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[miketheidiot]

Originally posted by: oculus
I already posted an answer to this question, so I'll just lift it for this thread.
I editted it slightly for clarity.

My proposal for winning the war on terror:

1. End the War on (some) Drugs. I pity the fool who doesn't realize the true effect this would have on our planet.

2. Commit to staying absolutely dedicated to the rights and freedoms of citizens no matter how many times we are attacked.

3. Provide increases in funding for education, here and abroad, investment in further solidifying the internet as a free network that no one country can lock down, and continuely increase the number and size of "transfer student" type programs. (basically, efforts to break down cultural boundries and build respect for each other)

4. Find, and fairly try, all perpertrators of terrorism. Never sentence them to death (that's what they want), but sentence them to life in prison without a chance for getting out.

5. Put more pressure on the Muslim community to condemn terrorism and to educate its populus why terrorism is wrong.

 

[miketheidiot]

Originally posted by: Kalbi

Originally posted by: Tab

Originally posted by: Deudalus

Was Europe even remotely as bitchy about the original Iraq-Kuwait issuse? NO.

I don't follow you, sorry.

Did Europe disagree with our involvement in the Iraq-Kuwait conflict? No, they didn't.

europe didn't do squat in the first gulf war. in fact it was bc of the UN we couldn't topple saddam then.

you seem to have lost your clue.

 

[miketheidiot]

Originally posted by: Genx87
1. Continue the course in Iraq\Afghanistan
2. Put pressure on terrorist sponsering states like SA to cut it out. If they dont find a way to put pressure on them without direct war
3. Coddle the Euros. They dont want to lift a finger or pull their head out of the sand. But we need them in this war.
4. Get an Israeli\Palastinian solution. Once this is ironed out one of the pillars of these nutjobs justification is destroyed.
5. Ween ourselves off ME oil. Drill away in the artic or rockies. If we can become self sustaining then it destroys another justification for the nutjobs. It also puts pressure on states like SA to deal with the situation.
6. Educate people with western values. If the majority of people in the ME can come out of the oppression they live in then maybe they will not have the fuel needed to blow themselves up for some power hungry idiots.

Other options

1. Build a huge wall around the ME and not allow anybody out and nobody can go in. Let them have the land and they can eat themselves alive
2. Turn the place into a sheet of glass and sell the silicon to Intel.

#4 is good
#6, western "values" are one of the main prblems here. It was western "values" that caused the problem to begin with.

 

[BBond]

Originally posted by: Deudalus

You can't solve this problem with force.

Which is why I support the war in Iraq.

We could very feasibly, and for much less cost monetarily and especially with American lives, simply reduce any middle eastern country we feel is guilty to rubble.

Instead we got rid of Saddam and are trying to win over the hearts and minds which is no simple task.

I don't think you understand what real force is if we truly just wanted payback rather than solving the problem.

What did Iraq have to do with the "war on terror"? Or should I ask, what did Iraq have to do with "the global struggle against violent extremism"?

In other words, wasn't the USA just as guilty for attacking Iraq as al Qaeda was for attacking America? Hmm?