Quote:
Adder
Invading Iraq prevented terrorist attacks even before we invaded? Interesting.
|
No, that would have been the Afghanistan invasion which half your camp likes to remember or forget, depending on the context
Quote:
|
And really, honestly, you think invading Iraq has prevented terrorist attacks? Exactly how?
|
So far, the proof is in the pudding. Why don't you tell me how it hasn't?
Quote:
|
And you do know that during that period, there have been numerous successful terrorist attacks against other nations, right?
|
There have successful attacks in Israel every year as long as you have been alive. Have these made you feel any less safe here? I thought we talking about homeland security.
Quote:
|
And that in the last fifteen years (at least), there have been exactly two successful attacks by foriegn terrorists in the U.S.?
|
Well, we did absolutely nothing after WTC 1 back on Clinton's watch - you see how successful that turned out. Perhaps a new strategy was warranted.
Quote:
|
What possible reason is there to conclude that three years without an attack says anything at all about our ability to prevent attacks? (btw.. we are both obviously leaving the anthrax attacks out of this discussion)
|
Perhaps a lot - perhaps nothing. But again, I remind you, sitting by idly did nothing but let them sow the seeds for bigger ideas.
Quote:
|
I think that this is naive, and short sighted, as hell.
|
So was letting Islamicist aggression go on unchecked since WTC 1.
