Yep. The Iraq adventure has made us a lot safer. And where IS Osama, by the way?
Couldn't find anything on Pravda?
Where is Osama?
Dead.
How are attacks in Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Morocco signs of anti-US sentiment? Sounds more like anti-Saudi, anti-Turkey, and anti-Morocco sentiment.
9-11, embassy bombings, USS Cole, and '93 WTC bombing showed anti-American sentiment, and that was before the war on terror began.
He's DEAD, Jim ...
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Actually, I think it has.
- The presence of the US military in Saudi Arabia angered OBL so much that in 1996 he declared war on us because of it. That military presence was removed right after Saddam Hussein was captured.
- Iran agreed to inspections of its nuclear facilities.
- A scientist in Pakistan was exposed for selling its nuclear secrets.
- Pakistan and India came close to a nuclear war. They are now talking.
- Libya has agreed to give up its WMDs.
The IISS pointed to the Soviet Union as a bunch of nice guys and Ronald Reagan as a warmongering nutcase in the 80s, IIRC.
Check the pattern: In 2001 Al-Qaida delivered a kiloton of combat power into Lower Manhattan and killed 3,000 American noncombatants in 90 minutes. In 2004, the only noncombatants they're able to hit are Muslims and contractors who volunteered to go to a war zone thousands of miles removed from the homeland.
Bottom line: IISS is full of crap, and if you've been a freeper since '98, you should have been able to figure that out.
Perhaps you should change your handle to "Neville Chamberlain Buff"
Yeah. They never would have bothered us if we hadn't done that whole pesky Iraq War thing! /sarcasm