re: What should the USA have done after 11 September 2001?

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For Iraq...given that he invaded them for no other reason other then he felt like kicking some arse.

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Well, that, and the whole, Saddam was a threat to regional stability (not an agent of it, as widely alleged by Hussein apologists of the American left), evidenced by his not one, but TWO invasions of his neighbors in a 10-year span, and continued assholiness.

The argument that he was contained may have some weight, but that doesn't mean he should have been left with a powerful military, indefinitely. The argument that he turned out not to have the robust WMD program that even he thought he had, much less than every reputable intelligence agency on Earth, thought he had (I guess we should have consulted with aliens), doesn't hold much sway with me.

You want to say we prosecuted the war badly? I agree. You want to say there was no justification for it? You're full of $hit.