To: madrussian
American interests, articulated by Bush, are to hunt down the terrorists wherever they are. If they find harbor in Iraq or in Saudi Arabia, that's who the enemy becomes, quite regardless of what the Weekly Standard says, or Buchanan says. Since the terrorist cells are extranational (Osama is Yemeni and grew up in Saudi Arabia, Taliban are Pushtun-Pakistani, some of the perps of 9/11 were Egyptians, Palestinians have a terror network of their own), it is foolish to limit the war to any particular country at the outset.
51 posted on
09/27/2001 10:55:26 AM PDT by
annalex
To: annalex
If they find harbor in Iraq or in Saudi Arabia, that's who the enemy becomes, quite regardless of what the Weekly Standard If you really believe that our reaction to Saudi Arabia harboring terrorists would be the same as it would be to Iraq doing the same, you are extremely naive.
To: annalex
American interests, articulated by Bush, are to hunt down the terrorists wherever they are. If they find harbor in Iraq or in Saudi Arabia, that's who the enemy
And if they have found harbor in, say, Germany, Canada or the Netherlands -- or in the good old USA itself? It seems these were where they spent their most productive periods. What now, bomber boy?
69 posted on
09/27/2001 12:08:38 PM PDT by
Zviadist
To: annalex
American interests, articulated by Bush, are to hunt down the terrorists wherever they are. If they find harbor in Iraq or in Saudi Arabia, that's who the enemy becomes, quite regardless of what the Weekly Standard says, or Buchanan says. Since the terrorist cells are extranational (Osama is Yemeni and grew up in Saudi Arabia, Taliban are Pushtun-Pakistani, some of the perps of 9/11 were Egyptians, Palestinians have a terror network of their own), it is foolish to limit the war to any particular country at the outset. All that is well and good, but the issue here is that the worst war mongers belong to the neocon camp and that their motives are highly suspect due to their record of Israel-first policies. Neocons are the last ones to ask what American foreign policy should be and their opinions are the least trustworthy.
To: annalex
Yeah, let's see if we can turn a fire into a conflagration. Sun Tzu said it's a good idea to create as many allies for your enemy as you possibly can. Or is it the other way around?
166 posted on
09/28/2001 9:54:30 PM PDT by
Pelham
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