The leader of an al Qaeda cell in Yemen is DEAD. Should we send our troops home?
@UnitedWorkers (219)
United States
January 14, 2010 7:13am CST
People here in the u.s. screaming good mission accomplished Bring are troops home! Troops saying this is our job and it is what we signed up to do,Let us finish our job. What do you think? I think people in the u.s. want are troops home due to our economy getting worse and all they can see is all the money we are spending on this war. It is true the united states has been broken down due to this war and it is getting worse as people losing jobs and being forced to welfare and food Bank Lines and all we can see is our troops rebuilding other country's. When here is were we need to be re-building. Our twin towers in new york was blown up several years ago now. We are the u.s. you would think that is were we would of started rebuilding first to show other country's that we can not be taken down. You may agree or dis agree with me. What do you think? send our troops home? or keep them over there to finish a never ending war?
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@vandana7 (99069)
• India
14 Jan 10
I have always maintained that war never solves anything. It creates metastases like cells. We never know in which part of the world another cell is being formed. So are we going to cleanse each country, and even the US? That is not feasible. We need to increase negotiation skills, we need to have people negotiating things - may be live! We need to know what are the demands of each of such terrorist groups, and present the right data. May be atrocities/injustices were committed. We need to apologize for them, and help them move on. As things stand, we are just fighting and fighting, for years together, with no relief in sight. :(
@UnitedWorkers (219)
• United States
14 Jan 10
I see no end either as on cell is taken down another cell forms. What do you mean listen to there demands? The u.s. does not negotiate. Anther country strikes at us we seek out the responsible and destroy them at all costs. It is what are military is trained to do. They are called seek and destroy missions. We will never bow to terrorist groups demands. Help them? I think we do try to help the people, but why is it our job to do that? When our own need help here. We are sick of being at war. We should of never declared it in the first place. Bush just needed a reason to go over seas and steal the oil or blow up his competition so he could make his own wallet fat. We all know the bushes are oil men. Now we have a new president that the U.S is seeing no change what so ever in except to make difficult times worse by making people lose there jobs because employers can not afford to pay for health insurance that he is making all employers pay for there employees health insurance. Sorry, kinda moved away from the subject. But I think it is to late to change the way things are handled. I just want to know should we stay? or should we go? Our troops say we will stay fight and die for what is right. But back here we saying that we want troops home so we can start helping our own.
@vandana7 (99069)
• India
14 Jan 10
I think the need for war or terrorism starts with some misunderstanding deliberately cultivated or some injustice. Therefore, I am not looking at negotiation of present situation. I am looking at very fundamental demands. What is it that the terrorist are looking for? For example in our country, terrorists want a separate kashmir. So we need to ask them why they are not happy with us, where did we fail, and so on. In case of Al Queda, there must be something because of which people started such terrorism. We need to look at those reasons. I am not talking about giving them monies, or surrendering people who've been caught. And I want such things broadcast, so that average person starts realizing which side is right, and which side is wrong, and therefore realizes that terrorism is no way out of such impasse. May be it is a dream, but I think if one panel of negotiator fails, may be another one should be tried, and a third one, but a dialogue is a must till the issues are resolved. Negotiations with the help of third parties are likely to be considerably better than negotiations by the parties involved. At least, I think so.
