War on terror has only led to more strikes, deaths

The Times of India reports on the Global War on Terrorism are not reports of successes. They instead are reports of losses and questioning of financial squandering. Since the 9/11 attacks President Bush announced a Global War on Terrorism. This war has three main objectives. The first being Operation Enduring Freedom, the second is Operation Iraqi Freedom and the third is Operation Noble Eagle. Within these three operations $542.9 billion has been spent collaboratively to head this war. Operation Enduring Freedom is the operations within Afghanistan, Africa, trans-Sahara and the Philippines. This operation has spent $76.5 billion since the beginning. The largest consumer of the budget is the Operation Iraqi Freedom, which is the war in Iraq, costing $324.9 billion. Operation Noble Eagle is the component that should concern us the most. It is the operation that is securing our safety here in the U.S. and it has cost $27.7 billion. With these financial figures one would think that the war should have produced an outcome of less terror in the world considering that is the main objective of the war in the first place. However, this is not the case. Since the 9/11 attacks the number of attacks are increasing and the number of lives lost due to the attacks are also increasing. Even if you exclude the number of attacks and losses in Iraq the numbers are up. Before 9/11 the average terrorist attacks were 106 per month. After the 9/11 attack and after the War on Terrorism the attacks increased to 186 per month. The death toll is increasing from 109 deaths per month to 195 per month due to terrorist attacks. If you include the death toll in Iraq the numbers skyrocket to 444 per month. This is an unacceptable amount of terror and death. If you take into consideration how much funding has been offered within the past six years to stop terrorism and to only see the numbers increase at a dramatically high rate, the solution has obviously not been found. In the mean time, precious American dollars are being sent to a cause that is not succeeding and has not been succeeding for some time. Perhaps there is another way around the money squandering and a better solution to ending terror but until that is found the money will continue to be directed toward the war in Iraq. This article was written in an India newspaper so it is interesting to see how even other countries are aware of the money being spent and the lack of progress being made. However, I am not saying there is no progress being made at all. The big picture now is we have gone from spending practically nothing to almost $550 billion to stop terrorism only to find the attacks are increasing in number and lethality.
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