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Originally Posted by kellychaos
If the present administration had a reasonably competent state department, they would make peace with the rest of the world, cut their losses and walk away saying that they did the best the could do under the circumstances rather play this out as a continuing "war on terrorism"
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You can't
really believe it would be that simple, do you? What would "making peace with the rest of the world" entail? And would that end terrorism? Unlikely.
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... a war that will never be won under the current tact of a continuing occupational presence which builds resentment.
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The war against terror, or whatever it's called now, isn't simply a war against terrorism ,which is merely a tactic. It's a tactic that is being commonly used by radical muslims, namely Al Qaeda. It is
not an exclusively muslim problem, but it certainly is one that's permeating throughout the religion and culture.
"Making peace", withdrawing from the world, and feeling satisfied that we gave it the ol' college try, isn't gonna cut it. Al Qaeda declared war a long time ago, we just didn't really pay attention until 9/11.
It also isn't fair to say that our entire strategy consists of occupying Iraq. You're right, you can't win a war against a method of destruction. But you
can go after the nation-states who would support these groups, and make sure that terrorists who want to harm innocent people don't have readily available resources.
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How would you feel if a foreign sovereignty were occupying our soil
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Probably a little better than living under a twisted dictatorship.
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... especially one that is barely over 200 years old?
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I'm sorry, but this is totally irrelevant.