ahh..the good ole days..

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

You are kidding right? You are comparing gang wars in LA and Iraq and Afganistan?

we need to assist other countries with law enforcement? What exactly are we doing?

Where do you get your info? The world economy is negatively effecting terror? So the heroin that they export isnt selling so well?

Wow.

no, i'm not equating gang wars with iraq and afganistan. i am however equating fighting a group of terrorists with a gang. fighting a war versus a country, where you can have embargos, take regions, essentially cut off vital supplies is how you win a war. but fighting individuals in various countries isn't fought the same way as a war. there are groups of these terrorists in virtually every country-are we going to invade, bomb, send marines and the navy to pakistan, syria, iran? here? we have people here who would wish to do us harm. fighting the taliban isn't the same as fighting japan in ww 2. you can't fight it the same way. just think, we have by far the biggest and best armed military in the world, but we're trying to fight a conventional war vs a very unconventional opponent. it's not even guerilla war...i would love to be wrong, but i just don't think we're fighting this 'war' quite the right way. just read that obama is sending another 17k troops to afganistan, which is necessary. we're losing there right now. but there is a difference between our invasions of afganistan/iraq and the rest of the 'war' on terror.
as for the world economy affecting terror, they were discussing the other day on the radio that money being funneled to terrorists groups has dropped dramatically. terrorists without funds can't buy their weapons or make bombs. they didn't say anything about heroin....