This "war on terrorism" has turned into a war against the Afghan government, which until recently was receiving millions of dollars in U.S. aid. If we were truly serious about going after governments whose countries are the breeding grounds and paymasters for terrorists, why aren't we bombing Saudi Arabia (the center of radical Wahabbism) and Egypt? The terrorists who struck this country were Saudi and Egyptian nationals, not Afghans or Talibans.
This war on terrorism is a fraud. We're not hunting terrorists; we're engaged in nation-building. In other words, we're once again meddling in the domestic affairs of another country and making plenty of enemies in the process.
Our imperial leaders in Washington will never learn. They insist on sticking this nation's collective hand into every hornets' nest from Tel Aviv to Kabul, and then they wonder why we get stung. If the U.S. government is serious about fighting terrorism, it should start by putting an end to its arrogant, bullying foreign policy -- an in-your-face, high-handed attitude that breeds anti-American hatred around the world. We've given a lot of people in the Middle East and now central Asia plenty of reasons to hate our guts. And as we've seen, some of those angry people are driven to suicidal acts of revenge.
If we're serious about getting Osama bin Laden, let's issue letters of Marque (Letters of Reprisal) and post a $1 billion reward for his capture -- dead or alive. Short of committing hundreds of thousands of troops to a ground war, we're not going to flush him and his lieutenants out of their mountain lairs in Afghanistan. Even if we manage to defeat the Taliban (a highly unlikely scenario), we'll merely succeed in replacing one gang of misfits with an even more brutal gang of Northern Alliance thugs and cutthroats who terrorized the populace during its reign of anarchy. The Taliban actually brought stability to the region.
I don't want our young servicemen to die in a nation-building scheme that will pave the way for some bloated multinational petroleum company (Onoco) to run a pipeline across Aghanistan to a port in Karachi, Pakistan. There's more to this "war" than meets the eye.
There had better be was against terrorism. The only problem is it started a few years too late. The one thing I would add is they better start a war of Terrorism right here. There is a Jihad declared against the west, especially America. There are many militants in this country already. They have been meeting and operating right under out law enforcement noses and not taken seriously.
God bless George Bush for doing something now that Clinton, Bush Sr. and Reagan didn't seem to think was such a threat.
See Jihad in America. It does take some time to view the video but it is well worth it.
I just hope we aren't too late.
Perhaps you were absent 9-11 or have been the victim of a DNC/Taliban spin campaign.
If Taliban steals US rations intended for civilians and hides them in Red Cross or Mother Theresa's warehouse, we destroy the Taliban's resources. We gave them every opportunity to hand over Osama. They chose unwisely. Yes, it is complicated. Militant Muslim terrorists joined by the miracle of modern technology, cell phones and laptops with satellite communication can now get their Jihad marching orders and coordinate murder of innocent civilians around the globe...1000 Christians in Nigeria, more in Indonesia, Philippines, Chechnya, Kosovo, Sudan, Kenya, Russia, etc., etc.,...oh, and those murdered 5000 American innocent civilians at the WTC, Pentagon and on flight 93.