I think history will show that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor did much more damage to our primary tool for fighting a war. Our military force. The Tet offensive was also fairly effective and was directly against our military forces. Its true that the attack on the World Trade Center was more horrific and more devious due to the surprise attack on civilians, but look at what the US militray force still has available to fight with. Saddams attacks were the kind that one would expect from a future thinking enemy that was fighting a very long war. Not the kind of attack someone living on the borrowed time of a cease fire agreement should have undertaken. So in an attempt to get his jollies off, he has succeded in the destruction of the Taliban, the all out war against Al Queda and his eventual complete and utter demise. I guess its possible that he is that stupid.
The deterrent part is just about getting away with it.
Where is he going ? He is trapped inside a bunker surrounded by enemies.
No, it's the kind of attack you'd expect from somebody who has very good back-end security.
Not the kind of attack someone living on the borrowed time of a cease fire agreement should have undertaken.
What is the evidence that Saddam is living on borrowed time? So far, all I see is a lot of saber rattling, combined with a lot of begging that Saddam take a luxurious exile. Saddam successfully blackmailed us with his anthrax in 1991, and he's still here, twelve years later, now with the most spectacular attack in human history under his belt. It seems you are in denial. But then the whole country is in denial -- just as it was in 1991, when our leadership came up with a bunch of lame cover stories to paper over the fact they had been intimidated by a Third World power, and we bought it.
So in an attempt to get his jollies off, he has succeded in the destruction of the Taliban,
Like Saddam could care less.
the all out war against Al Queda
Like Saddam could care less.
and his eventual complete and utter demise.
Assumes facts not in evidence. Last I heard, Rummy was practically begging Saddam to take a life of luxurious exile with a 24-hour security guard for life. That's pretty good going for somebody who murdered 3,000 Americans and inflicted $200 billion damage on the US economy in one morning while the whole world watched on TV, wouldn't you say?