Terrorism - The US Military Cannot Defeat the Terrorists :: Argumentative Persuasive Topics

The US Military Cannot Defeat the Terrorists   One Source    One of the consequences of the horrendous terrorist attacks of September 11 is that the United States is marching off to war in numerous countries around the globe.  Given the terrible damage and large numbers of casualties, it is hardly surprising that intimately Americans want to destroy the terrorist organization(s) that launched the attacks and the government(s) that aided and abetted the terrorists.  Unfortunately, there has been remarkably little public discussion as to why people from the Middle East chose to become self-destruction bombers intent on piloting air liners into enormous office buildings filled with people.  Nor has there been much deliberation regarding the probable consequences of using military machine force to revenge terrorists and the governments that harbor them.             President George W. Bush struck a popular chord when he charged that terrorists have attacked America because we argon freedoms home and upholder.  In his analysis, Americans are innocent victims of barbaric people that hate freedom and hate what we stand for. The victims on the four highjacked planes and in the buildings were innocent victims, but President Bush is verbalise a widely held myth whenever he argues that the terrorist attacks were designed to destroy freedom and res publica in the United States, or that the United States was attacked because it is the defender of freedom and democracy abroad.  In fact, the United States was attacked, not because of its political ideals, but rather because of its governments foreign policy in the Middle East.                During World War II and in the historic period after, U.S. power flowed into the region.  There the U.S. government sought allies in the fight against fascism, then communism, and lastly against an expansionist Iraq.  In these conflicts American policy makers were not token about who the help they recruited.  Brutal dictatorships, repressive military governments, and absolute monarchies were all recipients of U.S. economic and military assistance.  In Iran the United States government even went so far-off as to overthrow the countrys democratically elected parliamentary government in 1953.               Today, the United States government arms and trains the militaries of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, and American troops help defend these countries.  But these countries are run by monarchies that deny fundamental democratic rights to their peoples and vigorously oppress any opponents to their rule.  The United States government also supports with extensive military and economic aid a corrupt one-party dictatorship in Egypt.