apologies for the long wait for my reply.
work today was hell.
Eric, '...then we betrayed him'?????? How so?
We betrayed him in that we used he and a lot of people as pawns in Afghanistan to fight a war with the Soviet Union and when they won their independence and established their government we began sanctioning them and actively trying to overthrow them because there new government was isolationistic. If someone wants to be left alone we should leave them alone and not try to subvert them.
Cinicinnatus,
Nonsense.
That's a lot of left-wing hyperbole.
But if you like to repeat it, enjoy.
Hyperbole is A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton.
This is a fact and don't try to cloud the issue with name calling. I lean farther to the right than almost anyone you are likely to meet.
the important thing to remember..."
Why is this the important thing to remember, anyway?
I'd think that the important thing to remember would be that he planned and organized an assault on the United States, killing our fellow citizens and friends.
I agree we must never forget September 11th but we must also not fool ourselves into thinking we live in a bubble and our foreign polices will not come back to haunt us.
we must make good political decisions in the future to prevent terrorist from attacking again. How you say? First we don't take a viscous animal like Osama and train him to harass our neighbors and then when he has run our neighbors out of “town” we donut just turn him loose on the street so he can kill our children. When we are done with a viscous animal we must kill them. second we don't actively try to kill leaders of foreign governments because they won't play our game.
Stating that it is "the important thing to remember" seems to me, to be an expression of understanding, or sympathy with that terrorist.
do I sympathize with terrorists? HELL NO!!!.
do I wish everyone would leave me alone, give me liberty and am I willing to kill to keep and hold my liberty. HELL YES.
would I fault anyone for doing the same? no.
so there you have it. America should not be isolationist and we should not destroy governments for our political and economic gain.