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Originally posted by Virus Good question. I think that the best thing would have been to try to better the US relations with the Arab people and for example having a less biased view on the middle-east conflict. This would have lessened the hate and therefore the risk of attacks. Frankly, I don't think the US has accomplished hardly anything by these wars except gain control over a lot of energy sources, getting very unpopular in the process. Did they find evidence of Saddams connection with Al Qaida? Did they find the WMDs? And considering the continuing deaths of American soildiers I can't see how anyone can reason that "its worth it" since there obviously didn't exist an immediate threat. Saddam is no saint, thats true, but this war has caused a lot of suffering for all the wrong reasons. As for Afghanistan its so insecure that even aid organizations get attacked with granades. And the american military doesn't even venture outside of Kabul. http://www.msf.org/countries/page.c...BF023A761469B0C As I see it there is only more hate now and hate feeds terrorism. This is why I don't think the War on Terrorism is a good solution.

it's not like it was better before (perhaps more stable, but not better for the people...)

but i agree that US's biased view on the israel conflict is a big problem. a relative of mine has worked as a missionary in several arabic countries. He told me that the major problem for them was that US was supporting israel so much... so one way of decreasing the terror threat in the US is to solve the israel-palestina conflict (how easy that is..).