[habs4ever]

Why? No we don't.This isn't a question of legalese, where a case 'has to be made".That is outdated, Cold War containment thinking that enabled Clinton to do nadda about Osama and Iraq under the guise that its far, far away and will never affect US interests.Until a plane smashes into a skyscraper.

Containment is folly in a world of asymmetric threats.It is an invitation to those that want to kill you to take their best shot, and even that may not be enough motivation for some, to strike back.This relic of failed strategists and diplomats will never bring peace, so the idea that "evidence" to make such a case is needed beyond what you know already about Iraq and its links to terror groups,is but a sop to a mindset of appeasement and wishful thinking that once made fighting the Soviet threat a difficult proposition.Containment is for those who lack the will to defend themselves.It is so Sept 10,2001.

[TheDon]

"Containment is folly in a world of asymmetric threats."

Well said. It cannot be emphasized enough.

[steveegg]

Couldn't say it better myself.

[El Gato]

Containment is for those who lack the will to defend themselves.

I would say that containment is for those who value their own skins more than their ambitions. If someone doesn't care much about their own skin, or has "plausibly deniable" allies or lackeys who don't care about theirs, then containment will and has failed.

[happygrl]

...the idea that "evidence" to make such a case is needed beyond what you know already about Iraq and its links to terror groups,is but a sop to a mindset of appeasement and wishful thinking that once made fighting the Soviet threat a difficult proposition.

Here here!