Originally posted by midnight Target
Oh please, What do you want, landing sites and troop strength dispositions? My "plan" is no more or less thought out than Bush's plan for ending the war in Iraq.
And saying Afghanistan is quiet while Iraq isn't is just funny. Iraq was quiet, until we invaded it...... to protect ourselves from WMD.
#1 You have no idea what Bush`s plan on ending the war in Iraq is. None of us do. I can tell you that it will not be "instantly" as some of you seem to be jumping up and down about. Maybe you would have preferred that he set up a press conference in the beginning and alid it out for everyone. It`s not just Iraq and Afghanistan involved in the whole picture. It`s far more wide reaching than that. I sort of expect that , by your statements, that if you noticed a rattlesnake in your yard that you would grab a garden hoe and promptly chop off it`s tail and think the threat was over.
The way things are being done and have been done are about as good as it gets IMO. A full scale, full blown invasion into Afghanistan, such as was done in Iraq, would have been a major waste if you want to talk about waste. It would have been sort of like being all dressed up and nothing to do after we got there. They would have scattered like fleas. What is being done there is the only way to go. Slow and methodicaly is the only way it will work. It is only a starting place, such as Iraq. It reachs far further than that. They have had many years plotting , training and most importantly, building up a network of safe havens and financing from many different countries. Some of these have been very transparently claiming to be western allies. The gravy train for these people are having their free ride severed. Iraq is like a huge rat trap baited with prime cheese. The rats are flocking in by the numbers, but they are having to show their faces for the first time. We are methodicaly stomping their heads in the sand as they come in. It`s not instant. Neither was the planining and network setup for the terrorists.
#2 You say that Iraq was quiet until we invaded it. Yea, they were quietly slaughtering anyone who got in their way under the leadership of one of the world`s most notorious mass murders and tyrants the world has seen since Hitler. More importantly they were participating in the training facilities, financial pipelining, safe havens for the network of terrorists. The end goal was to eliminate and destroy anything in their path and who disagreed with them and got in their way to destroy US, the western world. It didn`t start last year or the year before or the year before that and it won`t be set straight instantly. If we continued to set back and do nothing, as had been being done, the attack on the twin towers would have been a Sunday walk in the park. Giving your enemy an open door and the entire world to operate while you sit on your fat, pampered behinds and wait is not too stratgicaly sound. Seems the very ones who wished to ignore and not address an obvious and growing problem over the last years are the very same group of folks who made the loudest whines after the twin towers attack wanting to know why it wasn`t avoided before it happened. They are also the ones who, now that action is being taken to protect our country from future attacks, that are screaming and whining about how things are being done and want instant gratification and go back to the "don`t rock my boat and everything is peachy" mode. They would also be the ones who would lament and gansh their teeth the loudest upon another attack. One that would have surely came and most certainly is possible to come as things are now. We are not insulated. We don`t have a force field around us.What we are doing is beginning to make an attempt to protect ourself from our enemy. Finaly.....and it`s just the beginning.
