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

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But hey, I guess 4000 American lives and countless non-combatant Iraqi lives were well worth it so W could thump his chest and say he kicked someone's arse.

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War is never worth it, unless you win.

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There was no justification whatsoever to invade.

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We just disagree. Any outlaw in charge of an agressive, large military force is subject to removal at international discretion.

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Further, it took us off mission to deal with those people who actually had a hand in 9/11 and likely delayed us catching and kill OBL for years.

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Again, I agree with the way we prosecuted both wars - I'm not defending the generals and the "nation building" that somehow crept into our mission package during the 1990s and eventually replace warfighting as our primary function. I bitched about then (nobody listens to lieutenants/captains), during the Balkans and I continued to bitch about it until the present (nobody listens to majors/lieutenant colonels).

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You are a smart guy Ace, you well know this.

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I know stuff you cannot possibly imagine, brah.