Our country has turned into a bunch of pansies. We should have leveled this place, literally. I am so disappointed. This only encourages the Islamic freaks of the world into trying bolder things like killing Americans on American soil. This only reinforces their perception that if they put up a fight, the Great Satan will run and hide (i.e., Lebanon, Somalia, Vietnam). I'm beginning to wonder if they are right.
We should have done a Grozny on this place and made their children's children remember the sound of American firepower. This will bite us in the ass.
We should have done a Grozny on this place and made their children's children remember the sound of American firepower. This will bite us in the ass.
You could add the 1991 retreat from Iraq. Saddam Hussein felt enboldened. We did not have a coalition agree to us toppling Saddam at that time (only pushing him out of Kuwait). Saddam never did follow the UN resolutions and some of the weaponry he used in 2003 was prohibited.