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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: D. Long who wrote (6063)	11/20/2003 4:45:46 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 15987

While Bush diverted his attention from the war in Afghanistan to "regime change" in Iraq to avenge the assasination attempt on his father by leading the Americans to believe of a "imminent threat" from Iraqi WMD. While Cheney and Rumsfeld served the oil lobby interests to grab the Iraqi oilfields and encouraged the Iraqi invasion. The Al-Qaeda which was on the run in Afghanistan took time to regroup. Now they have come back with twice the venom with the latest series of bombings in Turkey. What benefit is it to the war on terrorism, as people die. Let us remember that the US decided to go it alone and didn't care what the world had to say. The key to fighting a guerilla type operation which the terrorists run is a very wide and robust network of worldwide intelligence. That is what we had during the Clinton years. Locate the hubs of terrorists activity and shoot then down with sophisticated missiles. I don't think a Rambo like, gun totting approach will cut it.