When will the 'War on Terror' end?

[Solly Mack]

Poll question: When will the 'War on Terror' end?

or the 'Overseas Contingency Operation' , if you prefer to call it that.

[laststeamtrain]

1. Other: When the 'empire' is no more.

No more bases, no more occupations, no more 'development' (stealing resources).

Terrorism is the weapon of the weak. It's cheap. Sometimes it works. As long as the powerful exploit the weak there will be terrorism.

Such a no-brainer.

'Little Mary Sunshine' is my middle name.

[Lasher]

2. I voted never.

If you don't believe me ask any neocon. They seem to have a lot to say about it.

[Warren Stupidity]

3. After this shell of a Republic collapses.

We are locked in to War on Terror, War on Drugs, anything but War On Stupidity. Between the banksters, MIC thugs, and PIC goons, with their vast army of moral harpies and syrupy slick media idiots, there is no hope until we have a real and profound crackup on the order of what happened to the former soviet union.

I had some hope for a while that the crackup was imminent. It was scary, but I welcomed the demise of the World Odor. Now it seems once again that the banksters and thugs have managed to muddle through yet another profound shock to their Crappy System on its slow grind down towards the inevitable singular contradiction between a sustainable environment for human civilization and an economic system that requires perpetual growth.

[cherokeeprogressive]

4. Is this a serious question that begs an answer, or just a rhetorical one?

In seeing that you included "I like kittens", it's hard to take seriously.

I voted never FWIW.

[Solly Mack]

7. I like including kittens

A little levity doesn't stop the serious from being serious.

Thank you for voting.

[mikehiggins]

5. I like kittens. I should add I also like puppies and some small children

mostly those related to my family. (the kids I mean, not the kittens or puppies)

As to the what? War on terror? I wasn't aware there was one. Of course, I slso think that the various well-publicised claims that Charmin is "squeezably soft" are also most likely advertising hype. And while we're on that subject, did Mr. Whipple and Vince Foster meet similarly bad ends?

Amurika wants to no.

[mmonk]

6. If it no longer is profitable for those it currently benefits.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. When the politicians and generals can no longer milk the people for their kids and money.

[shirlden]

9. I have nothing to fear

The terra-rist twins, * and Cheenee are no longer in the White House. The war on terror is over for me.


:evilgrin:

[Posteritatis]

10. It's gotten war-on-drugsed, so I'd say another 20-30 years (nt)

[Mark Twain Girl]

11. Why, when Oceania wins the war against Eastasia. Of course.

Next I'll be hearing that we weren't always at war with Eastasia! Heavens.

[TheWatcher]

12. There is no such thing as "The War On Terror"

It's a Phony War just like the "War On Drugs", or other Circuses Of Bullshit your government has brought you the past 50 years as a real war, but is nothing more than a facade to advance an agenda that has little if anything to with the interests of We The People, The Constitution,or the Good Of The Country.

It's nothing more than a Marketing Slogan for the Criminal Mafia that runs our country now.

[blues90]

13. They picked just the right words with full intent of keeping the fear

ramped up. That's all it is. All it takes is to mix in hate and fear of race and the need for a resource we are running out of and title it war on terror and hit it with shock and awe.

[EFerrari]

14. The War On Poverty went away but like the War on Drugs

this fake war is too profitable to go away.

[Uncle Joe]

15. 11/5/2014 1:PM EST after lunch. n/t

[Greyhound]

16. Well, Sol will go nova in about 8 billion years, so never is not accurate.

But I'm pretty sure anybody that reads this will be dead long before victory is declared.

[csziggy]

17. Other: About a week after the War on Drugs ends n/t

[HughBeaumont]

18. Wouldn't it have to START before it can END?

Saudis, UAE. . . ans and Egyptians attacked the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. America demands swift retaliation.

What do we do (well, besides look for a link to Iraq, which was being done by Rummy the Dummy and Rove HOURS AFTER 9-11)

Well, we can't attack Saudi Arabia. Too much cronyism, oil and love affairs between the House of Bush and Saud.

Can't attack UAE. Too much money. And oil.

Can't attack Egypt. Not much going on there.

So we attack Afghanistan. After all, that . . . Taliban is there and they housed Bin Laden. I think. They wouldn't turn him over. Oh wait, they did offer to. I think. That lasted a whole few months. Still no Bin Laden.

"Weeellllll, SOMEone has to git it for 9-11!! Maght as wail be EYE RACK!!"

Conveniently, we forget about Bin Laden (there really IS no concrete evidence that he was behind or even helped PLOT 9-11, as far as I know) and go after CIA asset Saddam Hussein and his dastardly Weapons of Mass Destruction (2003, RNC. All rights reserved)!

So . . . let me get this straight. Some terrsts from three different nations attack us, and in retaliation, we attack two sovereign nations that had nothing to do with 9/11 or anything else that's ever happened to us for that matter. And all of it was based on concocted "intelligence" and flimsy "evidence". And theories. And . . . pretty much America's ingrained hatred for anyone Iraqi.

Um. Yeah. That makes an arseton of sense, don't it?

[blogslut]

19. Sigh

When big nations stop propping up the dictators and despots of little nations in an effort to prevent those little nations from becoming autonomous nations.

[bemildred]

20. When the fatheads in Washington no longer think it will get them re-elected. nt