How Would You Solve the War on Terror

if you were the president of the united states?

or at the least, improve the situation in the middle east?

what do you mean by the war on terror?

EDIT: one of the best things, imho, that could be done in the middle east would be America ending its support for regiemes like the Saudis and the Egyptians. This support does a lot to polorize more moderate members of the populace, and really tarnishes the image America needs if it wants to be a major player in the regions diplomacy.

yeah, when i wrote that i wasnt sure that was the best way to put it.

by "war on terror" im referring to the US's attempts to combat terrorism, I.E., going after terrorist organizations.

do you mean Muslim terrorism or terrorism in general

I only ask, because the most typical profile for a "terrorist" in America is a white, male, Christian. People don't often talk about invading the cities where abortion doctors are killed though.

muslim terrorism 😄

when i get home later ill think of a better way to phrase tmy question.

****, again, I'm just going to seem like a crazy pedant, but are you interested in what America could do to reduce how often they are targeted? or like, eliminate terrorism in general?

I could see the first being possible, and America has had, and in some ways continues to have, a very strong relationship with moderate elements in the Muslim world. The problem is, military security of resources has prompted a lot of policy decisions that have been good for America's economic and short term security interests, but generally bad for the human rights situation in the middle east. I honestly think one of the best things they could do would be to allow some of the political reform that is begging to happen occur. It might see some nations become less friendly to exploitation by American corporate interests, but maybe that is the cost of not having the citizens of that nation feel like they want to attack America.

The second option I think is entirely out of America's hands. Sure, they could take a harsher stance against Israel, but ultimatley, Hamas isn't going to negotiate peace terms with America.

However, I sort of question this whole interpretation. A lot of the international terrorism, rather than nationalist acts seen in Palestine, is motivated by young Muslim men feeling that there is little for them in the world, feeling alientated in foreign countries, and an overall crisis of masculanity vs modernity that is playing out differently in different parts of the world. It might not even be that they need better role models, and there is nothing America could do about it, but if these young men felt some sort of universal belonging that, imho, is what draws them to these extremeist organizations in the first place, maybe they wouldn't feel that violence is a form of self affirmation.

Originally posted by Ms.Marvel
if you were the president of the united states?

or at the least, improve the situation in the middle east?

Originally posted by chomperx9
id say everyone stay on their damn side of the border and there would be no wars.

yes, especially given the international nature of Al Qaeda

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Originally posted by inimalist
yes, especially given the international nature of Al Qaeda

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Originally posted by inimalist
do you mean Muslim terrorism or terrorism in general

I only ask, because the most typical profile for a "terrorist" in America is a white, male, Christian. People don't often talk about invading the cities where abortion doctors are killed though.

wow...

Originally posted by inimalist
wow...

Originally posted by chomperx9
i quit playing WOW

I don't know about now, but I had a pretty solid (IMO) idea for the US dominating political events after 9/11 happened. Mmkay, after 9/11 we had the entire world's sympathy, right? So, we invade Afghanistan (the only thing we managed to do right.) Kick their asses nice and thoroughly.

Now then, Saddam's felt our military might before firsthand. And he's pissed at us, true. But he'd also be nervous as hell, seeing as we're right there next to him. Thus, we talk...he's entered into alliances with us before, we've even given him missiles and money. We do again and induce him to attack Iran. Iraq and Iran hate each other anyway, it wouldn't take much provocation.

Now, either Iraq wins, or Iran wins, or they both destroy each other. It doesn't matter, really, because whichever side is left will be so weak that we sweep in from Afghanistan and finish them off.

At the same time, we have North Korea to deal with, and that small-dicked Jong Il bastard. China was downright pissed off to find out that they had nuclear missiles. Japan is our ally. So is South Korea. We cut a deal with China and Japan to organize a Chinese-led invasion of NK then and rid ourselves of them. To convince China, we'd offer economic incentives and a few of our divisions. No big deal. Again, China wants to stop North Korea, and we'd have good rapport at this point with the world.

Now, we've got Egypt and Syria to deal with - but that's incredibly easy to solve. Iraq and Iran are either gone or in our hands. As is Afghanistan. Pakistan and India are our allies. The UAE is, too. They have absolutely zero immediate allies save for Saudi Arabia, who are too frightened to come to anyone's aid. Completely isolated, they could be forced into giving us oil, disarming, or doing whatever else we want. And if all else fails - we give Israel the Green Light to invade. They've wanted to for ages and our policies have kept them back.

Our only "non" friendly threats at this point would be China and Russia. China doesn't want us to fall. They make up 26% of our investments. They need us like we need them. Besides that, we'd have just made an alliance with them. We use our now immensely more powerful influence (through the masterful game of playing nation against nation) to keep Russia weak and under our influence, and thus all of our major threats are dealt with and under control, without us coming off as looking "bad" in the least.

It would've been awesome, if Bush had half of a brain and knew the meaning of subtlety.

Nuke afghanistan, pakistan and anyone else, then nuke'em again and again until their is nothing left

Originally posted by chomperx9
he asked i answered. everyone stays where they are citizens there would be no problems.

the longest you can visit another country is for one week. at imigration you get an electric wrist band that has a timer. if your not back in your country before the timer goes off you get a big electic shock that puts you in a coma but doesnt kill you. then from there they find your body and see your imigration showing where your from and send your body back to where you came from.

if you try to remove the wristband imigration is notified by satelite and you have to pay a huge fine and they send you back and you are no longer allowed to visit another country again for breaking the rules.

That would only work if all terrorists came from outside a country and if terrorism always took more than one week to pull off and if terrorists were highly respectful of the laws nations they intended to attack.

Call Batman.

Originally posted by Ms.Marvel
if you were the president of the united states?

or at the least, improve the situation in the middle east?

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speed racer looks a little cross eyed in your avatar

Originally posted by Ms.Marvel
speed racer looks a little cross eyed in your avatar

aw.