War on Terror

Why the War on Terror is no longer desireable, and why I will be defending the Con side. This debate will be talking about the War on Terror which was declared by the Bush administration on Oct 7 2001. This debate topic has been very vague, since Stargate doesn't specify if he's debating whether it was justified, or whether we should continue to enter countries and fight the radical groups within it.https://en.wikipedia.org...;A1: The World isn't any safer after the War of Terror was launchedThe whole point of the War on Terror was to end global Terrorism, in which the many countries, which were lead by the United States were going to countries in the middle-east, and were trying to kick out Radical-Islamic groups and Dicatators. We witnessed this in the Afghanistan War and the Iraq War. 2 wars which the United States was involved in. Since The War on Terror was declared by the Bush Administration, there has not been a decline in International Terrorism ,and infact, global terrorism has only been increasing. Please look at this graph. Here, you can clearly see that International Terrorism has not not been going down. Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the number of civilan deaths has only been rising in these countries, and the article itself claims "Since, 2000 there have been over 61,000 terrorist attacks" So, it doesn't make any sense to continue to be Pro War on Terror, when it clearly isn't even working. Since I have demonstrated how ineffective the War on Terror is, let me talk about the costs.http://www.globalresearch.ca...A2: CostI have demostrated the ineffectiveness of the War on Terror, now I will show how much American Taxpayers actually have to pay for it. According to Forbes, the War on Terror has costed nearly 1.7 trillion dollars, since it was declared in 2001. This is infographic displays this information. For something that clearly is not even working, the American taxpayers are simply throwing their money away. A3: Fundementally Flawed IdeaThe War on Terror, simply put forth is a flawed idea that will never end. The idea that you are fighting an idealogy, gives the hint that it will only end if that idelogy is stopped. The only problem is, that is impossible. It is impossible for the U.S milltary to stop Islamic terrorism, because Islamic terrorism comes from Islam. When will the a war against an idea ever end? There is no definite end. As history as showed us, as soon as one radical group is supressed, another group pops out. In the early 2000's, there was Al-Qaeda. Now the U.S as supressed Al-Qaeda, and it's influence is diminishing, we have another enemy which is ISIS. There isn't any sound argument that should make us believe defeating ISIS will end it all, because Islamic terrorism is an idea. You can't stop an idea. To make it easier to understand, basically anything ending with "ism" is impossible to completely defeat. Communism, Terrorism or Nazism. They may be supressed, but they will never go away for ever. We still have communists and Neo-Nazis in America. I have showed in my first argument, terrorism is certainly not going away, and infact is increasing. To sum it up, the War on Terror is a flawed idea, which the U.S cannot win, since the concept of fighting an idea is boundless.A4: The War on Terror lead to ISISThis will be focusing more specifically on ISIS, and how it was created. Many people believe that the U.S needs to fight ISIS, but this will basically be a repeat of what has happened before. Prior to the Syrian Civil War, We had the Iraq War. Now, what was the Iraq War? A war that was launched to take out the Dicator Saddam Hussien out of power, due to allegations he had posession of WMDs, which would pose a threat to the U.S. I'm not here to debate the Iraq War, but the result was that the Ba'athist Party of Iraq was overthrown, and this resulted in the destablization of the region. The U.S tried to bring democracy and order to Iraq, but instead of engaged in an additional 8 year war, where they were fighting radical groups which rose to power in Iraq. One of these groups which began to rise were called the "Daesh" (now known as ISIS) Daesh particpated in the Iraq insurgency, and also gain immense strength in another conflict known as the Syrian Cvil War. Eventually the group became known as ISIS, and had captured a significant portion of Syria and Iraq. Like I mentioned before, there simply is no good reason as to why defeating ISIS will end terrorism, because past events has showed that only power vaccums occur, in which other radical groups will take over. To simplify this, the War on Terror created ISIS, and going on the fight them, isn't going to solve the problem.https://en.wikipedia.org...https://en.wikipedia.org...(2003–11)