Y'know? Someone should really clear this up for me!

Submitted by Kayla (United States), Jan 21, 2011 at 23:27

And so, on our media, it states "War on terror". I read that "We're fighting against an ideology".

One problem.

Who do we shoot? I have the sudden urge to yell "The media said Osama and Al-Qaeda!" But where are they? Are they still in Iraq.

I would also like to point out that if 1,000+ guys showed up on your front door with massive guns and foreign faces demanding something in another language, you would more than likely be terrified and have no idea how to react.

How can you tell an innocent person from a guilty one? I wanted to also say that there are 'islamists' among 'islamics' in other countries. Will we invade them too? What if terrorists to other countries escaped to the U.S. What if the other country felt the same about their terrorists as we our past terrorists? Would we let them invade? Heck no! We'd pick up our arms, wouldn't we? Even if in the process we protect the terrorists without knowing it. And then, tada! We're at war (?)

I'm not saying "this war is stupid!" because it's pretty dangerous for one to say that isn't it?

But whatever, I'm probably just missing the point.......somehow.

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