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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR

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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (1529)	1/16/2003 1:17:04 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (3) of 25898

I never said that eliminating the taliban is wrong. It's just in this instance it happened to be the wrong way to eliminate them. Do you think if we said "Pretty please, go away, Afghanistan needs a new gov't", they would have done it? Given that they would not, what was the alternative to the use of force? You seem to have forgotten some rather relevant history. The US knew bin Laden was in Afghanistan. The US gov't asked, then demanded that he be turned over for trial. The Taliban refused. We made clear that if they would not give him to us, we would go in and get him- -and overthrow their gov't in the process. They still refused. We invaded. Does that change anything? We're talking about the man who instigated, financed, and planned the WTC attack. As far as I am concerned, the US was fully and unquestionably justified in its actions. Should we just have ignored those 3,000 dead? That's more than were killed at Pearl Harbor.

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