--two hundred thousand soldiers and a trillion dollars aren't going to get you surgical strikes into Pakistan if Pakistan's leadership doesn't want them, or is afraid of his own people if he allows them. Pakistan is a very fragile situation.
I note that when we did attack a terrorist house in Pakistan with a drone, liberals wailed for days about how awful it all was.
--There was no drawdown in Afghanistan. Look up the numbers. Current count is about 19,000 Americans, or exactly what it was when everyone was talking about reductions in 2005.
--Hundreds of thousands of people around the world were protesting military action in Afghanistan at the time, including in the U.S. Hardly the universal support imagined now.
--We didn't "burn" anybody. They "burned" us, and in the case of France and Russia, were paid by Saddam to do it.
That entire premise is false.
The whole thread (132 posts)
- End to the Occupation
- Yo ER, you weenie!
- Time to re-label
- re: End to the Occupation
- It appears you have al Qaeda confused with the Taliban...... (n/t)
- Can I get fries with that?
- Nuclear safeguards
- re: Supersize?
- re: Absurd
- "We had to do it"
- You need to reread the president’s speeches prior to the war
- That would be 'speech', singular
- No speeches
- Allow me...
- Sure.
- Like I could stop you
- I wish I had your abilities to keep track of and find things.
- At best, liberation was a secondary, if not even tertiary reason
- You ought to review Powell's case before the UN (n/t)
- That would be 'speech', singular
- You need to reread the president’s speeches prior to the war
- (Sorry, meant for Tech1) (n/t)
- Why leave?
- Occupying countries where we are hated, creates terrorists. Or is that the goal? (n/t)
- John Howard on "creating terrorists"
- Could you reprint the BinLaden quotes where he talks about our occupation of his holy land? (n/t)
- While what Howard said was true, it was irrelevant to what alcaray said. (n/t)
- John Howard on "creating terrorists"
- re: Why leave?
- Why go in the first place?
- Occupying countries where we are hated, creates terrorists. Or is that the goal? (n/t)
- re: End to the Occupation
- I would agree