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Originally Posted by Keng Even though war on terrorism isn't the best value for the money, we have to do it. Just look what happened in Russia, that was truly sad... |
But is the war in Iraq really fighting terrorism? It seems to be encouraging terrorist hostage taking incidents, and whats sad is a lot of countries are negotiating with the terrorists for a safe release which encourages others who want things... to commit terrorist acts. (The thing that really peeves me about the war is that it was started on a false premise. I know.... evidence showed they had big bad weapons... but... how could we have been wrong about that? I agree we got to finish it for the Iraqi People, we deserted them in 1991 and a bunch of them got slaughtered by Saddam for revenge on his return.)
That's exactly what I'm asking though... put a value on the war on terrorism, how much IS it worth to you? We don't "have to do it," and even we do... to what extent... how much money should we put forth to do it? How much money is everyone's life worth? Although a difficult decision to make, it has to be made by someone.
Russia is a sad story... what's even sader is the history of Russia and the way everyone in that region has been ruled by oppression and power for 1000's of years. And it hasen't changed. The chechya rebels have mostly legit demands, they want to be treated more equally. They're doing it the wrong way, but the government has failed to respond to them any other way; so when things get desperate... work harder?
In the past they've captured a movie theater and a hotel. The movie theater ended in 100 people dieing after the government pumped it full of military "knock out gas." That made everyone unconscious. The other time with the hotel was even more sad because the terrorists got back to their home country and have not ever been caught, or anything... although I don't know all the details and its too late to search the internet. To every story there is many many details... remember osama used to be good allies with the US back when we were trying to remove communism from Afganistan only 30-40 years ago. Amazing how things change?
Iono... just trying to get people to start asking questions! No one cares enough to find out... or even question why, who, or what anymore.
As far as Bush's affecting the job market... I have no idea how or why he could have done anything. Check out:
http://zfacts.com/p/529.html
It clearly shows a stagnant growth, but it does dip down after sept. of 2001, so maybe it wasen't in his control at all. Perhaps american economy has been too blessed recently? Democrats are always say Bush has lowered jobs, but they haven't explained their scientific reasoning as to why its him and not something else. Anyone know why?