How effective is the War on Terror?

[Stronk Serb]

So, how effective it is?

In my opinion, not effective at all, If I may say, it even backfired on the West. The Taliban are still a thing and are killing way more people than ISIS. ISIS exists, and terror cells have spread everywhere in North Africa and the Middle East following the Arab Spring. I must say that the whole initiative, methaphorically speaking, tried to save a burning house with napalm.

[ShineintheDark]

I doubt anyone will disagree that the War on Terror has been an epic disaster. In trying to combat regimes and terrorism in the Middle East head-on, all we've done is foster hatred directly back at us and create the adversarial relationship we have today of Middle Eastern nations (bar Israel) and the West which as a result did indeed create ISIS as well as empower other terror organizations such as Hamas and the Taliban who promise their people to eradicate the 'Western threat.'

[mattsmith48]

The war on terror or as I like to call it fighting terrorism with terrorism is like trying to cure a headache by repeatedly hitting your head against the wall, you are just making things worst and creating long term and irreversible damage.

[bfldworker]

The war on Terror has been as effective as the war on drugs. If you don't know what that is...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_drugs

[andrea03]

Mostly ineffective.

[Jinglebottom]

Please don't bump threads that are older than 2 months. :locked: