Well at least they were kind enough to include the Taliban for hiding amongst them when they started placing blame. However, they aren't handing Taliban/Al-Qaeda members over as quickly as they should. If we have no reason to believe that they are hiding amongst the civilian population, then we have no reason to drop bombs or run a raid against them.
Perhaps they would have liked it more when a good portion of the American public wanted to drop nuclear weapons on Afghanistan right after 9/11 like I did. At least had I been President, I would have given the Taliban 12 hours to hand over Bin Laden and his thugs or point them out to us, or THEN they get a nuke dropped on them.
Sure it would have killed thousands of innocent people, but I was angry enough at the time where I didn't care. Had we done it, I don't know if I would have cared to this day. You can bet if we had, Iraq and Iran and North Korea would have a COMPLETELY different outlook towards the United States. In the back of their minds they would be thinking "America isn't fucking around anymore, maybe we should cut the bullshit".
But that was then and this is now. The United States does more to avoid civilian casualties then any other nation on earth. What do you suppose the reaction would be if we took a scorched earth policy?
I'm not saying that a civilian death doesn't mean anything. We take as much care as possible to insure that that doesn't happen, but unfortunately, this is war and in war, bad things happen.
Travis
travis@rightwinglunatic.com
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