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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (7393)	11/1/2001 10:00:34 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

There should be a law against putting all those questions in the same paragraph. <LOL> So, do you think we bombed the Red Cross facilities only in order to be mean? There was a reason, perhaps reasonable to some. I don't believe that it was a necessity by any stretch of the imagination. I believe that it was more important to respect the boundries of the Red Cross than any military gain that we think it might have had. I think it's a political mistake to claim officially that it was accidental, when it was intentional. We claim that this is not a war against Afghanistan...it's pretty hard to convince our Muslim Allies of that when we bomb Red Cross facilities....whatever the reason. That the balance you pick..what is the necessity of bombing the Red Cross vs. maintaining support of the coalition. Which is of the greater import? Also, you seem to think we are obliged to put as many of our personnel at risk as possible. Should we go back to the days when armies faced off in ranks across open fields and shot at one another in a kind of mass- duel? No and No. Is it the hypocrisy that bothers you? Not the hypocrisy specifically. It's the pretense that we're not hypocritical that is annoying. It's a PR game [with death] why pretend that it is not? Does it make us feel righteous? ....I do not think there is any hypocrisy whatsoever...... I think I addressed that above. One thing to consider is that the Afghans think that they were used by the US during the Afghan/Soviet conflict and then abandoned. They were. So here we are once again calling on the Afghans [northern alliance] to do the dirty ground work....we're high above it all. We applauded [perhaps even expected] the Brits for providing warm bodies. What should the Northern Alliance expect from us? To stay at 15,000 ft. to minimize our casualities. Sounds fair to us. Do you think it sounds fair to them? Is this a coalition war, or is it a US war? jttmab