If the Federal government -- even during the Bush Administration -- took the WOT and "protecting America" as seriously as you take it, don't you think that they would have made some move to secure our borders? Don't you think that they would have severely limited even legal immigration from Islamic countries who were known to have links to terror?
Pony up, rb.
"Should we be in Afghanistan?"
Now, no -- because we should have declared war and scorched earth Afghanistan eight years ago.
You don't go to war without a set of objectives and a plan on how to meet them in some reasonable period of time. Instead, we have been in Afghanistan more than twice as long as it took to change the entire world order during WWII -- and we still don't know when our troops are coming home as now the Afghanistan war bleeds into Pakistan. That's BS.
Afghanistan should have been our one and only focus, not Iraq. Instead GWB used 9/11 as an excuse to do what he had been wanting to do for years, invade Iraq..
We had every reason to take down Saddam in 1990 in the first Gulf war, but GHB didn't have the balls.
“You never answered my questions:
If the Federal government — even during the Bush Administration — took the WOT and “protecting America” as seriously as you take it, don’t you think that they would have made some move to secure our borders? Don’t you think that they would have severely limited even legal immigration from Islamic countries who were known to have links to terror? “”
Both Democrat and Republican Parties have failed to protect our borders, one Party is catering to simple votes and politics in the future and the other Party is catering to business interests for cheap labor.
However that is a stronger issue for Democrats due to the power of future votes. That is just one aspect of national security.
How does this prove your point that we should adopt appeasement in relation to terrorists? It doesn’t. Because our security isn’t being maximized, we should just give up, concede and appease because it’s not perfect? Try to make a better point.