Originally posted by SaburoS
Go ahead Grun, post them. Use your figures, just be honest about it.
So where was Bin Laden after 9/11? LOL, my plan would sure be a lot less costly than our present Afghanistan one. Remember we went to Afghanistan to find Bin Laden. Find him at all costs. Well after how many dead and wounded? Both military and civillians? Remember we were told that there were untold numbers of Al Quaeda training bases and that we were going to go hunt down Bin Laden and his group.
Targeting Bin Laden covertly without a huge military presence in Afghanistan would most likely result in pinpointing him. We gave him a reason to hide with our very uncovert presence.
My way would have been less costly in everyway, less of our boys coming back in coffins.
We don't have Bin Laden in custody, we've got casualties, inflicted civillian casualties, spent big dollars. REAL success with our Afghanistan campaign... OOOOKAY. In the mean time here's betting he and his group aren't even in Afghanistan anymore. Can't find someone who isn't there. We're wasting good men and resources on a poorly planned military ops.
So why are we really in Afghanistan, again?
And why are you really in Iraq, again ?
In both cases it looks like propaganda cover-up of some other, deeper reasons.
Could these moves (occupation of Afganistan and Iraq) be of some global strategic importance for the USA administration?
There are some other global powers in the neighborhood : Russia and India, Pakistan and China (congrats on the recent newborn Chinese babyboy # 1, 300 000, 000) .