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To: bentway who wrote (622958)	8/4/2011 10:31:39 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1582533

The result is a warped American foreign policy, ready to conceive of problems in military terms and present a ready military solution. Describing precisely this phenomenon, Eisenhower remarked that to a man with a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. In his often-quoted farewell address, Eisenhower urged a balance between military and non-military spending. Unfortunately, it has become far more unbalanced in the decades since his speech. Fareed seems to overlook one key point: We were attacked on American soil on 9/11 and 3,000 of our citizens were killed. Of course we're going to war. And it was abundantly clear at the time the biggest fight would be at home, trying to keep Americans focused on what actually happened. There ought to be a 9/11 channel on cable that replays the day and the aftermath 24/7 -- just so the 95% of people who have totally forgotten could keep in their minds what happened. We spent a lot of money and lost a lot of lives but the reality is that we decimated AQ in the few years after 9/11 and we won't EVER know what the value of that action really was.