How Has The War On Terror Made The West Safer?

Question

Has the security tightening made you feel safer? Or does the tension in the world fill you with dread? Are we being taught to live in fear when there is really very little to fear? There have been only two or three attacks on western soil since 911. If the threat was so serious wouldn't we have found more prospective bombers? Or had more successful bombings?

Answer 1

The war on terror has not made the western world more safer. It has made the western world and it's counterparts more paranoid!

The paranoia is sickeningly deadly. It has frozen a great amount of effort, time, money at the borders and has cost us more than it's worth.

I think we have the States to thank for that. Damned yankees.

Answer 2

We haven't been attacked since 9/11.  What further proof do you want!

Answer 3

Don't think so!  People are constantly being kept on their nerves about likely terror attacks. Airport security lights...red, orange etc.

Terrorist attacks here and there. Soldiers being dumped into war and  killed for the sake of personal interests. Terrorist acts...inhumanity.

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Answer 4

UK here, Blair had a document that said that by 'declaring' war on terror would up the risk on terrorism....

says enough doesn't it?

Answer 5

Don't forget that there have been many arrests of terrorists, terrorist training camps have been bombed and forced out of Afghanistan, and prospective suicide bombers have been directed to Iraq where they were massacred by coalition forces and Shia militias.

It actually probably has made us somewhat safer.

Bush said he wanted to fight them over there rather than over here.  I didn't think it would work, but a lot of al qaeda recruits and anti-american terrorist were drawn there and killed.  You can't argue with success.

Answer 6

staying away from you stella honey , your probly worse then any terror act . love always just a freind

Answer 7

No, it is only encouraging larger attacks in the near future. I just finished reading Bruce Ackerman's (Sterling Professor of Law at Yale) recent book "Before The Next Attack". In it, he makes the case that by having a global "War on Terror", the United States is committing itself to an endless series of conflicts with a growing number of enemies. I believe that a "War on Terror" is almost, or just as dangerous as actual terrorism. Terrorism will always exist, but by declaring a war against "terror", how could we ever expect it to stop?

Many say that things are becoming safer and use as evidence the lack of major terrorist attacks in the past few years. Many major attacks have been thwarted thanks to random intelligence data, such as the foiled 2006 Transatlantic Aircraft Plot. Only out of pure luck was this attack avoided. The United States' list of enemies is growing much faster than anyone could have ever imagined. And, there IS a legitimate threat from terrorists that is increasing. But we are meeting this threat by pouring oil on the fire. Do you really think Islamic terrorists will allow us to carry out military campaigns in their backyard and do nothing about it? In the next few years it is almost certain that the terrorism occurring in Iraq will spread from the Middle East to Europe and to America.

The threat of nuclear terrorism is on the rise. With more and more of Russia's nuclear materials coming up "missing", it is easier than ever to construct a backpack-sized nuclear bomb. Most experts in the field of national security, such as Graham T. Allison of Harvard estimate that there is greater than a 50% chance of a nuclear attack on a major American city within 10 years. The threat of terrorism is increasing, fueled by our militaristic foreign policy and our lasting ideology of democracy.

Answer 8

War on Terror = More motivation for extremists to bring it on.