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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry
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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (11602)4/2/2004 11:23:19 AM
From: redfishRead Replies (1) of 81568
 
"In those cases where there has been success, however, it's come because the methods of suppression were so severe that the locals aided in preventing terrorism. If we lined up a thousand Iraqis and shot them each time one of ours was killed or injured, eventually the Iraqis would either become our best allies in stopping terrorism or we would run out of Iraqis. I don't think that's a method most of us would like to adopt."

That has always been the approach that I favored. My idea on how to respond to 9/11 was to drop enough bombs on Afghanistan to kill 30,000 people chosen more or less at random, and then send in troops to clean up remaining Al Qaeda/Taliban.

It would have resulted in worldwide condemnation and disgust with the US, but I think it would have taught the appropriate lesson, and inspired the appropriate fear. Nations would have feared us for the right reason.

What we did to Iraq taught the wrong lesson, and made people fear us for the wrong reason.
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