Real Al Qaeda
The following countries have had well documented high level contact with senior members of Al Qaeda.
Afghanistan
Sudan
Iran
Saudi Arabia
Lebanon
Syria
Egypt
Pakistan
Why didn't we invade all of them?
posted by ian @ 9:41 PM
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1 Comments:
First off, you should probably remove Afghanistan from your list because we discarded that outlaw terrorist regime already.
Second, I gather from what you say that because we invaded a country led by a regime that had:
1. killed hundreds of thousands of its own people
2. invaded its own neighbors in an extremely volatile part of the world.
3. paid money in exchange for terrorists to kill innocents
4. possessed and used weapons of mass destruction
5. attempted to assassinate an American president
...we should therefore, by logic of our attack on Iraq, have simultaneously invaded the seven other countries that you mentioned above.
Now that's a foreign policy!
As President, George W. Bush dealt with what he felt were the most compelling threats to the national security of the United States. Certainly this doesn't mean that Bush or any other American president will not have to deal with threats in the future from Iran, Syria, North Korea, China, etc.
Some may not agree that Iraq was America's biggest threat. But, as Commander in Chief, President Bush has to make priorities- in his case, Afghanistan was #1, Iraq was #2. Many of the other countries on the list no doubt also make his threat matrix.
Wondering aloud why we didn't invade all of the threats we face is just plain silly, not to mention illogical in its failure to note the fact that some of those countries have been our allies in the War on Terror.
-BB
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