Tuesday, May 31, 2011

How should the U.S. presecute its war against global terrorism over the next several years?Should the U.S. become more aggressive in taking...

Well, we are at war in two separate nations, we have
200,000 troops in harm's way with another 250,000 "private contractors" there.  We have
created a whole new division of government as a result of 9/11, we have predator drone
strikes along the Pakistani-Afghan frontier against Al-Qaeda and Taliban leadership,
we've given $6 billion in military aid to Pakistan so they will conduct offensives in
Waziristan against Islamic radicals, we have a proxy war through Ethiopia in Somalia to
prevent the country from being taken over by Al-Qaeda.  We've just enlisted Yemen to
tame radical tribes in their country.  We have 100,000 people on a no-fly list, and
Guantanamo Bay prison camp is still open.


So I guess my
question is, what would more aggressive look
like?


Terrorism and radical Islam are ideas, not nations. 
It seems to me the only thing left that we can do that would be both more aggressive and
more effective is to try and build schools, hospitals and roads and create jobs in the
poorest regions of the Middle East, where terrorism and radicalism are born.  Crushing
poverty and radical madrassa schools are the incubators of the terrorism we're at war
with.

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