"Geoff may be nuts. here read it again: Justice would be to carpet bomb the place and let them rot. Or just ignore them- they doing just fine making their own hell. "
You copied exactly what I said. [It's so refreshing.]
But as I also said our action in Afghanistan was not about justice, rather it was about national security.
Both Afghanistan and Iraq is about national security- it's about long strategic goals.
No quick answers will solve this terrorism threat- it's something that we should have dealt with much sooner. The problem was we did not have the political will to act- and there was lots of "good excuses" not to act more aggressively. But 911 changed this political reality. 911 is very similar to Pearl Harbor. It was not if the war began with Pearl Harbor- Japan was in China and Germany was rampaging across Europe. But Pearl Harbor did get our attention and was politically used to get America fullly engaged in the war in Europe and later defeat Japan.
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The whole thread (28 posts)
- The Golden Rule
- Everybody's mad at France, Raoul, where ya been? ;-) (n/t)
- re: The Golden Rule
- Jeez. Don't hate us because we are beautiful. (n/t)
- A little early in the morning to be smoking crack, isnt it?
- re: A little early in the morning to be smoking crack, isnt it?
- "The Taliban is what the Afghanistans selected"- I think we can all agree gbaikie has finally lost it...
- They "selected" the Taliban?
- Apparently not...
- re: A little early in the morning to be smoking crack, isnt it?