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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla
what the American population really wants is to win the War on Terror
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I've just decided that I don't like the
name of the War on Terror. It's too open ended. The terrorists are people who don't like our government and lack the political power to fight us in any other way. In order to win the War on Terror, we would have to make everybody like us. We would have to enrich everyone to the extent that they have something to lose by opposing us. To ensure that we have allies, we would have to always take the higher moral ground. We would have to outlaw visceral horror films. I don't think we can do that.
We can't win these wars because they're ill-defined. Couldn't we just call it "Operation Destroy Al-Qaeda", then destroy Al-Qaeda, and be done with it?
And UG, they are two entirely separate wars. We went to war with Afghanistan to destroy the state regime which harbored Al-Qaeda. We went to war with Iraq because they had WMDs, or to spread democracy in the Middle East, or something or another. It's always been a little hazy why exactly we went to war with Iraq.