Really? Because I am not only one of those surviving family members, but also a survivor and rescue/recovery worker. Had we not funded the Mujhadeen and armed and trained what became AQ, there wouldn’t have been a 9/11. I went to over 100 funerals after 9/11 and many more for friends and kids of friends who came back in boxes from our fuck up in Iraq. So you can tell me to “go piss up a rope” a million times, I don’t give a shit. But I sure as hell don’t want my Marine or his buddies, laying dead in a Syrian city to make it easier on ISIS.
1. Sincerely sorry for your loss.
2. The reality in life is that sometimes you have to play “the enemy of my enemy...” as much as it usually ends up burning your ass.
3. Had President Clinton done his job, and not wimped out for the possibility of killing “non-combatants,” OBL would have been dead before he got the chance to carry out the attacks.
4. Nobody said anything about committing ground forces to take out Assad.
Oh - and point 5 ...
Had our “intelligence” services and “leaders” not had their heads buried deep up their asses, we might have never experienced an attack like 9/11.