Originally posted by Neubob
Only if you fail to completely annihilate your enemy.
And what is the "enemy," apparently to some today it's anyone who they perceive as a threat to the United States. When you have a "War on Terror" anyone can be labeled as a terrorist. It's time we stop using fear mongering against our own people. Since when are we a nation of preemptive war, our founding fathers instructed us not to meddle in foreign affairs, to engage in commerce with nations but not to forge any alliances. Yet today we have become the police force of the world. It's a vicious cycle with no end. We intervene somewhere in the world politically and militarily, certain individuals become enraged at our presence over there, that we are meddling in their affairs. As a result of this it causes certain individuals with radical viewpoints to become empowered as they're a voice of dissent against the United States who is occupying their land (again either militarily or politically).
Let's face it, before we started getting involved in other nations affairs no one was blowing up our buildings. Don't like the truth? Tough. This is the reality we are faced with today. I believe that anyone who did 9/11 or anyone who has ever commited an attack against an American or America should be held accountable, as by attacking Americans they are depriving them of liberty. Bin Laden need to be held accountable for what he did on that day, but Bin Laden is not in Iraq. You don't bring a man to justice by launching a ground war.
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Again I'm not saying that the terrorists are justified, by no means am I saying that. What I am saying is we need to prevent ourselves from making the same mistake twice, and by invading sovereign nations, having a military presence all over the world, and by interfering with the politics of sovereign nations we have generated a lot of hate for our nation. This doesn't mean terrorists are justified in their acts of violence against a nation for what it's done, obviously those who perpetuate violence against a nation and its people are truly evil people, there is no justification for it.