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This 3 page paper discusses the methods we can use to win the "war on terror" and whether or not it can be won in the first place. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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only weapon that has a chance of defeating U.S. military might. This paper considers whether or not-and how-we can win this struggle. The Danger of Ideology Any time we set
out to beat something intangible, like "terror" or "poverty," we are almost sure to fail. Terror is a feeling, not an object, and poverty has so many causes, and manifests
in so many ways, that trying to devise a general strategy to combat it is unworkable. There are many theories about why terrorists use the methods they do, but
its generally conceded that they use extreme measures because they feel they cannot get the recognition of their cause that they need any other way. They are stateless, inconsequential, ignored-and
this has nothing to do with their education or income. They feel powerless, and choose the only way they know to get their government-or ours-to pay attention to them. In
the end, then, terrorism is based on the powerlessness that some individuals feel; that is, we are dealing with emotions and ideas. Thus the idea of waging a "war on
terror" makes no sense from the beginning. Nor does an all or nothing, "if youre not with us youre against us" approach work well. Taking this absolutist position "refuses to
consider the real grievances that help terrorists recruit" (Dickey, 2006). It also means that the U.S. will be locked into a struggle in which the only way to win is
to "break their will, humiliate them, vilify them, first in the name of self-defense and then, curiously, in the name of freedom" (Dickey, 2006). But this sort of tactic "only
makes sense over the long term if you think you can keep a lid on those societies indefinitely, or have the money and skills and manpower and blood to transform
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