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Thursday, November 20, 2008

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Saadia commented on my post about attacks in Pakistan and asked for a reply. I am not going to reply to every point in the comment.

"And why was Iraq attacked? There were no mass weapons there. Quite obnoxiously, many Americans believe Saddam was Al-Qaeda. Please write a post to correct that perception. Thanks."

Being new to my blog, you don't know my reasons. Frankly, I could not care less if WMD or any connection between Al-Qaeda existed. Iraq had shot down three of our unmanned aircraft after the First Gulf War. Iraq was sending money to the families of suicide attackers who had died killing Israelies. The WMD was a good excuse. Everyone thought that they had them.

I am a historian. On the afternoon of 9/11/01, I watched the film of the attacks and finally drew the connection. The first time Repeated suicide attack had been seen in all of recorded history was during the 1940's with Japan's effort to win the war. The parallels between Japan and it's culture prior to the war are strikingly similar to that of the Middle East. All wars and cultures are unique. The most basic instinct in all living things is survival. Humanity has learned to get past that, but for organized suicide, a cultural pattern would probably exist. We won the war against Japan by literally blowing the people apart before they could reach you. Most importantly, they started the shooting. After 9/11, just in order to protect ourselves, the U.S. HAD to wage offensive warfare. Iraq was as good a place on Earth that we could have chosen. Please research the culture of Bushido. Then judge for yourself.

2 comments:

  1. No WMD's? Saddam used WMD on the Iranians and the Kurds, and as recently as recently as this Summer over 550 metric tons of Yellowcake was taken out of Iraq.
    Don't forget that Saddam violated 19 UN resolutions regarding this same subject.

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  2. Offensive war on whom? What you propose is to send our military (and any available private security contractors) on a mission to oblitarate extremism in one of the world's three major monotheistic religious groups. How does the math even square with this idea as a solution to terrorism?

    What must be done is a coordinated combination of actions that amounts to a focused policy.

    As much as Ann Coulter ridiculed John Kerry's book "The New War" as approaching terror as a crime issue, that is exactly what needs to be done. These criminals need to be isolated in global fasion, politically and economically.

    The success that Senator Kerry spearheaded, particularly in the dismantling of the Bank of Commerce and Credit International (BCCI), can and should be updated and repeated.

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