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Jessica Taylor wrote in
: "Eventually" with respect to Hong Kong was just a few weeks after Pearl Harbor's bombing. .... No doubt about it, Iraq is a very tough situation, for a lot of historical reasons. But by taking the fight of Al-Quaeda back to their turf away from North America, a tide was turned. Remember that many of The point is that regardless of the justification used, the attack on Iraq was about racism and vengence. You have it, because in your mind moving the war to Iraq put it on "their turf". Iraq is not Al-Queda's turf. Afghanistan is. We should have flattened Afghanistan, and dealt with Iraq separately, in cooperation with our allies. All Arabs are not the same. these same countries that you claim we lost credibility with are also the same nations that did NOTHING for years and years while their neighbor was spitting on a peace treaty (...sounds familiar) and building up a military, arms, strategic infrastructure, etc. That eventually uncontained neighbor than caused unprecedented catastrophes and human suffering. Today, technology does not require any such large military or arms to create such catastrophes and human suffering. If the UN would not enforce the cease-fire with Baghdad, who would ? The UN WAS taking steps. GW just didn't think they were tough enough. When he presented his case to the UN, they told him it wasn't time yet. He didn't want to listen and did it anyway. Eventually, if Iraq really was to become a threat, the UN reaction would have adjusted appropriately. We also had intelligence, not only from our own agencies, but from Russia, France, Germany, United Kingdom etc. that suggested that Iraq was on its way to building such technology. Since then, we have found Korea was closer to building such technology. Keep in mind, during the 1990s, we had a New York World Trade Center bombing, embassies attacked/bombed, ships attacked. etc. Terrorists learned in Somalia that by attacking US forces (even under UN forces), they will run away. So now instead of running away, we demolished their neighbor's country. How is that any better. If I'm the terrorist, I'm laughing even harder. Do not forget that Baghdad was bombed severely by the USA in 1998 (with more bombs than the entire 1991 gulf war) and this accomplished nothing but defiance and more spitting on the 1991 peace treaty (..sounds familiar). And were the results in 2003 really all that much different? It just moved the enemy back underground and made them harder to find. To me the only good terrorist is a good one, I don't care where they may hail from. Perhaps it would be better to have a murdering dictator back in power. But I'm glad he's offline. Your racism is showing. |
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