Originally posted by EternalOne:
Originally posted by spgoode:
I know I'm short-sighted and ignorant of reality but you didn't address my gripe with the statement by EternalOne. He stated that if we were not in Iraq fighting terrorists, then the terrorists would try to come here. My question was, how would they get here? When would they get the chance? What could we be doing that would prevent them from getting here?



The fact remains that Al Zarqawi was a threat long before the Iraq war -- he was growing in strength and power in the region, we just forced him to the surface with the invasion, most likely before he wanted to step into the limelight once again. (Yes, again.)

Our country, by nature, has a very open system of travel -- this comes with our level of freedom. Ever hear of Ramzi Yousef? He was one of the 93 WTC bombers, in the country legally after he was granted asylum in the US.

Right now they are very limited, with them being pre-occupied with us on two fronts. Without us there they would have much greater freedom of movement in the Middle East, and that would make operational planning all that much easier. Bounce to a few free-travel countries and then onto the US. Right now they are too worried about the "free pickings" of US Soldiers in Iraq, coupled with the fact that we keep killing their leaders and gathering operational intelligence and you have us holding them back on all fronts.

E1


Again, with procedural changes and tightened border security we could be reasonably sure that nothing resembling September 11th would happen again. All this could be done at a tiny fraction of the cost we are spending in Iraq.
"Taking the fight to the terrorists" is nonsense and that is my point.

Dueling Duratecs '95 SE V6 MTX 0 Mods '04 Mazda6 S Wagon '03 Kawasaki Z1000 But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Friedrich Nietzsche