Jessica Taylor wrote in
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mike regish wrote:

Um...what about the 15 from Saudi Arabia? Now they're freakin'
everywhere?

mike

"Jessica Taylor" wrote in message
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mike regish wrote:

Nice mature thought process you have there, but wrong. There
are/were radical
muslims in numerous countries, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan,
United
States, France, Sudan, Iran, Yemen and others that want to kill
Americans.



You mean, the terrorists from September 11th? They are dead, Mike.
There is no point and never has been any point since Sept 11 2001 to
find them, nor has their been any point to only go after terrorists
from one country. If somebody is trying to kill you, why would only
want to find them in one country, to wit Afghanistan? When Pearl Harbor
was attacked, did the USA just find Japan, and hunt them down and forget
about anything else? No! We did realize that there were other threats
out there, and we better start to deal with them, hastily. And actually
the USA defended Europe from Nazi Germany and their friends in Italy,
Albania, etc. first.

Yeah, but there are some MAJOR differences between that and Iraq.

For one thing, after Pearl Harbor, the US didn't go attack Taiwan or Hong
Kong, just because the people there looked Japanese. Eventually, Japan took
both of those countries.

Iraq was focusing its energies on attacking its neighbors and killing
"dissidents" in its own country. The entire world was watching Iraq and
pressuring them, and might have eventually cooperatively taken action. But
unlike Nazi Germany in WWII, Iraq did was not a real threat at that time.
And unlike Nazi Germany in WWII, the US didn't come to the aid of its
Allies where were under attack. It unilaterally told the rest of the world
to **** off and focused all attention on an attack that really had very
little to do with destroying Al Queada - the aggressors at hand.

The result was that we lost credibility with the rest of the nations as
being hot-headed cowboys run by the Super Cowboy. We lost all credibility
with our own government and allies when it came out that there were no
WMDs. And we lost all credibility with terrorists because we never finished
the job of abolishing Al Queda and making them history.

And now they are back and looking for their next victory.

Terrorists will believe that they can attack the "All Powerful American
Heretic" and run and hide in the mountains, and we can do nothing about it
but stomp our feet and attack other Arab countries, perhaps countries that
they already despise, like Iraq. Or perhaps countries who will become their
Martyrs and help unify the Arab Nations against us.

The war in Iraq was driven by overconfidence on the part of our government,
and regardless of the fact that Saddam Hussein was personally removed and
embarrassed, we lost in a big way.