Originally posted by Starman
Okay, maybe I should clarified by saying:
"Yes, what did G.W. Bush do to Canada except for making Canada and the rest of the countries of the Western World EVEN MORE THE objects of hate and targets for terrorism?"
In the manner that Bush has choosed to do his war on terrorism has given a tremendous recruitment drive to the terrorist organizations. Now they can tell people, "Look, we were right, they attacked and waged warfare on us, just as we said they would do. We warned you that USA and the rest of the Western World were evil, what more reasons do you need to join our cause?" It doesn't take more than a basic knowledge in psychology to understand this, if you just stop and think, instead of acting on irrational anger and violent tendencies like Bush and his men did.
Originally posted by Starman
Terrorists have secret members, secret meetings in secret locations. You don't defeat them by waging wars against countries. You have to infiltrate and destroy from within. Bombing countries doesn't solve the problem. You have to use Intelligence. You have to do things in secret too.
I guess I have to further elaborate these examples, then maybe my point comes through even clearer.
Now, Georges and you other Bush supporters, imagine that a French terrorist organization attacks USA.
USA wants to attack France. As pretense the American president gives the words resolve, weapons of mass destruction (which in France's case actually is true), fighting terrorism and so on.
USA does not get UN mandate, because most educated people knows that it's idiotic trying to fight terrorism by bombing countries to smitherines.
The president of USA does decide to attack anyway.
They bomb France, destroying the Eiffel Tower and the Triumphal Arch are smashed to ruins and rubble. Likewise with many civilian homes.
Many of your friends and family, Georges, are killed in the assault.
As terrorists operate in secret, with secret members, secret meetings at secret locations, there's no way to determine if any terrorists, if any at all, got killed.
What's for certain though is that many innocents have died, including many of your family members and friends.
Now, Georges, would you commemorate, compliment, and congratulate, the American president for his [sarcasm]excellent[/sarcasm] method for fighting terrorism, or would you be angry and hateful, and maybe even join the French terrorist organization yourself?