[ouroboros]

The problem with your (and Pat's) assessment is that taking out bin Laden and the Taliban is a band-aid.

It isn't our responsibility to perform invasive surgery on the world.

We need to erase those people (and ONLY those people) who dared to murder Americans on American soil and then extricate ourselves from the whole business as quickly as possible.

[sinkspur]

We need to erase those people (and ONLY those people) who dared to murder Americans on American soil and then extricate ourselves from the whole business as quickly as possible.

Those people may have been supported by Hussein, which means there'll be more terrorism shortly. And nukes.

We're going to be in the Gulf for a good long while, my friend. You may as well get used to it.

[Scholastic]

Bump

[Gee Wally]

We need to erase those people (and ONLY those people) who dared to murder Americans on American soil and then extricate ourselves from the whole business as quickly as possible.

So I take it we could have ended the war in the Pacific after the battle of Midway in June, 1942, when the bulk of the carriers and pilots who participated in the Pearl Harbor attack were destroyed. We could have then extricated ourselves from the whole bloody business.

[Proud2BAmerican]

We need to erase those people (and ONLY those people) who dared to murder Americans on American soil and then extricate ourselves from the whole business as quickly as possible.

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And I think we should continue to maintain a robust foreign intelligence community to monitor these lands to make sure no other terrorists train and prepare for future attacks against the U.S. soil, with the warning to all countries that we will take pre-emptive action if we find out about terrorists with the potential to harm American citizens training in their lands. This, I believe, would encourage those countries to police themselves.