[hchutch]

An excellent point.

After 9/11, they had to assume the worst. The tone I heard was, "We're not going to wait and see what nasty surprise happens. We know who sponsors terrorism, we know who is trying to get weapons of mass destruction, we know who is doing both of those things, and we're going to ACT."

[stevem99]

We know who sponsors terrorism, we know who is trying to get weapons of mass destruction... Actually, our "allies" seem to be the ones sponsoring terrorism. Saudi is a pretty clear case that has been beaten to death, but who supplied North Korea with a lot of their nuke technology? Why our good friends Pakistan.