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What should the USA have done after 11 September 2001?
Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:27 am
Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:27 am
The consensus is that invading Iraq was the wrong course of action. Perhaps the consensus is that some kind of containment of Saddam Hussein would have proved better for the USA, in the long run.
What should the USA have done, foreign policy-wise, after 9/11?
Is the consensus that deposing the Taliban in Afghanistan WAS the correct decision?
Or, perhaps the USA should not have bothered to depose either Saddam or the Taliban.
What should the USA have done after 9/11?
What should the USA have done, foreign policy-wise, after 9/11?
Is the consensus that deposing the Taliban in Afghanistan WAS the correct decision?
Or, perhaps the USA should not have bothered to depose either Saddam or the Taliban.
What should the USA have done after 9/11?
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Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:28 am to Champagne
Stayed out of Iraq.
Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:30 am to Champagne
Wiped Afghanistan off of the map and NOT used Pakistan to do it.
Told SH that if he even so much as sneezed wrong or impeded UN inspectors his arse was next.
And the most important because their hands were all over it is to have told the House of Saud that it would be a cold day in hell before the US or any of our allies bought another quart of their oil.
Told SH that if he even so much as sneezed wrong or impeded UN inspectors his arse was next.
And the most important because their hands were all over it is to have told the House of Saud that it would be a cold day in hell before the US or any of our allies bought another quart of their oil.
Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:32 am to Champagne
Kill every member of Al Queda and the Taliban.
And that's it.
Sadam's little games were annoying, and nothing else.
And that's it.
Sadam's little games were annoying, and nothing else.
Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:32 am to Champagne
All resources devoted to finding and killing OBL and his team.
Not arbitrarily invade random countries. Switzerland, North Korea, Tanzania, Peru or Iraq for example.
Not arbitrarily invade random countries. Switzerland, North Korea, Tanzania, Peru or Iraq for example.
Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:33 am to Champagne
Drew a redline.
Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:33 am to Champagne
nuked afghanistan and told the rest of the world to freak off
exactly what it did maybe with different ppl in charge of Iraq and definetly should not have broadcast when we were going to pull out.
exactly what it did maybe with different ppl in charge of Iraq and definetly should not have broadcast when we were going to pull out.
Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:37 am to Champagne
quote:
What should the USA have done after 9/11?
Picked up the phone and called Osama.
Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:37 am to Champagne
"Munich", "Nazi Hunters", "Inglorious Basterds" type infiltration/covert ops/assassinations. With drones. Lots and lots and lots of drones.
This post was edited on 9/10/14 at 10:40 am
Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:39 am to TT9
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Stayed out of Iraq.
If you mean: Done everything that we did, except for the invasion of Iraq, then, I say that's a fair and reasonable position that may well be the best answer.
The USA was already suppressing Saddam and working to contain him, so, I assume that you had no problem with those actions.
I'm not going to argue in this thread for any position, because, I want to gather in all clear thinking from others as food for thought for myself.
This post was edited on 9/10/14 at 10:40 am
Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:40 am to SirWinston
#bringbackourtwintowers + mopey, sad face.
Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:40 am to Champagne
Nuked al-Qaeda
Not joking
Not joking
Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:40 am to SirWinston
quote:
Lots and lots and lots of drones.
I don't think we had drones back then, dude.
Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:44 am to Champagne
quote:
Is the consensus that deposing the Taliban in Afghanistan WAS the correct decision?
Yes, unless you are
a) an idiot
b) think we did 9/11
c) both
Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:45 am to a want
quote:
Not arbitrarily invade random countries. Switzerland, North Korea, Tanzania, Peru or Iraq for example.
i must have missed some of these invasions in the evening news
Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:49 am to BayouBlitz
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Kill every member of Al Queda and the Taliban.
He gets it; annihilating the enemy is the only way to win a war
Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:50 am to REG861
Basically, exactly what we did sans Iraq.
Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:51 am to REG861
quote:
What should the USA have done, foreign policy-wise, after 9/11?
pull all foreign aid
Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:51 am to Champagne
GWB: "Yes, this is President George W. Bush calling. I'd like to speak with Mr. 'Mohammit Omar'."
MO: "Speaking."
GWB: "Mr. Omar. I'm really disappointed in having to make this call, but these fellas - 'Usama Bin Laddin' and 'Al Kaydah' have blown up some buildings over here, and I understand they're under your protection. Let me offer you this - turn these fellas over to my people at the Pakistan border in 48 hours. Or else."
MO: "Or else what?"
GWB: "Exactly."
CLICK
MO: "Speaking."
GWB: "Mr. Omar. I'm really disappointed in having to make this call, but these fellas - 'Usama Bin Laddin' and 'Al Kaydah' have blown up some buildings over here, and I understand they're under your protection. Let me offer you this - turn these fellas over to my people at the Pakistan border in 48 hours. Or else."
MO: "Or else what?"
GWB: "Exactly."
CLICK
This post was edited on 9/10/14 at 10:52 am
Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:51 am to Champagne
Despite the gaping wound brought about by objects as benign as boxcutters, they should have had perfect hindsight and divined that, despite a vast majority of various countries' intelligence agencies saying Saddam had WMD and his posturing as if he did, he in fact did not as so many on here with no responsiblity for national security think they should have.
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