"War on terror"
 

Do you think that by changing the "war on terror" metaphor to something a bit more precise like something along the lines of disease / outbreak containment the mindset of the public would change?

There is no way to "win" in this war against extremism, there can't be a finish line. However, local law enforcement & government working together should have a more precise & realistic focus of containing and preventing this mind state from spreading.

Then working from the outside IN to assist diseased territories (if they can be saved).

Right now political correctness is getting in the way. The other day I saw a video where in NY a group of people using their right to "free speech" were stepping on the flag & completely vocalizing their hatred of America while IN America! How is this allowed? Why? You can't say you're going to shoot the president but you can spew that shit & be protected? It should be considered treason right off the bat & dealt with.

Throwing that group in jail immediately would offend how many people? Not me.


Anyway, do you think that if something as simple as the current metaphor of the "war on terror" being changed that the public would have different expectations of the current situation?

Here is a good article on what I'm talking about: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=...-war-on-terror

What do you think?

I think there is a finish line. I think support for terrorism is diminishing.

Without getting into a discussion about who's right and who's wrong, at the end of the day a lot of innocent people are getting killed. The other day five Iraqi kids got blown up by a suicide bomber. What purpose did this serve? None, zero, zilch. One bomber killed, two Iraqi cops killed, and five innocent kids. When your killing more innocent kids than you are your enemy, well, your doing more to your own cause than good.

We'll always have terrorists of one kind or another; That's just because some people are crazy.

war on terror is fake

USA/UK are the terrorists

how about those kids in Pakistan killed by US drones ... or in Syria this week ...

That is all OK DOOKIE ?????

Yea, they need to change the name but they wont. They wont because it sounds scary and that is how they control the people.

"The War on Terror" sounds as dumb as "They Hate Us For Our Freedoms."

That is what I mean, the "war" justifies that in the eyes of most. If the "west" focused on containment & used all of this money to fund local law enforcement things could have been dealt with differently & more precisely and the backlash wouldn't be coming to the west / US.

Money talks & so much has been wasted.

Without question the USA is the biggest terrorist organization in the world. They kill more innocent people than ANY terrorist group EVER has. The facts are there for you to read, the numbers don't lie.

The "terrorists" kill in the name of their religion, we kill in the name of stopping terrorism. What's the difference?

"war on terror" having about the same success rate as the "war on drugs"

Dont worry McCain or Obama will kill more of your freedoms to help the war on terror. You know the way Osama said Americans would react. Allowing our liberties to take from us while bankrupting us by chasing ghosts.

yeah and we really know who was behind importing drugs in the 80's


bloody CIA

War on terror facts:
Have put people in jail without a trial
Innocent people have been tortured and killed
Patriot act and other have given the military unprecedented power
War on terror have cost more than 1 trillion dollars
Supposedly stopped terror attacks, but in most cases the suspected terroist have been freed.
The war on terror have created more potential terrorist than it have stopped

As George Carlin used to say, the US likes to declare war on abstract things that can obviously never be won, just to say they're at war with it. Not to do anything about it. Just to say they're at war with it.

3:50 in
https://youtube.com/watch?v=p5XU3bFlKCI