Now Bin Laden has gone...

[billybones]

Now that Bin Laden has gone, the war on Terrorists continue... Is there ever going to be an end to fighting???


I`m not going to argue if the war on terror is a good or bad thing but would like to simply know what it would take for it to be declared over or is it a war that will never end???

I`m not old enough to be around but what happened in Vietnam?
Did all the allied forces simply pack thier bags and leave or did they just not send anymore troops??

 

[Alecia the Foxx]

Honestly, it makes no difference whether Bin Laden is alive or dead. The worldwide cell network he set up was created to function independently of him. Nothing has changed.

 

[Farm Boy]

Terrorists have been around for a while Bill .

Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries, belonged to a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

Fawkes was born and educated in York. His father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a recusant Catholic. Fawkes later converted to Catholicism and left for the continent, where he fought in the Eighty Years' War on the side of Catholic Spain against Protestant Dutch reformators. He travelled to Spain to seek support for a Catholic rebellion in England but was unsuccessful. He later met Thomas Wintour, with whom he returned to England.

Wintour introduced Fawkes to Robert Catesby, who planned to assassinate King James I and restore a Catholic monarch to the throne. The plotters secured the lease to an undercroft beneath the House of Lords, and Fawkes was placed in charge of the gunpowder they stockpiled there. Prompted by the receipt of an anonymous letter, the authorities searched Westminster Palace during the early hours of 5 November, and found Fawkes guarding the explosives. Over the next few days, he was questioned and tortured, and eventually he broke. Immediately before his execution on 31 January, Fawkes jumped from the scaffold where he was to be hanged and broke his neck, thus avoiding the agony of the drawing and quartering that followed.

Fawkes became synonymous with the Gunpowder Plot, which has been commemorated in England since 5 November 1605. His effigy is burned on a bonfire, often accompanied by a firework display.

 

[racer]

The problem is that the US is at war with an idea, not a person. Killing an idea/believe is much harder than killing a person.

Bin Laden's death is certainly a milestone for the people of America, but its hardly the end of the fight. I think there will be attempts to avenge his death, but to what degree of success is the big question.

The relationship between the US and Pakistan will also generate some interesting headlines in the near future IMO.

 

[WRXXR]

Problem is Billy that Osama was the face and early financer of al queda but we
forget about all the other Islamist militant terror groups on the streets in other parts shitsville. Plenty will be happy to step into the spotlight.

Until the can control that area completely and put in people to run the show (uh oh...), they will continue to be at war. They may even need to defend Pakistan. I don't know!

 

[BigBlackCock]

The irony is that the US financed Osama in his earlier days as an Afghani freedom fighter against the russians.