06-05-2009, 09:20 PM | #11 |
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Al Qaeda would simply attack us someplace else, in another way. They would still have the means, the motivation, and plenty of opportunities to carry out attacks. This war against the takfiri didn't start with 9-11, that's just when people in this country started actually paying attention to something other than reality TV- for a couple of years, at any rate.
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06-05-2009, 09:48 PM | #13 | |
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All of which is to say that while Hussein's ambitions were no mystery to anyone, it was also fairly well understood what his practical limits were. He was a threat to his own people and his immediate neighbors, but no threat to the larger global community except insofar as threatening his neighbors risked oil supplies (hence why he was smacked down for invading Kuwait). It took some pretty elaborate twisting of the facts, and wholesale invention, to justify a "pre-emptive" war. That would have been even more the case in a world where people were not irrationally afraid of another terrorist attack, but I think not beyond the means or determination of the Bush administration. Quote:
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06-06-2009, 12:24 AM | #15 |
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06-06-2009, 12:54 AM | #16 |
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06-06-2009, 01:06 AM | #17 |
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Maybe if Gore won the elections he would have read the memos and prevented the attacks.
Im more interested in a Gore parallel than in a no 911 parallel that said, I think bush would only have served one term too. |
06-06-2009, 03:59 AM | #18 |
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06-06-2009, 04:02 AM | #19 |
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Despite being an uber-liberal I don't think that would happen. The idea of flying planes into buildings is a no-brainer, and should have been prepared for decades ago. I just don't see Gore as the genious required to see the invisible obvious.
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