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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
It's not. Constantly repeating it is, and putting forth flimsy and discredited evidence for the case, won't make it so.
Or, stated another way, if it was part of the war on terror, it was a tactical error in that war, an error based on both falacious assumptions and bad intelligence.
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You believe that. Unfortunately, the terrorists do not. See Madrid and the press release from AQ since.
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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy I believe the decision to wage war in Iraq is one that will, in the long run, worsen terror, mainly for two very clear reasons: (i) we sacrificed the anti-terror coalition that was put together in Afghanistan; the war represents a massive failure of diplomacy
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Who did we sacrafice? Put another way, who is with us in Afghanistan and not Iraq? France? Germany? The left continues to believe that we have multilateral support there but not in Iraq. This is just bullshit. In both places, we have minimal support from other countries, with the exception of the UK and more recently Pakistan, mainly because most of our "allies" are EU countries that have no real military due to the fact that we protected their asses for 50 years.
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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy we don't have a clear, well understood exit strategy; in the absence of an exit strategy, there is no one but us to deal with Iraqi dissension and strife, so instead of leaving an Iraq with fundamental internal conflicts to work out (shi'ite, sunni, Kurdish), we leave an Iraq with both internal conflicts and external conflicts to work out.
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Where was our exit strategy in Eastern Europe in the mid to late 1990s? Whatever happend to the troops will be home by Christmas? Straw argument.
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