"A thought experiment: What if we had treated the 9/11 attacks as crimes rather than acts of war? And what if we had tried to avoid war entirely in the meantime?
"What if we had declared Al Qaeda to be a criminal enterprise and its members to be criminals...?"
"Our failure to finger Saudi Arabia and our subsequent blaming of Iraq for 9/11 struck millions of Muslims as absurd.) Working through the law and the UN we would have had virtually the entire world on our side: support that likely would not have dwindled to the 'Coalition of the Willing' that joined us in invading and occupying Iraq."
Author John Neely argues the War on Terror is nonsense, and US shock and awe is simply an updated version of Hitler's Blitzkrieg. He also points out our national debt would be 2-3 trillion dollars lower than it is today had we not gone to war.
"John Neely is retired and lives in Salem. MA. His current project is the historiography of Brevet Major General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, famous and fabled Union Civil War combat leader. Neely holds degrees from Princeton and Harvard Law School. He served as a sergeant in the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam. He was awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star Medal and is entitled to wear the Combat Infantryman Badge. His email is[email protected].
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"What if we had declared Al Qaeda to be a criminal enterprise and its members to be criminals...?"
"Our failure to finger Saudi Arabia and our subsequent blaming of Iraq for 9/11 struck millions of Muslims as absurd.) Working through the law and the UN we would have had virtually the entire world on our side: support that likely would not have dwindled to the 'Coalition of the Willing' that joined us in invading and occupying Iraq."
Author John Neely argues the War on Terror is nonsense, and US shock and awe is simply an updated version of Hitler's Blitzkrieg. He also points out our national debt would be 2-3 trillion dollars lower than it is today had we not gone to war.
"John Neely is retired and lives in Salem. MA. His current project is the historiography of Brevet Major General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, famous and fabled Union Civil War combat leader. Neely holds degrees from Princeton and Harvard Law School. He served as a sergeant in the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam. He was awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star Medal and is entitled to wear the Combat Infantryman Badge. His email is[email protected].
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