Thursday, September 24, 2009
More than right
Taking note of this week's arrest of Afghanis in Denver who were building a large set of bombs.
Back in Feb 2007 I wrote:
I was right but not harsh enough. Our pointless war in Afghanistan has clearly NOT prevented these particular "turrists" from "following us home." In fact our pointless war in Afghanistan is the REASON why these particular "turrists" came to America to bomb us.... and they were trained and funded in our main enemy Pakistan which is "our valued ally" according to both Bush and Obama. ¶ 10:09 AM
Back in Feb 2007 I wrote:
[Bush] is still using the same logic, even after it's been shown invalid.
Specifically:
"If we fail over there, the turrists will follow us home."
Think about this for a minute. How will they do this? Several thousand Sunni and Shiite warriors will not be able to infiltrate easily into American life. These guys are not the elite Westernized types that performed 9/11. If they do attack en masse by some method, it means we are not doing the basic job of controlling our ports and borders.
"9/11 happened because Afghanistan was a failed state."
Afghanistan was part of the story, but most of the training and planning for 9/11 happened in Germany and in Florida. There are always failed states around the world; Somalia and Sudan are both failed states that serve al-Qaeda well, and we haven't done anything to eliminate them. Eliminating failed states is neither necessary nor sufficient to protect OUR people from Mohammedans and Arabs.
I was right but not harsh enough. Our pointless war in Afghanistan has clearly NOT prevented these particular "turrists" from "following us home." In fact our pointless war in Afghanistan is the REASON why these particular "turrists" came to America to bomb us.... and they were trained and funded in our main enemy Pakistan which is "our valued ally" according to both Bush and Obama. ¶ 10:09 AM
