>I think the only reason we have not had a successful
>attack on us after 9-11 is
>because we are keeping them too busy over there.
That could be one possibility.
Would you consider another?
How about in the murky world of terrorism, they are getting exactly what they want. War and unrest. If you wanted to tumble the ruling elite say in Saudi Arabia, what better way then to get the Great Satan tromping around in a Fourth Generation Land War that it can’t “win”.
And, why would you stir up the American people any more. They might form a national resolve and really kick ass! Think Pearl Harbor. You don’t want to awaking the sleeping giant. As Japanese admiral Yammamoto advised. They could turn your “sacred land” into glass if you piss ’em off enough. Note, how carefully they tiptoe around Israel.
We’re an easily distracted people. The radicals have exactly what they want.
In exactly the degree that they want it.
Easy to kill Americans that get the locals riled up. We’re blundering around blowing up a local wedding for example. They’ve split our country down the middle with the stupid war. No, I’d say that they have Uncle Sam by the beard, are kicking our butt, and accomplishing their short and long term objectives.
Once the entire Muslim world is under one caliphate, then they will turn their attention to finishing the Crusades with Europe, and eventually the Great Satan.
We make the same mistakes when dealing with China and Korea. We don’t have a long-term perspective.
We need to MYOB. That, my friend, is not being a dove. We have our own set of problems to deal with. You deal with this disaster by “leaving the party”. We need foreign policy that follows President Washington’s directive. (He also decreed no torturing POWs!)
Did you ever consider why the old USSR had so little “foreign policy” problems, except for where they blundered in Afghanistan? They had a policy that if you crossed them, the KGB killed you, your family, and anyone who helped you. Government, non-government, guerilla. It didn’t matter. I think in my recollection one USSR ambassador was killed for political reasons and the KGB took out about 8o people they believed had a hand in it. Needless to say, no one messed with them. That’s not being a dove.
It’s called Letters of Marque and Reprisal.
If we thought that Osama was the problem, then we should have offered say 50B$ taxfree payable at your favorite Swiss bank for proof that he was dead. How long do you think he would have survived? Add a billion a week, until you get what you want. It’d still be cheaper that the 30T$, 600k+ Iraqui dead, and ~6k Americans.
American foreign policy is too blunt, too war-oriented, too inefficient and too ineffective.
That’s what Ron Paul was saying.
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