Do you think the United States-led war on terrorism has been
effective? Sandy Harris
Fifth-year, psychology
“We’re so disingenuous, the United States.
We’re not putting our true agenda forward. I think its really
unethical and pretty horrific that a nation is going to benefit
from monetarily rebuilding a nation that it bombed to
“˜liberate’ a people. It’s just really fighting
that corporations like Halliburton, which was first in, is going to
benefit before anyone else and it just happens to be a corporation
that our lovely vice president used to head before he joined the
Bush Ticket. …It’s really bad.” Gregory Andreev
Graduate student, biomathematics
“I think we’re just getting lucky. I think (the war
on terrorism) is doing more harm than good … for all the hassle
people have to go through, all the extra security. In my opinion,
it’s not going to stop anything. Regarding all the added
measures, a lot of time they’re just using the extra laws
they’ve made to make people criminals ““ to make people
seem like they are terrorists ““ when their crime was
completely unrelated. I think terrorism will happen no matter what
they do.” Michael Donahue
Fourth-year, political science
“I think it’s been effective on American soil, not
really worldwide, such as Palestine and Saudi Arabia. But we
can’t be sure it’s going to be effective in the future,
because it seems like every day they tell us there’s going to
be another attack. So, we’re just waiting for something to
happen again. In general I’d say it’s effective, but
maybe we can attack (terrorists) worldwide; do more of the stuff
we’ve been doing in Afghanistan … taking out the al -Qaeda camps
and basically focusing worldwide more than focusing on our own
airports.” Daniel Weintraub
Second-year, history
“I’d say the war on terrorism has been effective,
because it serves the interests of the people who created it. It
has been able to effectively make the regular voters apathetic to
the issues that are going on internationally, such as international
poverty, hunger, racism and discrimination in our own country.
Basically, it allows the ruling class to be able to effectively
(use) propaganda and security measures to implement their interests
in America. So, I think the war on terrorism is working for the
people it’s supposed to be working for … such as the Bush
administration and business interests around the world.”
Compiled by Derek Lazzaro/Daily Bruin Senior Staff, Photos by
Daniel Feldman/Daily Bruin