Tuesday, April 17, 2012

The Errors in any War on TError

For the few wondering, I purposely made the E in terror in caps to emphasize my point. Any 'War on Terror' is doomed to fail before it ever begins. Despite what anyone in the government would like to say, our 'War on Terror' is one that we could never win. The Error lies within the reason we (The United States) have people who want to see us bleed. It has very little to do with religion, weapons, oil, wealth, or power. It is simply a people who are mad at us for interfering with what they rightfully believe to be their business, and their problems.

It is impossible for us to keep up with the amount of terrorists being produced due to the fact that with every foreign death comes the birth of countless more willing to fight us. Any good speaker can start a mob by pointing a finger at the oppressive forces in their country. Truthfully, if they want us to leave, as it has been expressed, our timetable for pulling out of the middle east means nothing. It was our interference in the first place that led to so many deaths here in the states. It is our interference today that keeps us scared of boarding an airline and requires us to walk through an x-ray machine prior to ever getting close to said airplane.

Consider if you will the opposite was occurring in the United States today. Our military is in shambles, and half of them are corrupt, as are what little police we have. A few of us are happy to see aid coming to our shattered country when someone steps up and declares that the bombings will continue to get more intense until the foreigners have left our country. At first we would try to wait it out, but as our relatives begin to die, we too would push for that aid to leave. When it does not leave like it says it will, we too would become terrorists in order to force them to leave. Yes we would be killing our own, but anyone who embraces the enemy is not a friend. More people would turn daily and the violence would get more, and more intense. We would take the war to their shores in an effort to show them that our resolve will not break.

What started as something small has now grown to something unstoppable. The longer we are in the country that does not want us, the more the people who wanted us will turn against us, and the greater the risk that we will suffer the retaliation of an organized mob of people that look exactly like those you would help.

Our war on terror must come to an end for terror itself to come to an end. To those who would attack us, we are the terrorists. There will not be peace anywhere as long as a military presence remains in a country where the majority of it's residence see us as the enemy.

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