide, no where to hide their money, no reliable way to move money, few reliable ways to finance and fund their actions, no where to openly train in camps etc etc etc.
saying progress hasn't been made against terrorism when you compare the before and after... is pretty silly.
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progress in the way of stopping planes from crashing into american skyscrapers sure, but terrorism comes in all shapes & forms and terror can be spread through many venues. if you define terrorists solely as disgruntled middle-easterners crashing carbombs and hijacked airplanes into shit, maybe there ha sbeen slight progression made, but even on that level there is hardly a nick in the rope. there has been NO progress in stopping true terrorism in my opinion. this again raises the question... who are the terrorists now? do you not think thousands and thousands of innocent iraqi civilians see the american military occupation of their land and cities as terrorism? it's just too broad a term, and that is what makes it an impossible "war" to be won.
all we do is wipe one form of terrorism to make pathway for another. hell, the american people are terrorized on a daily basis by their own media/government. is there really any threat of terror in the united states on a day to day basis beyond the terror instilled it's people on a day to day basis through the 6'o clock news?
terrorism can hide in any small corner of society, in any nation, with lots of money, or no money at all, work at walmart, learn to build a bomb out of household items surfing the internet. hell, if it were my agenda, I could easily blow up a bomb in a government building without anyone having ever seen it coming. your neighbours grandma could be a "terrorist" for all anyone knows.
the only way to win the war on terrorism, is to remove the word terror from the english language. this is the only way we will ever make "terror" non-existant...