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Slight adjustments to Shawn's comment
- Admitting you're wrong and changing direction to remedy the error is a sign of strength. But changing direction needlessly when succeeding - as in 100+ terrorists killed, 700+ captured and 30+ arms caches seized based on intelligence gathered in Zarqawi's hideout - is folly.
- Osama bin Hidin most certainly did launch the September 11 attacks in part because of America's percieved weakness and sqeamishness post-Mogadishu. See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1651076/posts
posted by
WriterofLight
on June 20, 2006 at 8:17 PM
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Slight adjustment to FW's comment
If Bubba had done his job by taking custody of him when offered and/or by striking back with Bushian force in response to previous attacks and/or not allowing the infamous "Gorelick Wall" that prevented law enforcement and intelligence communities from sharing information to be built, Osama bin Hidin would not have been able to launch the September 11th attacks.
posted by
WriterofLight
on June 20, 2006 at 8:12 PM
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Sign of Strength
Admitting you're wrong and changing directions is a sign of strength. Osama didn't attack us because he thought we were weak. He - and the millions that support him - say foreign intervention has wrecked havoc on Middle Eastern economies and culture. I don't agree with his general worldview (which include a lot of the same viewpoints as the most extreme on the right and left in the U.S.) and certainly not his modus operendi (sppp?), but getting to root causes of why so many hate us around the world is better than anything else we could do.
Strong words, provocative post!
--Shawn, "Tall and Skinny Politico"
posted by
TallAndSkinnyPoet
on June 20, 2006 at 3:28 PM
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If the FBI and CIA had done their job ...
Osaama would have never been able to strike in America. They couldn't prevent that terrorist attack, but they more than made up for that blunder by fabricating evidence of WMD.
posted by
fwmystic
on June 20, 2006 at 9:37 AM
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