There is no War on Terror

911 only happened due to incredible incompetence by the Federal government. The plan for 911, including hijacking with box cutters was found on Ramzi Yousef's computer in the Philippines in 1995 by the CIA. They gave that information to the FBI who never considered that it might be a good idea to tell the FAA to review their airline crew training, or perhaps think about putting a real door in cockpits. The government had the plan for six years and did NOTHING to protect Americans.

The people in Yemen and Pakistan, in Mali and Libya have no way to hurt America. If they attack a US embassy, that is a crime, not an act of war because they do not act on the behalf of a state. There are criminals that should be dealt with through international police work and through the police services in the countries that they live in. They should not be used as an excuse for the American military domination of the world.

There is no war, there is an American military presence in various countries that is killing people, and not surprisingly suffering some casualties in return. But it is not a war.

The Taliban for instance doesn't field any weapon more sophisticated than an RPG against the military might of the most expensive army in the history of the world. If you call that a war, then please concede that the US military is clearly the most pathetic organization to ever put on a uniform. They have lost every single operation that they have been involved in since WWII with the exception of Grenada. You should be ashamed to think that the US is losing wars against illiterate, poorly armed, and outnumbered tribesmen.

But the reality is that it is not war. It is police work done with an army. That is why it doesn't work. Police work needs to be done with police methods and personnel. That is hard for Americans to understand in today's world because the American police have also become militarized.

Al Qaeda has ceased to exist as an international organization. There are numerous new salafist organizations that want to hurt the US, punish US stooges and attack Israel for the simple reason that the US has been killing thousands of Muslims a year for many years and because Israel has stolen the Palestinians land and their future.

But there is no international organization. Aiman al Zawahiri is not controlling these different groups from some bomb shelter in the mountains of Yemen.

The principle architects of 911 met and planned the attack in an apartment in Hamburg Germany, then they sent the hijackers to the US, where they trained for the Attack.

There's no war, no fighting for freedom, no defense of country going on. There's just people dying while other people make money.