Nice post Sam. And it makes a great argument to stop terrorists now. Which is why we went in Afghanistan and had tremendous world support for that campaign and the campaign against terrorism.
However, it appears to me we have failed getting our number 1 target (bin Laden). Then opened up a second very questionable front. Would we not have done better going after known terrorists and terrorist organizations? Rather than invading a soveriegn nation. Sadam attacked Kuwait in 1991. That war ended in 1992. We cannot use he attacked Kuwait 10 years ago as justification for attacking him now. We handled that problem at the time. Our inability to complete the task at hand and let him off the hook easy does not justify going to war against him again 10 years later just because he still doesn't like us and is still a big meanie. Why didn't Bush Sr. and the rest of the world attmept a regime change in 1992? Could it be that he had a smarter staff, and realized the potential for what has now happened? Sadam did no more to support terrorism than many other countries in the region (Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria, Lebanon, etc..) So why did we have to go into Iraq? Wouldn't we have been better off keeping our eye on the ball and eliminating the Al Queda and it's leadership? Completly removing the Taliban in Afghansitan and creating a self sustaining, democratic government in Afghanistan? We gave up on goals 1 - 3 to go after goal number __ that had little to nothing to do with the overall goals of iradicating terrorism. I've made this argument since before we attacked Iraq. I've yet to get a good answer. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:223152 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
