That is a better name than the so called "War on Terror" coined by former President George W. Bush. The fight against those who use terror tactics has been going on now for many, many years and the worst terror attack against America was on September 11, 2001. For the past 8 years we have deployed thousands of our troops at enormous cost in lives and money to fight an enemy we can not see, identify or locate except when they make their actions known.
How many troops do the Taliban and Al Queda have? From everything I have read our government and military leaders don't really know. When we add the 30,000 more U.S. troops that will be deployed to Afghanistan the U.S. will have approximately 100,000 troops on the ground plus what our allies have which at last count was approximately 40,000. We are told the Taliban and Al Queda are hiding in a lawless area between Pakistan and Afghanistan, we do not know how many or exactly where they are hiding because if we did they would have been eliminated in the past 8 years. We say we have a good idea where they are but in many locations we need the help of Pakistan that is sometimes rejected.
Which is the best way to fight this enemy we can not always see or find. Is a massive amount of troops and billions of dollars the right answer. If we don't know how many terrorists we are fighting how do we know when the war is over? Remember terror is a tactic of surprise. That is why they lay dormant for a period of time, regroup, replan and wait for the right time to attack again by surprise. There is another problem that has been brought out many times by our military and other leaders who know Afghanistan. Many Taliban do not like Al Queda, do not work with them, do not like Karzai and would like to see all foreign troops gone from their country and have never been branded terrorists.
It appears to this writer our government officials and military leaders have no answers for these questions or a workable plan that will win this type of war we are faced with. Something seems to be fundamentally wrong if we need a massive amount of troops and money to fight this kind of war, especially being a super power. Our people are still being told by our military leaders we do not have the resources to fight another war at the present time. If that is the case something is even more fundamentally wrong the way we are going about fighting the war against those who use terror tactics.
