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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 10:40 am to Champagne
Nuked al-Qaeda
Not joking
Not joking
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 10:51 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.
Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:54 am to Champagne
1. The operations in Afghanistan should have been purely punitive, no nation building.
2. Once AQ fled into Pakistan the operations into Pakistan should have been punitive as well, not the under the radar stuff we tried to do and are still doing.
3. In relation to Iraq, we should have told Saddam we made a mistake in 1990 and it was time for him to take down the Islamists in Saudi Arabia, the home of the majority of the terrorists and helped him do it.
2. Once AQ fled into Pakistan the operations into Pakistan should have been punitive as well, not the under the radar stuff we tried to do and are still doing.
3. In relation to Iraq, we should have told Saddam we made a mistake in 1990 and it was time for him to take down the Islamists in Saudi Arabia, the home of the majority of the terrorists and helped him do it.
Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:56 am to Champagne
We should have blown up the House of Saud and ended the Federal Reserve.
Posted on 9/10/14 at 11:08 am to Champagne
Nuked Afghanistan for 9/11
Hunt down and kill every living member of the families of the 9/11 attackers, along with Bin Laden's and Al-Zawahiri's.
Nuked Medina, and then publically announce that if one of the adherents of that gutter religion so much as gave a wedgie to an American citizen, Mecca would be next.
Hunt down and kill every living member of the families of the 9/11 attackers, along with Bin Laden's and Al-Zawahiri's.
Nuked Medina, and then publically announce that if one of the adherents of that gutter religion so much as gave a wedgie to an American citizen, Mecca would be next.
Posted on 9/10/14 at 11:31 am to Champagne
I agree with much of what is being said.
Going into Afghanistan was the right thing to do. However, we needed to kick arse and leave. We didn't leave.
Sanctions were crushing Iraq. If we would have kept this going we could have demanded that Saddam do what we wanted. There was no need for an all out war.
I think we should cut off and re-evaluate the money we send to any foreign country.
Frankly, I think the Saudi's need to fricking prove themselves and get involved in being a real ally. If not, frick them.
Going into Afghanistan was the right thing to do. However, we needed to kick arse and leave. We didn't leave.
Sanctions were crushing Iraq. If we would have kept this going we could have demanded that Saddam do what we wanted. There was no need for an all out war.
I think we should cut off and re-evaluate the money we send to any foreign country.
Frankly, I think the Saudi's need to fricking prove themselves and get involved in being a real ally. If not, frick them.
Posted on 9/10/14 at 11:54 am to Champagne
The US should have deposed the Taliban for harboring Al Qaeda and hunted down the Al Qaeda leadership. Bin Laden shouldn't have been killed a couple of years ago, he should have been killed 13 years ago.
Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11 and the toppling of Iraq completely destabilized the region and created a new void for radicals to hide in.
Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11 and the toppling of Iraq completely destabilized the region and created a new void for radicals to hide in.
Posted on 9/10/14 at 11:56 am to Champagne
When we had Osama cornered in Afghanistan, not leave it up to the Northern Alliance to take him out (they of course let him escape) kill him, move our people out of Saudi Arabia (which we did), open up drilling everywhere we can, wean ourselves off the Middle East, GTFO, and no care about Saddam or Afghanistan.
Posted on 9/10/14 at 11:57 am to Champagne
quote:
What should the USA have done after 11 September 2001?
spend tons on beefing up homeland security
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