Another success is that the Patriot Act, one of the motives, has begun to work as it says in Source 17 “…the Patriot Act has restricted civil liberties…” which shows success. This could come under the ‘bracket’ fear as a means of control which shows success that the USA are taking over the terrorist nation thus eventually stopping the training of them.
Another success, stated in Source 20 with “…invading and occupying the Muslim holy land,” is that the USA is taking control over major parts of the terrorist nation and stopping their training, thus preventing more attacks.
A success of the war on terror is that some information has been gathered as is shows in Source 23. It says “UK tracking ’30 UK terror plots.’” This shows that inside knowledge was gained, proving that the UK has valuable and reliable sources of knowledge and information. The main success of the war on terror is that Saddam Hussein was captured and hanged, thus showing that some terrorist leaders have been captured and more may be in the future.
Overall the war on terror has had quite a few successes so far and more may become noticed soon. From this information I would say that the war on terror could be a success.
The war on terror could also be a failure because of the following failures that have already come to pass.
“…background by the mayhem…” from Source 16 shows that democracy has not been taken on board by the terrorist nation, thus meaning that this is a failure of one of the motives, trying to introduce democracy. “…the Patriot Act has restricted civil liberties…” also supports this motive because restricting civil liberties is against what the democracy that USA are trying to enforce. “Among the disenfranchised and disaffected of the Islamic world…” also shows that democracy had not been spread throughout the terrorist nation and so resulting in a failure.
Another failure of the war on terror is that governments aren’t cooperating. This shows that the USA have failed at splitting the world into opposes and supporters of terrorism. The war on terror is still trying to enforce this but has no effect as of yet.
Another failure of the war on terror is, from Source 21, “Death tolls – both military and civilian…” shows that there are still potential terrorists, with potential leaders at large. If all of the terrorists and terrorist leaders had been captured or killed then there would be no need for the war to continue thus resulting in many less deaths. The main failure of the war on terror is that it is continuing. If all of the aims were met, then the war would be over thus showing that not many have been.
Overall there are also many failures of the war on terror. From this information the war on terror may not succeed.
In conclusion I would say that the war on terror is destined for failure because only one terrorist leader has been captured so far and many more are out there. Also attacks are still happening which shows that the security and safety that the war on terror was supposed to bring, has not come. I believe that the war on terror could last for many years to come and even if it is successful, will have to happen again. If every terrorist leader and terrorist is killed or captured then that is not the end. Terrorism could be seen like a religion. It could die out for years until a certain person hears of it and decides to bring it back, thus resulting in another war.
In my eyes the war on terror will never end thus never succeeding.
