Kate wrote: > I don't think peace was ever really given a chance. I cringed the moment > that ultimatum of turning over bin laden was declared. I am sure the > president felt he needed to appease people who wanted to see bin laden pay.
Bin Laden and his group have been bombing us since at least 1993. What do you think the U.S. government should have done in the11 years of his terrorist acts against us prior to Sept. 11th? 11 years before we demanded that he be turned over and backed it up with real military force. 11 years of knowing his concerted and ongoing plans of destruction and death against the U.S. 11 years of pur our highest government officials and intelligence agencies knowing his "cells" were operating all over the world and within our very country and what did we do? 11 years to address the reasons why some people hate us so much and to implement a "Marshall Plan." And now you call the president's actions "appeasement?" > But I imagine the US US citizens would have supported him saying, we are > going to try & get bin laden but we are going to do it a different way. And > then gone about enacting the plan that has already been suggested here by > Fred. >From the looks of our current operation, we have enacted a type of Marshall Plan by increasing our aid to Afghanistan by hundreds of millions (over and above the hundreds of millions we have already sent to them prior to 9/11). I have not seen anything where it indicates that the population centers there are all living on top of 20,000,000 landmines. The airdrops of food have been largely successful according to all mainstream media reports, both international and domestic. The only complaints I've heard is that a couple people would like a different choice of menu and that they need much more food before winter sets in. It's an ongoing effort concurrent with the war on Bin Laden and the Taliban. From the beginning I've heard many reports that our government intends to do everything possible to help stabilize the country after this is resolved. What we are doing may not pan out in a perfect way, but at least we are doing something to resolve problems on all fronts in the country after 11 years. Kakki
