Oh, this will be fun.
Well, I guess you are right, there is no war, we are not having military conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, we should just chill out and forget about it all. <-SARCASM
No, you're not having a military conflict in Iraq. That ended years ago with the fall of Saddam's regime - Remember Bush in front of that big victory banner? That was it. What you're having there now is a cluster**** of a rebuilding operation brought on by the unwillingness of the US government to make any real plans for what was going to happen after they had won. Afghanistan is definitely a military conflict, but it's not the War on Terror
TM. It was back when the Taleban were harbouring bin Laden, and you'll notice that the Afghanistan war actually had US backing and that the UN was (and still is) supported by many other countries (your so-called fair weather friends among them), but it is not anymore. Now it's a mess of tribal warlords all wanting to be the next big guy on the block.
France isn't a fair weather friend? They just left us when we needed them, when we weren't doing the popular thing, when it wasn't clean and proper, when every other nation in Europe was not also behind us. If that isn't a fair weather friend, then I don't know what is.
They apposed us invading Iraq because they didnt want us to see the French writing on their weapons, or maybe it was because of the bunkers.
They didn't support you on Iraq because you lied, decieved, threatened and bullied. That's not the way to keep your allies around. But that has already been covered nicely by other posters (and, hell, by myself in earlier posts), so I'll just offer this: See
This Picture? That's from operation Enduring Freedom - Among the ships in that fleet are the FS Surcouf, FS De Grasse and FS Charles de Gaulle, also known as FS Fairweather 1, 2 and 3 in your terminology. Funny how they didn't shy away when the cause was actually just and the US government didn't lie to their face, isn't it?
History proved what? How about you wait for the facts to come out. When this whole mess is over and done with, then history can speak, because this chapter is not finished yet.
No WMDs were found in Iraq, despite the US government having allegedly identified many sites before the war. No ties existed between Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, despite US claims to the contrary. Indeed, there was no presence of his organization at all in Iraq prior to Saddam's fall... he was by no means a devout muslim, so he kept them out - They were a threat to him, too. They only moved in after the US failed miserably at creating some semblence of order once the war was won. Those are the reasons presented by the US government for the Iraq war. Both were lies. What more playing out needs to be done?
Yes, I realize Ossama Bin Laden was originally funded, by the US, in the cold war so he could fight the Soviet Union (a government that executed more people than Hitler did) I never said he wasnt. What does it have to do with anything now?
Attacks are up "significantly" because they are fighting for their lives now, thats what a war is, two sides fighting. However since you belive there is now war, then I guess you might be alramed by it.
Do I really need to point out the fallacy in the argument that someone who is willing to blow himself up is fighting harder because he's afraid he might die? They're fighting harder because they have the means to fight harder, handed to them on a silver platter by president George W. Bush himself when he decided to invade Iraq. That place in its current state in a terrorist's dream, easy access to every toy you could ever want, except of course WMDs since Iraq didn't have any. But maybe they can buy from North Korea which does, and with which the US has for some reason decided to forego any response. Probably because they aren't as helpless and could actually fight back a little bit, which wouldn't be so good for public opinion as a nice, easy war against little Saddam.
Gee wiz, the way you make it sound we are being attacked every day, and dieing by the hundreds, unable to speak out because of our government taking our freedoms, while the terrorists go home to milk and cookies.
No, that's the thing. There aren't many attacks. Attacks are up since the War on Terror
TM started, but there still aren't many of them. Which is why the response by the US government is all the more extreme - They could save 50 times as many american lives with 1% of the money spent on that so-called war if they simply applied it towards health care or making roads safer. But those things don't keep a president in his job. Wars do. Especially if it's against an enemy you can't see (and thus can't fight, but they don't tell you that part).