It happened once. Why can't it happen again. Not that they haven't tried. I guess you'd have to live here to remember those stories.
I remember the stories. Not a few of the evil ones turned out to be incompetent nobodies, with no "Jihad" connections, egged on by Intelligence sting operations.
What did I say about attacking Iraq? I personally don't agree with going to war with Iraq in the first place. But it did draw extremists in from other areas. Other than that I guess you don't consider Afghanistan a problem with extremism? Or are you gonna spew some imaginary pipeline crap?
We were talking about the military actions of the "War on Terror", of which invading, occupying and destroying Iraq is a major part.
ME: "
There is military action, but it's not a war on terror. It's an aggressive resource war and an industrial gangster enterprise."
YOU: "
What do you call it when you have a whole bunch military actions on terrorists at the same time? think about it..."
And no, I don't consider that Afghanistan was attacked because of a problem with extremism. It was attacked because of a problem with the US maintaining its position as the dominant world power.
It brings the fight to their door.
A pointless excercise as they can and do simply move next door! Afghans aren't terrorists nor are Iraqis.
It instructive that you have swallowed this quaint Bush propaganda whole and uncritically.
It doesn't take much reading to realize you have some agendas and hate.
Your mind-reading attempts are undermined by the preconceptions imposed by your Mickey Mouse "hater" politics.
Please provide concrete evidence that I'm an "America hater"?
While you're at it, please describe my "agendas".
Of course in war there is collateral damage. That number is extremely low compared to any other conflict in history.
Is that the sum total of your reaction to "collateral damage"?
What do you think the "collateral damage" feels about it? The carnage wrought by US air strikes in particular, in addition to the chronic insecurity created by the occupation, has meant that the Afghans now prefer the Taliban, who they hate, to the US, who they hate even more!
On the other hand groups like Al Queda prefer soft targets for maximum psychological damage. They bomb schools, hospitals, pet markets, etc, etc. They use mental patients as human bombs. This stuff is well documented.
Link to the documents, please.
Check out Iraq body count (I think you've linked it before) but this time check out the deaths and body counts of suicide bombings vs deaths resulting from actions by US forces. It's quite lopsided.
Is "quite lopsided" your new definition of "most"?
The US also bombs schools and hospitals (in Fallujah, for example) not to mention journalists in Baghdad.
These 'people' are animals and cowards. They should be found and eradicated.
No these 'people' really are people, just like you and me, human people with hopes and dreams, and they are no more cowardly than people who kill people from airplanes or computer terminals.