We never should have been there more than 12 months.......................
We never should have been there more than 12 months...
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But..but...how could the DC elites make money if we left so quickly? They couldn’t squeeze many profits out of such a short engagement.
IMHO, on 9/12/01, we should have started a bombing campaign that would have made Curtis LeMay blush, and wrapped it up by Christmas that year.
The only presence we should have remaining there in 2021 is the lingering legend of the great terror from the sky, told by crippled, deaf elders to their grandchildren as a cautionary tale.
We should have crushed them all on 9-12-2001.
The night Bush announced the troops were going in (there and elsewhere) at a time of our choosing and all that, I said to my wife “No. this is wrong. Don’t commit troops. visit with bombs, don’t visit with troops.”
Pundits said “you have to have boots on the ground, you can’t rule a large area like that without troops there.”
Who would have said that night that 20 years later the place would revert to civil war just as the day the first soldier went in from the US? I would.
Arabs will have a civil war and fight with infidels every day, every year, forever.
Lebanon, West Bank, Syria, Pakistan and places in Africa. Only the ones defeated resoundingly are quiet.
Our policy should have been “You have terrorist training camps all over the country. we are coming to destroy them. If you build more, we will come back and destroy the new ones + other things you value.”
We never should haven been involved in nation building.