"That sounds ominous. So what your saying is anything good for America is good for the world? We decide who gets to do what, where they do it, and how they do it? And anyone who doesn't listen to us gets hit with our big stick? That isn't the kind of America I will feel proud to live in but I do agree it is probably what will happen."
Such are the geo-political, global consequences that result from attacking the mightiest economic and military super-power to have ever existed on this planet.
We were the sleeping giant. Those who don't like their little peasant countries getting kicked around should remember that fact in the future and think "Perhaps it's best not to wake up the Americans again."
I give you Japan and Germany from 1941-1945 as examples. They'll never attack us again, and it wasn't because we "made nice" with them.
Sometimes, the unpleasant use of force is the only language that get's the point across: Don't mess with America.
Such are the geo-political, global consequences that result from attacking the mightiest economic and military super-power to have ever existed on this planet. Don't get me wrong. I'm all for obliterating the group and the leader who were responsible for 9/11 but like I said at the start of this thing, it is going to end up being much more than that. I don't see how one attack by a fringe terrorist group, regardless of how terrible that attack was, gives our government justification to to whatever it pleases. And if it does, I think people need to take a closer look at who benefitted from that terrible attack.