I guess we were being unfair to those helpless terrorists.
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I think Bush has their number better than this guy--I'm sure many of the Afghans are saying "Good riddance!" as they pull out their TV sets and listen to music again....
-penny
No, you wouldn't. You live for it. It's your reason for being.
With victory now in the bag, omnipotent America can finally look forward to a return to life as normal after successfully dispensing its brand of instant justice.
He don't know us vewwy well, do he?
Far from ending terrorism, "Operation Enduring Freedom" might well spawn more terrorism against the US. By launching a military campaign against Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, instead of taking the judicial route, the US and Britain may well have created more dangerous enemies. The campaign of the past few weeks, which saw hi-tech American bombs falling on people's homes, schools, hospitals and even a Red Cross facility, have gone a long way to further hardening attitudes to the US.
Oh, if we took the 'judicial' route, there would be no opportunities for things like, hmmmmmmm, maybe hostage taking? "Free bin Laden or we'll kill these schoolchildren on this bus!" But, then again, you've thought these things through. In fact, you're the only one who's thought any of this through, while only the Bush administration never, ever, looks before it leaps. Where would we be without your sage advice? As far as civilian deaths and the bombing of the Red Cross warehouse, are you implying that those events are likely to put otherwise peaceloving people over the top of madness and make terrorists out of non-terrorists? Who's being naive here? People who want to kill us don't need an excuse like that to want to kill us.
It would be nice if one example of this had EVER worked in human history. Life just doesn't work that way. I agree that these people didn't need an excuse to hate and attack us.
I WANT THEM TO FEAR US. I WANT NO COUNTRY TO FEEL SAFE IF THEY HARBOUR THEM.
That will result in the domestic security that our government owes us all under its constitutional charter.
Excellent post. But watch out: The America-can-do-no-wrong warmongers who inhabit this forum rarely allow reason to interfere with their "patriotic" harangues. (I'm still trying to figure out how they equate patriotism with the bombardment of innocent civilians.)
The author of this article is correct: Our bombs have merely exascerbated anti-American hatred in the Muslim world. Bombs blowing up things (including innocent families) may satisfy our collective lust for revenge, but they do little to address the root causes of terrorism.
If the United States government is truly interested in fighting terrorism, it needs to start with a candid reappraisal of its own foreign policy.
- Un-PC
Typical. Our current generation of European and American journalists have all failed us. They spend more time pushing their own failed ideologies than they do researching and reporting facts. Since when did Talibandits fleeing Kabul cause more terrorists to want to cross the Pakistani border to join up with them to make a larger force against us?
In fact, the freaks aren't even managing feeble pro-Taliban demonstrations in Pakistan anymore. Gosh, I guess punching the bully really does shut him up, whereas Euro-style appeasement (ala Chamberlain) doesn't quite have such an enviable track record of success...
Well, you can depend on the America-haters for one thing - from now on anything that goes wrong anywhere in Afghanistan will be blamed on the U.S. - if we'd just left those wonderful, devout Taliban lads alone, why the whole place would be the land of milk and honey. Etc, etc, etc...it never changes.
Bugger Off!
That's almost word for word how I predicted a few days ago the media would spin this after over a month of telling us how unwinnable this war was.
This is the heart of the message, skillfully woven into a fabric of phony moral concern.
A certain recipe for cultural extinction.
And of course, an expected propaganda tool from the enemy or its supporters.
I see this from our own here at home. Those with no sense of history or the way the world outside their little insulated universes.
Those living with their mothers; those never having been faced with not knowing if they would survive the week; those who take their rights for granted and never having to even remotely consider that there are obligations inseparably attached.
Dealing with mindless violence with anything other than mindless violence is an option only for individuals.
For entire societies who must order their own to die in order to maintain the "others" safe, there is something ugly about the tendency to think that "making nice" with animals for the sake of "feeling good" is an option.
Bring 'em on, we'll defeat them too. I see Khadaffy's kid is rattling sabers now... Libya hasn't had a good bombing in a while.
I guess we were being unfair to those helpless terrorists.
Please copy, email, print, send to any and every American you care to. Never forget.
GO STRAIGHT TO HELL