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Busy day at the office ...
On Sat, 8 Apr 2017 13:46:00 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: On 4/8/2017 12:20 PM, wrote: OK you tell me, what would be worse? If we were not prosecuting the air war in Iraq in the 90s, there would not have even been a 9/11 (attack) and if we had simply followed up the defeat of the Soviets in Afghanistan with a minimal level of aid, Bin Laden would not have been there. In fact with no troops in Saudi Arabia, bombing Iraq almost daily, he would not have even had the issue he rose to power on. Always difficult (and dangerous) to speculate but the rise of Islamic extremist religious groups attacking globally dates back to the late 1970's and escalated during the 1980's. Bush 41's liberation of Kuwait certainly was not the cause or beginning. A constant in Bin Laden's complaints about the US was the presence of US troops on Saudi soil and using those bases for bombing other muslims. That is also the rallying call he used when he recruited other Saudis (the majority of the 9\11 attackers) 41's liberation of Kuwait may have received good reviews from Islam but he was warned not to go to Baghdad and yet he continued to wage war with Saddam for a decade for dubious reasons and eventually we did go to Baghdad as a logical conclusion to the 10 year war we waged. Nothing improved from the end of the 100 hour war until today ... 2 trillion dollars and 6000 GI lives later. |
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