Bernard farquart
Maintaining the no-fly zone (which was never sanctioned by the UN or in the cease fire agreement) would have sufficed. Besides, why is the will of the Kurdish people in Iraq more important than their will in Syria or Turkey?
Both are equally culpable, though I'd be inclined to think that our government's culpability increased after the local atbreastude became more apparent.
Unfortunately, the target has been destroyed. I'd rather not be a target in the first place.
To put it in terms of driving, would one rather be a lane blocker and endure the tailgating and flashing lights of people behind them, or should they move right and not be a target in the first place?
What if a driving extremist actually ran a LLB off the road? Perhaps had that driver not been blocking the left lane, he wouldn't have been the victim of an irrational driver.
Our military wasn't there to defend against Bin Laden and his group. Whatever we were defending against had not actually taken any offensive action against us. It has been shown that we were really defending against what turned out to be a figment of our government's imagination.
Why was it our place to second guess the 99.x% popularity rating the Saddam had prior to the war? People who decide what's in our geopolitical interests really need to learn that our interests aren't the only one's to be considered.
I don't believe for a second that it was in our "interest" to set up a military base in a land where the local population had hostile atbreastudes to foreigners.
I thought we were talking about Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
I never stated that he was a folk hero. I am saying that his view on the situation wasn't out of line with the rest of the population. His actions, of course, were out of line.
Real-politik breeds terrorism. Then again, the line between terrorism and wars launched in the name of "real-politik" really doesn't exist.
