Accountability
2973 people were killed in the 9/11 attacks, which caused an estimated $83 billion in both direct and indirect costs.
America launched a full blown war against the Afghani Taliban in direct response.
As of today 2816 Americans have been killed in Iraq, a war of aggression based on cherry-picked "intel", and at least $6.8 billion/per month in American taxpayer dollars (current estimated tally is $335 billion) is being spent so that the Iraqi Prime Minister can order American forces around.
What ought America's response be?
4 Comments:
The GOP definition of accountability is: "blame it on Clinton".
America's response should be:salaam aleikum and bye-bye.
Afghanistan was a reasonable response, and wouldn't be devolving if we hadn't half-assed it and trotted off to Iraq before the job was done.
Iraq has nothing to do with the war on terror. They never supported any terrorists who attacked us. The only argument (from a national-defense perspective) that almost makes sense is that Saddam reimbursed palestinian suicide bombers... who shared the same METHOD as the people who attacked us. The whole "war on muslim extremists" doesn't hold any water in light of Iraq being a SECULAR country before we fucked it up.
So it would seem we really are fighting a war on a tactic.... (which makes as much sense as fighting a war on sneak attacks, or a war on some other nebulous thing that one could accuse almost any nation of supporting.
Oh, but wait... their is a common thread to the nations that we threaten most, it's not fundamentalism, it's not terror. It's Oil and Oil transporatation needs.
So don't think of Iraq as our response to 9/11. Only the rubes think that. 9/11 was the mental conditioner that allowed the president to lead us into the stupidity that is the war in Iraq.
free thinker, I've definitely got your back on that one. I concur heartily.
The damn shame of it all is that instead of one success (Afghanistan) and one clusterfuck (Iraq), it appears that we're going to end up with two clusterfucks.
If only those Afhanis had some oil...
Jim's solution works for me. Time to cut our losses and redirect those billions of taxpayer dollars to something that actually helps us rather than makes things worse as Iraq has.
Things could have been different in Iraq, even with it being an incredibly stupid idea to begin with. But, BushCo allowed the insurgency/civil war to get a head of steam and I really don't see anything that would lead me to believe that our current government is capable of, much less willing to, put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
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