Oh, The Mistakes We Made- Declaring War After 9/11 Was Mistake!

Real Clear Politics ^ | 10/1/06 | Richard Reeves

[Mr. Brightside]

We will never forget.

[CWOJackson]

This clown sounds like pat buchanan on a bad day.

[flynmudd]

This person seems to have forgotten that the terrorists declared war on us before we took the fight to them.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

OK...where was the barf alert?

[armymarinemom]

Makes me even more uncomfortable with Fox.
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[kcvl]

Richard Reeves

[okie01]

Actually, 9/11 was mass murder, and it should have been treated as mainly a challenge for the police and intelligence services.

So, Mr. Reeves, we should've simply filed a request for extradition of bin Laden with the Taliban...and that would've solved the whole problem?

Well, silly us. Why didn't we see that at the time?

[Sender]

In this same latest TIME edition, all of the letters to the editor were American-bashing, lamenting-the-squandering-of-goodwill whine fests from foreign readers. One opined that if we had just given lots more money to prop up Islamic economies, it would have been much better than to use violence. Another lectured about US arrogance and of course Muslims would be mad at us. Some American whiner waxed rhapsodic about "what our country could have become, 5 years after 9/11" if only we had become pacifist appeasers.

I guess we can see who reads TIME, and where they live. Rome, Brussels, Switzerland etc.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

"...British historian, Niall Ferguson..."

Asswipe, moron, scumbag, lowlife, idiot, cretin, dirtbag, terrorist-lover, socialist, scumbag, pig-humper, terrorist-sympathizer etc etc etc. Get f*cked, punk. Show us your *teeth*.

[gcruse]

No, Richard, we did not declare war on Islam. Bush bent over so far backwards to kiss Islamic yurt that an emboldened Islam decided to declare war on the soft infidels.

Our declaring war wasn't the problem. The failure to actually wage one that involved sacrifice beyond the price of gasoline was the mistake.

[eddie willers]

Kipling would shoot him for putting a passage of his into this cut and run article.

The Dane-Geld

It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation

To call upon a neighbour and to say:--

"We invaded you last night--we are quite prepared to fight,

Unless you pay us cash to go away."

And that is called asking for Dane-geld,

And the people who ask it explain

That you've only to pay 'em the Dane-geld

And then you'll get rid of the Dane!

It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation,

To puff and look important and to say:--

"Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.

We will therefore pay you cash to go away."

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;

But we've proved it again and again,

That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld

You never get rid of the Dane.

It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,

For fear they should succumb and go astray;

So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,

You will find it better policy to say:--

"We never pay any-one Dane-geld,

Nor matter how trifling the cost;

For the end of that game is oppression and shame,

And the nation that plays it is lost!"

[G8 Diplomat]

Declaring war after THIS was a MISTAKE?!

More liberal BS. If we didn't go to war and get rid of the terrorists this would be happening again

[dead]

Islam declared war on western civilization decades ago, and idiots like Ferguson and Reeves still think that we can give them an economic hug and make them love us.

[TASMANIANRED]

The fool wants us all to submit without objection.

[eddie willers]

Ferguson is great!

His part of the quote is 'No question, 9/11 was an act of war,' ....the rest of the sentence is from the lefty numbnut quoting him.

[raybbr]

Who wrote that?

[eddie willers]

idiots like Ferguson

Read my post #15 above.

Ferguson is on OUR side.

Just a very poorly constructed sentence.

[Kakaze]

" Our declaring war wasn't the problem. The failure to actually wage one that involved sacrifice beyond the price of gasoline was the mistake "

Damn Straight!

[kingu]

So, Mr. Reeves, we should've simply filed a request for extradition of bin Laden with the Taliban...and that would've solved the whole problem?

Well, silly us. Why didn't we see that at the time?

We did. Strangely enough, they weren't willing, then were, then lost the country.

But let's give Mr. Reeves' plan the benefit of the doubt. What would have happened had we treated 9/11 as a police investigation.. Oh, dang it, we did, and really, still are.

But really, his point is that we've declared war on Islam, which is why we're blowing Indonesia to piece.. Oh, we aren't. Well, we're treating every other Muslim nation as our enemy.. Well, no, we're not doing that either. Afghanistan, we helped cause a revolution to overthrow the Taliban but didn't remove the Islamic form of government. And Iraq was anything but an Islamic nation, probably the most secular population in the middle east.

Actually, the entire rewriting of history by the liberals to imply certain actions falls apart with the slightest glance at what's happening. Whoops. Seems like it's just like all those 'plans' that liberals have that they talk about but never explain...

The real truth here is that they try to spin everything into a holy war, just like the Islamofacists try to do the same thing. The liberals want this to be a war about religion. It's not.

[Paulus Invictus]

No, this idiot sounds just like Clinton who did treat all terrorists as simple criminals, and sent the FBI looking for them in vain. He certainly stopped our spy agencies from sharing information about terrorists. I think he would have done the same had he been in charge on 9/11 and the terrorists would have attacked us again and again.