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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
Ya know, for this offensive thingy to work, we gotta be attacking somebody.
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I hear you loud and clear. You make a fine point - why not Iraq? We had to start somewhere and it was in the middle of everything and an easily winnable war. But when you attack a third party on a comically bad pretext, you cede the necessary moral authority behind the pre-emption. You need the moral authority here. We had it in Afghanistan, we had it in Pakistan. We could have pressed Musharraf to let us into the provinces and run roughshod through the whole place, taking out madrases left and right, really making an impact on the brand of Islam we're up against. Instead we're in Iraq, one of the few places where a secular dictator did not allow radical Islam to flourish. The war should out in the desert in Afghanistan and Pakistan, further from Israel and the Middle East. Instead, we've moved it right next door to Israel and put it next to Saudi Arabia, the biggest source of militant islam in the world.
