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The War Against Terrorism - Post Afghanistan |
| Date: |
21/02/02 (39 review reads) |
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Advantages: Could create more peace in the world
Disadvantages: Could create more problems in the world
From the speeches being made by George Bush it already sounds like he has chosen his next targets for the 'war on terrorism'.
Sadly Bush still hasn't learned that the United States cannot become the central peace-keeper of the world.
They may have the military muscle to crush a nation in a fast manner but memories run deep and other nations will slowly start co-operating if they feel that they are going to be the next targets of the United States.
Clinton found to his cost that the United States could no longer be 'the peacekeeper of the world' after the disaster in Somalia. What pray tell would happen in the US army landed ground troops in Iraq only to find themselves then fighting on two fronts against a Iranian army.
As Bush found out in the Afghan campaign, Saudi Arabia would be unhappy to help a great deal by providing air bases. Therefore any chance of massive air support would be hampered.
A massive army is good for fighting short campaigns but if Bush is being sincere in wanting to stamp out world terrorism then he must by now know that the fight is not just about destroying 'terrorists' outside the United States but also about rectifying the problems which the United States may have created in the past.
Either way the war in Afghanistan has hardly been a success for the US. Osama Bin Laden is still alive (at least as far as we know)..but I would be very surprised if he is in North Korea!
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- 13/05/02 by On a Roll on 13.03.2002 at 19:27
You wrote that it was 'America that bailed us out' in the Second World War...I find that extremely offensive mainly because of the people who fought in the British Army and died fighting the Wehrmacht and also we must remember that we owe a greater debt to those soldiers who fought under the Hammer and Sickle then we do those who fought under the Stars and Stripes. Even people like Eisenhower acknowledged at the end of the war that everyone owed a debt of gratitude to the USSR.
markw-d you ask me what my conclusion is...well I don't want to sound like a cop out but I never intended on writing one...I won't even bother to pretend that I am meant to be totally all knowing...I just wrote what I felt at the time...Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote "Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they". |
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- 20/03/02 Well said On A Roll.
I'm getting really fed up of all this continual comment about "Bush" rather than about the issues.
He is only the President for gods sake. Ok that makes him very powerfull but does anyone really think that he is acting in isolation from the will of the U.S people or the guidance of his advisors?
Admit it....you just don't like the man because he is American, right wing, gets his words muddled up occasionally, and he is richer than you....oh yes and its also fashionable to dislike him..whatever he does or says.
Clinton was much better wasn't he. He accepted blow jobs for desk jobs, lied to congress, lied to his people, cheated on his wife, bombed Afghanistan without evidence (1995), granted political favours for money, sent US troops into action overseas despite the fact that he was too much of a coward to join up himself when called up as a youth.....but he is good looking, smooth, and a Democrat!
To read some of these ops you would think that either Bush had flown those planes into the buildings himself, or that his response should have been to award Al Queada medals for good flying.
How easy it is for us to sit in our safe little environment and take the moral high ground. |
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- 28/02/02 Interesting start. What is your conclusion?
I see that Firelife is still ranting.... |
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