xsited1
Agent P
We were justified in attacking Afghanistan? There are a lot of people who will disagree with you. The Taliban promised that if the United States could bring evidence that bin Laden was guilty, they would hand him over, stating that they had no evidence linking him to the September 11 attacks. That sounds like a reasonable request, right? The US did not provide evidence, but the bombs fell anyway. Nation building is always a bad idea. And we're right in the middle of it.
This is America. People are allowed to disagree.
The Taliban never had any intention on acting in good faith. They also had no intentions of handing Bin Laden over.
Once we enter a country, we inherit the task of "nation building". It's a reality that needs to be weighed by the American people in the run up to the war.
I thought it was worth it in Afghanistan, but not in Iraq. However, the task is much easier in Iraq due to oil.
And therein lies the problem: once we enter a country, we inherit the task of nation building. Screw that. The fact is that Congress never authorized this war. When Bush was President, everyone was accusing him of attacking Afghanistan to control the Afghanistan Oil Pipeline. Now that Obama has decided to escalate the war, nobody mentions that anymore. And all of a sudden there are 'vast riches of minerals' in Afghanistan. Anything to justify a war. It stinks, especially for all the soldiers and innocent civilians who have been killed or maimed by this silly war.