Sinergy -> RE: Defining Victory in Iraq (1/4/2008 9:21:25 PM)
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ORIGINAL: luckydog1 Agruing a direct cause would be nonsense. But the half hearted attack on Afghanistan, probably mattered. I gave a lot of articles, not just ones in Rolling Stone. And while you so cavalierly dismiss the Afghanistan attacks, the US military did come away with the Al Qaeda computers containing contact information, bank information, etc., etc., which allowed regular police work to almost completely neutralize Al Qaeda. Afghanistan had a purpose. That purpose was done and taken care of years ago, yet we are still there. Iraq had no purpose. To recap: Afghanistan was important. Afghanistan was important because it allowed the United States and our allies to completely neutralize and prevent future threats from Al Qaeda using good old fashioned police work. Iraq was not important. Furthermore, Iraq was not only not-important but it completely destabilized the tenuous balance of power in the Middle East, and was promoted by the boogey man of Weapons of Mass Destruction that either did not exist or were so old they would no longer work. Having successfully screwed the pooch there, the administration wants to fail forward into Iran. Feel free to respond back, but my point about police work being what could be used to solve the problem of terrorism still stands. Sinergy
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