I never said Iraq "started" anything. No Iraqi terrorist has ever attacked the U.S. on behalf of the nation of Iraq.
Why 9-11? Please get your hands on the book "Blowback-The Costs and Consequences of American Empire" by Chalmers Johnson. He basically predicted a major, catastrophic attack like 9-11 a year before it occurred based upon U.S. foreign policy practices in the middle east that have been fermenting and festering hatred toward the west for years and years.
Right after 9-11 a professor at the University of New Mexico (Albuquerque) was put on administrative leave and nearly fired for telling a group of students what a "spectacular" and well executed attack those terrorists pulled off on 9-11. It was way too soon to be talking about that tragedy with anything close to objectivity but his point was correct from a military point of view. Remember.....the "terrorists" are simply the army with the smallest bombs.
Am I sympathising with the terrorists or "admiring" or "supporting" them?
No.
I am simply aknowledging the fact that the "rules" of warfare have changed. There aren't any "fronts" in this WOT other than U.S. foreign policy. The enemy doesn't dress himself up in uniforms which are easily distinguishable from ordinary Muslim garb. They don't play by our "rules" and why should they? They want to win. They have taken their strategies straight from Sun Tzu. They have looked at the U.S. for decades and seen a giant, well armoured dragon and realized they have no hope of defeating it by conventional means. Instead they found a tiny chink in the armour. They know we are too big and clumsy to fight terrorism on the scale of small independent cells. Our armies are not set up that way.
There is a lot of interesting reading, as far as military literature goes concerning the battles with the Apache indians in the southwest toward the end of the nineteenth century. As far as I know they still teach cadets at West Point about the "Apache wars" and still hold those bands of ragtag, gut eating warriors up as an example of one of the most deadly and effective light calvaries in the history of warfare. Someday no doubt they will teach the same thing about today's radical Islamic terrorists.
