It isn't foolish to clean them up. I though you meant go in there and do wholesale arrests, begin multiple gun battles, send in helicopter gunships, basically blow the shit out of these primal turds.
Get the Shiites to go in and blow them to smithereens, maybe.
These are Saddam's people...
It's nice in theory but a little politically foolish, wouldn't you say?
If most of the Iraqis will support change, then eventualy they will be able to weed out thier own bad seeds.
Very good article on the international state system and how the terrorists are a reaction and threat to it. Further, the states have to neutralize the threat.
Try and read it. Just a few days ago.
I don't think that the general perception is that Clarke's advice would have promoted policy and operations that would have prevented 9/11, but that Bush was fixated on a Iraq role, perhaps due to his animosity to Hussein (a quite rational bias) and his top tier advisors and cabinets officials...
As infantile as Rowenwood's plan is, it is simply peurile and sophmoric, nothing more. WDGann on the other hand is an apologist for the terrorists. He is far worse.
But I never attacked them for releasing the info Maverick. (Nor do my views place me on the "left". There are many on the right who support abortion, many Republicans who do. But this is a different beef)
Nor have I attacked them for not having released information. The panel headed by Kean -...
1) Why do you think most of these guys are not talking?
2) If they are not talking, then everyone knows what they are not saying, which would be any concievable string of sounds.
3) How can you disagree with me that they should not be releasing info when I did not state an opinion as to...
Good. The good people of my country were doing exactly what they should be doing when under siege. Protecting itself.
However, since they have had this fellow for 6-8 months now, it doesn't take a genius to understand why they have leaked the story now, and through an ideologically friendly...
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The very first briefings Bush was given when he took office had to have been about Iraq. That is because U.S. and British aircraft were carrying out constant combat operations over Iraq, patrolling the no-fly zones. These missions had been carried out from the end of Desert Storm -- during the...
Sorting Through the Accusations
March 26, 2004 1921 GMT
Summary
The United States is in the process of picking apart the intelligence and political failures that led up to the attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. on Sept. 11, 2001. This is an unprecedented process. Normally...