The War on Terror, Was It the Right Answer?

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Afghanistan is a patchwork of tripe, starting with the pashtoon and more or less linked to ben laden. The pacistanes are supposed to be our allies, and they have atomic weapons. There is only one certainty, the us cannot win this war militarily. Our public opinion will not tolerate for long to see coffins coming back home for no clear purpose.

Have the West’s efforts to eradicate Al-Qaeda around the world simply been fuelling the flames of hatred and violence? Or would we have suffered even more atrocities if we’d left the militants to plot in their hiding places? Is the US right to be pursuing its hard line against militants in countries such as Pakistan and Yemen? These are just some of the questions explored in this Intelligence Squared debate from September 2011, which saw former President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf and former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Colleen Graffy defend the motion. Opposing the motion were former French foreign minister and co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières Bernard Kouchner and former UK Permanent Representative at the United Nations in New York Sir Jeremy Greenstock. The debate was chaired by BBC World News presenter Zeinab Badawi.

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