Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (83828)	9/12/2008 2:54:30 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542009

>>"This policy was used to justify the invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001[2] and has since been applied to American military action against Al Qaeda camps in Pakistan."<< Karen - The two main tenets of the Bush Doctrine, to me, are the "we can attack anybody we think poses a danger to us" First Strike policy, and the "we can attack anybody we want unilaterally if we want to" policy. Neither of those really apply to what happened in Afghanistan, in my opinion. We had been attacked, not just threatened, and we had widespread foreign support (including France and Germany). - Allen