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Originally Posted by The Strangler
The fact is this has to be done. Flat out. The future of the world depends on it. In the next 10-15 years Western Europe will be over 50% muslim/islamic and if democracy is not imbued into their culture it will begin tearing apart ours. Its already started in Canada.
You may say that this is a pointless war with nothing but tragic, uneeded dead... I say this war could very well prevent a cultural world war in the next 50 years.
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You make a good point but what I mainly question is the method by which we are going about it. Bush's policies have probably made us less safe from the terrorists we are trying to defeat. I'm not exactly sure what it means to "defeat" terrorism but that's another story. The attack on Iraq has not made us more safe but instead has propagated even more hate for the US. Al Qaeda should have no trouble recruiting new members and obtaining cash as the muslims are constantly fed such images as prisoner abuse and mangled civilians.
We of course had no choice but to go after the terrorists after 9/11 but the war on Iraq is a total distraction from this. Bush said that we would make no distinction between the terrorists and the countries that harbour them. Well that's all good and well but the 9/11 commission showed there were no direct links between Saddam and Al Qaeda. Even if you believe they did have some communications that's a far cry from claiming they "harbour" terrorists.
In my opinion we went after Saddam WAY too early and in doing so have over-extended ourselves and become less effective on both fronts. We should have hit the terrorists hard in Afghanistan instead of diverting resources to Iraq on questionable intelligence. Now we find ourselves in a huge mess. We don't have enough troops to properly secure both Iraq and Afghanistan and we are unable to keep the people safe, something they are undoubtedly aware of.
Though what's done is done and arguing about what should have happened won't change that. We have no choice but to finish what Bush started. I just don't trust that he's the one to do it.