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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (386354)5/25/2008 6:34:41 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 1575981
 
>> And military action would have stopped those, how?

It wouldn't have stopped THOSE.

But had we not gone to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, we would almost certainly have had additional attacks since then.

Within months after 9/11 almost everyone agreed that more attacks were likely in the near term. It is now 7 years without another attack on our soil, and you have to attribute it to something other than our good luck (this is what Z thinks).

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have fragmented AQ so badly that it is essentially dysfunctional. While it was able to pull off attacks in a few locations after 9/11, none in the US, it cannot even muster an attack of ANY KIND right now.

This is called defeating the enemy, and is a direct result of the US having a strong military.
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