beekman001
Not a Cabbage
I have serious issues with both "The War on Drugs" and "The War on Terror". Not nessicarily the actual programs (well, yes but that's another thing) but the terms themselves. Firstly, we are at war with or wage war with a country, or orginization. Past the fact that the wrong preposition is being used, both 'Drugs' and 'Terror' are non-physical things.
We definitly have an international struggle with both issues. However, neither of these things can be readily attacked. You fundamentally cannot bomb 'Terror' into the stone age. Terrorism is an idea and as such must be fought with an idea.
In theory this makes the military action in Iraq a good idea. The theory is that we go in, throw out an agressive dictator & get Iraq on the road to democracy. In turn this puts a democratic role-model in the middle east, people in other countries revold against their opressive regimes & everyone has a big democratic love fest.
In practice the execution stinks. We did not have the backing of the internation community even though we could probably have gotten it by waiting a few weeks. If you want a democratic love fest, everyone has to be in on it. While we had a plan to win militarily, we didnt have a plan for what to do afterwards.
We definitly have an international struggle with both issues. However, neither of these things can be readily attacked. You fundamentally cannot bomb 'Terror' into the stone age. Terrorism is an idea and as such must be fought with an idea.
In theory this makes the military action in Iraq a good idea. The theory is that we go in, throw out an agressive dictator & get Iraq on the road to democracy. In turn this puts a democratic role-model in the middle east, people in other countries revold against their opressive regimes & everyone has a big democratic love fest.
In practice the execution stinks. We did not have the backing of the internation community even though we could probably have gotten it by waiting a few weeks. If you want a democratic love fest, everyone has to be in on it. While we had a plan to win militarily, we didnt have a plan for what to do afterwards.