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Originally posted by askan:
Ugh.
Isn't that what is happening now in the US?
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth is just going to leave the world with alot of blind, hungry people.
I don't want my country to get dragged into a war (and my pathetic excuse of a leader will be there lapping at George W's feet). I want the US to lead by example. To act with good sense and not get alot of innocent people killed because alot of innocent people were killed.
Is that too much to ask?
Askan
I'm sorry Askan, but like it or not your country is in the war. Every country in the world is "in the war". Because this isn't simply a war between the U.S. and Bin Ladin's organization, or even between the U.S. and Afganistan.
This truly was an attack on the world, despite what our own over zealous superficial press likes to say. The sheer numbers of people involved and the choice of targets and means to destroy them chosen will result in this being on of the most deadly terrorist attacks ever for several nations. Many countries have already listed numerous confirmed dead, and scores of missing among their citizens either in the airplanes or in the buildings.
And even if your country is lucky to avoid losing any of it's people, you must realize, as your leader will no doubt, that it must be stopped or it could happen in your country too.
The people that perpatrated this act do not simply hate Americans. They hate all people different than them. Do you really think that if they could remove every American from the face of the earth tommorow they would stop? No, they would find someone else to hate then, and go after them next.
Also, as far as "carpet bombing" goes. I looked back over the thread and found where I mentioned it. I don't know if I was the first one to use it, or if I was responding to somone else. But I did not mean indiscriminate carpet bombing. I was merely saying that if we have proof that Bin Laden is behind this, and the Afgan government refuses to give him up, then we will have to go in there and get him. Not with a few potshot cruise missle attacks. It will require bobming of training and support facilities. It will require troops on the ground to feret him out of hiding. It will result in the loss of many lives. Americans, Afgans, and others.
If a terrorist organization is hiding next to cilvilian areas, then some innocent lives will be lost. That happens in a war. It is tragic, but it happens.
Geoschmo