re: #135 MikeySDCA

Begging your pardon, but we got into A-stan over 9-11.

And we abandoned it over Iraq.

sad thing is that I wanted to support the war in Iraq. Hussein and Uday and Kusai needed to get taken out. Anyone who uses rape rooms as a means to control their populace needs to get taken out.

But Afghanistan was and should have remained priority 1 because that was where our national security was at risk and that was where plots that killed almost 5k Americans were hatched.

Afghanistan is priority 1.

In my dream world, Saudi Arabia and it’s vile and repressive (but very American friendly and thoroghly ass-kissed oil-rich regime) needs to go, and stat. While we’re at it, we should look at Pakistan, because they aren’t as friendly to us as they pretend to be on the surface (or at least, the civilian government may be, but I bet that the military would be just as happy to nuke Bombay and call it a day.)

Iran needs our support to work its stuff out, but I think direct intervention would hurt the cause more than help right now.

Iraq was on the list for humanitarian reasons, but in terms of national security, it shouldn’t have diverted us from Afghanistan and the actual war against the Taliban.

I was initially a big Bush supporter, especially post 9-11, but as a New Yorker and an American, Bush lost me when he diverted from the war against the actual Taliban to the war against the pretend Taliban.