CNN Poll - Do London attacks mean we are losing war on terror?

[HockeyMom]

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/late.edition/index.html



83% Yes
17% No

[Ezlivin]

1. Is progress in the war measured in terms of innocent civilians killed?

If so, then I think we are WAY ahead of the terrorists.

[efhmc]

2. So how does that work with the "fighting them over there so we won't

have to over here" bush theory fo war?

[tuvor]

3. "War on terror" is such a red herring.

As winnable as the war on drugs, and a great excuse for bushco to do what he pleases.

So many seem to have accepted this futile endeavour at face value.

[Lecky]

4. 78% Yes 22% No

It's dropping

[HereSince1628]

5. Gahd! This shit is manna for those seeking a police state

What poll questions are next...

Should ALL London Bobbies be given weapons?

[earthboundmisfit]

6. Noticing how a lot of polls (this one included) are asking INANE questions

The last few weeks especially - posing many times absolutely pointless questions on the polls... Wonder who's getting paid to come up with 'em, anyway? I'd love a crack at that job!

[Immad2]

7. 78% Yes 22% No

Are the London terror attacks an indication that the war on terror is being lost?
Yes


78%

550 votes
No


22%

151 votes
Total: 701 votes

[Spider Jerusalem]

8. How can you win a war on terror?

How can you even HAVE a "war on terror", for that matter? The whole idea is idiotic (and the fact that so many people have bought into it rather indicates that they are, too).

[Jack Rabbit]

9. It lays to waste the regime's rhetoric

Since the London bombings, Bush and his friends seem to have dropped the line that we are fighting terrorists in Iraq so we will not have to fight them at home.

Of course, since the invasion of Iraq and before the bombings in London, there were many other attacks, such as those in Bali, Riyadh, Istanbul and Madrid that could have been used to lay waste to that nonsense.

Saddam's regime had no working relationship with terrorists and no weapons to give them. Therefore, invading Iraq and ousting Saddam could not have possibly had any positive effect in the war on terror. Quite obviously, it did not.

[MercutioATC]

10. 69%/31% now...

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

11. It is not a sign of winning it

Lied into war, CIA compromised.

Yup, that is leadership.:crazy:

[dansolo]

12. Losing?? It's already lost.

[fujiyama]

13. Does having the police

shoot anyone that looks vaguely suspicious on sight mean the terrorists have already won?

[orleans]

14. now it's 70 to 30%

does this mean we're starting to actually win the war on terror since the poll first started?
:sarcasm:

[RebelOne]

15. Yes 70%

[VOX]

16. "War on terror" = like trying to catch smoke, or wrap water in paper.

You can't fight an abstraction, let alone beat it.
:grr:

[mikelewis]

17. When you shoot an unarmed innocent man 5 times in the head....

and not only do you not punish the people who did it, you tell the world it may happen again, I'd say we're winning the War of Terror.

[Warren DeMontague]

18. Yes, and clearly it's because we just haven't invaded the right countries

yet.

[radfringe]

19. the "war" on "terror"

first off this is not a war in the conventional sense of countries lining up troops and shooting the crap out of each other - and the winner being the last person standing. It's not about one country trying to take over another, it's not about grabbing resources or even increasing power

this is about ideas - much harder "war" to fight. The "terrorists" (for lackof a better term) are in it for what they believe -- they are not being "drafted" and forced to fight, there are no "sign-up" bonuses, no health benefits or promises of paying for education - they are in it because they truly believe.

although I agree that in this "war" it is necessary to use a military option in certain instances - the military should not be at the forefront leading and directing the war. You do not change, temper or otherwise modify a person's belief or a group's belief by dropping bombs on them - if anything it makes them even more steadfast in their beliefs. It also makes them martyrs for their cause - which in turn reinforces the "rightousness" of their cause