Originally Posted by shakran

Aha! You've stumbled on the central problem to Bush's insane "war on terror!" Now, don't get me wrong - I don't for a minute think Bush & Co. doesn't realize this is a problem. They're just hoping YOU don't realize it's a problem.

See, Bush has figured out what the Nazis knew. Give the people a nebulous, unseen enemy who can't ever be completely defeated and they'll follow you down any dark path you care to lead them. It worked fabulously with the Nazis - - hey the Jews are evil, they're our enemy, you won't be safe unless Hitler the Great is here to protect you from them.

And Bush has an even better "in" than Hitler did - his enemy really DID hurt us. Only trouble with this war on terror is that even though the terrorists are real, we can't ever find them all. It's like trying to kill all the mosquitos. It's just not gonna happen.

Now, even though I think Bush is pretty stupid, I don't think he's too stupid to actually believe he can find and eliminate every terrorist on the planet. He's just hoping YOU'RE too stupid to realize it. It was mainly through scaring the living hell out of the public that these bad terrorists are coming to get us that Bush was able to win re-election. The truth is, MOST terrorists in the world didn't give a crap about hurting us until we started invading their homelands or the lands of their neighbors. Moving into Iraq did nothing but piss off the entire middle east (not to mention the rest of the world). How that's making us safer from the terrorists is a great question - and the answer is simply that it's not.

So, since we cant' possibly find them all, and since pissing them off usually results in them attacking citizens, perhaps it's not a real good idea to keep up this Rambo posturing.

Seems to me that if we stopped doing the things that piss the terrorsts off (things like interfering in another country's affairs even though it's none of our business), then they'd leave us alone.

That's not excusing their attacks - it's just being realistic. If I play soccer with a hornet's nest and get stung, I'm not gonna go trying to exterminate every hornet. It can't be done, even though I'm bigger and stronger. What I AM gonna do is learn from my past mistakes and stop dicking around with hornets nests. The hornets will still be out there but since I don't piss them off, they'll save their energies for attacking things that do.