Bush's constant use of the "war on terror" has annoyed me from the beginning. How on earth can you have a war on terror? Terror is an emotion. Today, I see many people decorating their homes so they may scare or terrorize kids on Halloween.
This is not the type of terror Bush is talking about. Definitely not. He is trying to make you feel scared of losing your life. He wants you to feel real terror. Instilling fear in Americans has been and is the reason for the phrase "war on terror." When you are afraid, you tend to do as you are told; Bush stays in control.
However, we were definitely attacked on 9/11. We were terrorized and 3000 of us were killed. After such a catastrophe, rational people should ask who did it. We did ask and we found out that a group of gangsters under the name of Al Qaeda did it. So America attacked Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda, was pursued and he got away.
Here we made a huge mistake. Instead of pursuing Osama bin Laden and bringing this terrorist to justice, we left Afghanistan and attacked Iraq, which at that time had no Al Qaeda members.
What we started in Iraq is a war. It is not a "war on terror," nor is it even a "war on terrorists." It is a war brought about by the proliferation or the perception of proliferation of nuclear weapons or WMD.
When India and Pakistan got the bomb, Bush said all is well, because India and Pakistan balance each other. Now that Iran and North Korea are working on nuclear bombs, Bush is against both of them. Why? Japan will no doubt develop a bomb to balance North Korea's bomb, and Iran's bomb will balance the bombs Israel has. All this balance is called Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD).
MAD has worked before. However, there definitely must be a limit, after which we may blow up the entire world. To prevent this terrifying end to the world, we must find a way to stop nuclear proliferation. A rational person should look to the possessors of the most nuclear bombs: Russia and U.S., each of which has more than 5,000 of them.
Russia and U.S. should return to cutting down their nuclear arsenals in order to show the world how to reduce the dangers from nuclear weapons. In this way they may be able to reactivate the nuclear proliferation treaty that has been dormant of late.
There is plenty of danger in the world. But it does not help us that our president is terrorizing us with his "war on terror." Through diplomatic and military means we can destroy Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. Through the bold reduction of american nuclear bombs and through diplomacy, we can bring the world back from the brink of world destruction.
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