Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
I didnt call you stupid, I said it was stupid of you to say it. There is a difference.
Where all we deal with on a BBS is the printed word, it's the same thing. Can it as it's not necessary.
Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
Afhganistan was used to plan, coordibate and develop this idea and others. Though 911 is brilliantly simple in concept the actual exacution and implementation are very difficult and in fact the operation took years to put together. I think you greatly underestimate the impoprtance of that secure base, one safe from police inbtervention, one ideolgically compatible with Al Qeda policies and one politically agreeable to supporting Bin Laden.
As for the war itself, this IS NOT Iraq, pretty much everry meaningful government on earth agreed it was the right thing to do. Lets also not forget the world did ask the Taliban to turn Bin Laden over, they refused.
So the issue now is what do you think should have been done? Tell me, if we couldnt go into a hostile nation Afghanistan to attack or capture the people who carried out 911 then when ever is war "justfied?" Why not just get rid of the military all together, because if we cant use it to fight against those who attacked us on 911 then we might as well scrap the whole thing because we can never use it.
That is, of course, if you still belive that Al Qaeda were the ones behind 911, which you leave some doubt about in your last post.
If these attackers were representing Afghanistan and attacking us on its behalf, gloves are off. Total war time.
But that's not what happened.
What training did these 9/11 terrorists receive in Afghanistan that trained them for their attack?
First, I'd expect us to bump up our intelligence services to find out exactly who and where all the alledged perpetrators were, bring them in for trial to determine guilt. I'd also find out the motive for such an attack.
What I wouldn't do is invade another country for what might be. Too many innocent people getting killed that way. We have a responsibility as a super power to be damn sure of what we're doing before invading another sovereign nation.
The they might be, could be just isn't a strong enough argument to put at risk our American and Allied soldier's lives.
It'll cost a lot less in dollars and more important innocent lives lost.
Give me a range of lives lost in Afghanistan:
Afghanistan civillians.
Afghanistan combatants.
US soldiers.
Allied Soldiers.
How about the cost $:
We still don't have Bin Laden in custody. I'd say this invasion was an error in judgement.
