How is the War On Terror HELPING the U.S. economy?

Question

How is the War On Terror HELPING the U.S. economy?

Answer 1

war is not supposed to help your economy

Answer 2

less over two years of Clinton's peak surpluses

Answer 3

Clearly, the War on Terror is not helping the US economy.  There are other reasons besides economics for going to war.  In fact, war is generally bad for the economies of all concerned, at least while the war lasts.  It is hardship and death and illness.

This is why I can't understand saying the war is for oil.  It can't be.  It's much cheaper and easier to get oil when there is no war.  Even if we wanted Iraq's oil, it would have been cheaper to buy it from Saddam's government.  And if we did it for oil, why haven't we got any?

Answer 4

1) It keeps things from blowing up.  

Not kidding.  The World Trade Center suffered a significant drop (on pun intended) in value on 9-11. The buisnesses there (again sorry not intending a pun) took a major hit as well.  It is pretty hard to continue being a major bond trading firm when 2/3 of your staff are dead.  

Thanks to agressive action on the part of the President, and agressive action on the part of our Allies, and a bit of luck as well, we have not had a repeat of 9-11...at least not yet...but just imagine if some of those plots HAD worked....like the one to drop the airliners over the Atlantic using liquid explosive, or the shoe bomber, or the guys who wanted to truck bomb the cable connections on the Brooklyn Bridge to make it fall.  What sort of economic damage would THAT have caused?  What would have happened if they had managed to set off a "dirty bomb" on Wall Street?

That economic  is one of the prime motives of terror attacks.  Not only do they disrupt the economy, they also cause vast amounts of money to be used in non-economic ways...Israel has to spend huge amounts of money on guards, security alarms, etc...and that is just the private buisness.  (Example, in 2001 my son was in a Jewish Pre-school...after 9-11 they hired an armed security guard to be there all day... .wasn't cheap. That money could have gone for books, or another teacher, or all sorts of things..)

The Palestinians know this, and it is one of their prime motivating factors...they want to try and break Israel over time by ruining her economy with all the extra expense involved in keeping Israeli civilians safe from terror attacks.

By getting agressive with the terrorists the War on Terror has kept the bad guys over in Iraq and Afganistan.  By killing Al Queda in Iraq, rather than in Minneapolis or Detroit, the U.S. economy has not be

Answer 5

It's not it is just putting the US into trillions of dollars of debt it can't afford.  Why do you think the US economy is in such a bad state?  The trillions spent on the war could have been spent on programs to boost the economy and improve the living standards of millions of Americans.  Other essential programs have to be cut to fund the war. Now some people will argue that is a price worth paying. Others say the war as it has been waged is misguided.

Obviously the actions of terrorists can not be ignored but what is the best way to deal with them? It is not easy to decide.

Answer 6

helping...it's killing our economy. clinton had a balanced budget when he left office. now' we've got a trillion dollar debt. how many 0s is that?

Answer 7

Well it is giving many US oil giants an excuse to increase their petrol prices and make more money. George.W.Bush is cashing in with this war.

Answer 8

It's not. Since 9/11, Bush's Homeland Security invention did a very impressive job of securing the U.S. from virtually any form of terrorist attack.  And the U.S. is pretty safe from any form of VIOLENT terrorist attack.......

......but we were left wide open for an ECONOMIC TERRORIST ATTACK, which is being done courtesy of one or two Al-Qaida sympatheic OPEC "emirate kingdom" countries that are part of the 13 nation cartel.

Bush and Homeland Security never saw THAT angle coming????  To any event, we have NO protective measures to counter this form of terrorist attack.  So we have long LOST the war on terrorism.

So the U.S. sits as an open duck economic terrorist target.  The country is still seriously burned by the "weak U.S. dollar" rumors ( probably started by Al-Qaida sympathists on Wall Street ) and the subsequent "mortgage meltdown", increasing each day the number of foreclosed homes ( a U.S. family tossed out onto the streets to join the homeless ranks ) against the shrinking number of affordable homes for middle class America.

Oh....and looming over the horizon:  An epic UNEMPLOYMENT crunch should we right now pull our troops out of Iraq---and lay off all those workers covering jobs held by U.S. troops serving in Iraq.

Economic stimulus package 2008:  A failed joke should it be a only one time event.

What good is a sound, safe America---when it's own people can barely afford to live on it's own soil????

Answer 9

It helps because it keeps the gun and missle manufactureer operating 24/7. AND a handfull of people to get richer, while everybody else suffer.

Answer 10

Takes men out of the economy to free up jobs for others. Involves the purchase of huge amounts of materials of all kinds from food to toilet brushes. That involves transportation. The extra money pumped into the economy causes extra sales in other unrelated business.

World War 2 ended the depression.