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Originally posted by Displaced Flames fan+Sep 7 2004, 06:23 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Displaced Flames fan @ Sep 7 2004, 06:23 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-FlamesAllTheWay@Sep 7 2004, 05:42 AM
So that's my big question. How has Bush done a good job in fighting terror between Sept. 11th, and now??
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3/4 of the known Al Qaeda leadership has been killed of captured. Their finances have been severely disrupted. A dictator who harbored terrorists (Abu Nidal, Zarqauwi) and who funded Hamas suicide bombers in Israel has been put in check.
None of this has made a difference in your eyes? [/b][/quote]
I can't help shake the feeling that for every terrorist that's rounded up or killed, 2 more are created because of Bush's way of fighting terror.
Alot of people may have only disliked the USA before Iraq, but then seeing your country or another arab country invaded by the USA (depending upon your residence) may be enough to turn dislike into blind hatred and thus turn mere talk of how bad the USA is into firing an RPG at a convoy or something akin to that.
These radicals in the Middle East seem to have quite a crop of people to pick from as new recruits. Couple that with what I said above and the fact that most of the media sources over there have a distinct anti-American slant to them, and it's not that hard to imagine my initial statment: that for every terrorist that's rounded up or killed, 2 more are created.
Anyways, those are just my thoughts. I have no idea how people can think Bush is doing a great job fighting terror when you compare the USA's standing in the world right after 9-11 and now. Think of all the money that could have gone into intelligence, homeland security, the FBI, etc, that is instead going into fighting a war that can't be won in Iraq. And think of the higher esteem the USA would be held in on the world scale as well...