War on Terrorism Turns Terrible

When George Bush addressed the nation on Sept 20th 2001 he said, ""Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated...."

Starting off the war with an IMPOSSIBLE goal is probably the main reason why this war has not accomplished any of the goals it began with. Stopping every single terrorist act or thought in the world? That is a war against a large group of many different people with different radical beliefs. You can not declare war against an undetermined group of people scattered sporadically all throughout the world and different countries. George Bush and the government had to mask the underlying reasons for the war with a general concept that the American people could rise up against: terrorism. There is no way the government could have gone wrong there because all Americans are against terrorism. But this does not mean that all Americans were willing to take the steps that we have.

The first article I read was from Right Wing News. It is the republican belief that this is an essential war to help bring Democracy to the Middle East. They say that what we are doing in Iraq is as important as the work the "Greatest Generation" did in Japan and Germany and World War 2.
Americans are naturally greedy. A huge problem with the war is that there is not support from Amercians because it does not help out our interests. These radical republicans say that they praise the Bush administration's decision to take down Saddam and help the Iraqi people build a free country. They also say that it is without a question in America's interests. What I want to know is WHY it would be in our interest to blindly send our troops to fight and die for a cause that is not even our own?

http://www.rightwingnews.com/john/whyiraq.php

The second article I read discusses one reason why we would want to be in Iraq: oil. However, America does NOT need political control of a country to buy oil! It is only sending us so deep into debt that we have slipped into a recession. We have wasted billions of money for this pointless war, that if we had used it for energy research we would not need all the oil that is extremely overpriced today. Secure oil means protecting Saudi Arabia. And after we already killed Sadaam there was no more reason for us to be in Saudi Arabia, but we still stayed.

There are so many countries that buy oil for lower prices that do not have any involvement with the Middle East, so why should we?

It is true that Americans have a sense of pride to help out the entire world, but if we are in so much trouble with our own economy, our first goal should be to take care of our own citizens and problems. No one that I know well has gone to fight the war in Iraq, except for distant relatives. But that does not mean the war has not affected me. It affects me every day cause it makes me ANGRY, and I have ran a few anti-war benefit concerts in New Jersey. Also, our entire economy is falling as a whole. And that obviously effects cost of everything as inflation increases and house prices goes down.