Lucille
05-02-2011, 02:01 PM
Symbolic Victory (http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/05/bin-laden-killed-buried-at-sea-text-of.html)
In many ways this is nothing but a symbolic victory, representing a failure of US politics and priorities as much as a triumph. The US could have and should have killed Bin Laden a decade ago.
Instead we invaded Iraq because Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said "Iraq has More Targets".
Thus we wasted trillions of dollars fighting a war that should never have been fought, letting the mastermind of 911 escape.
Exactly.
The neocons and their nation-building wars are hardest hit.
I'm seeing a lot of people calling for an end to these nation-building wars at HotAir, which is good news. The bad news is, they're giving the credit for the initial intelligence coming out of GITMO via waterboarding.
In many ways this is nothing but a symbolic victory, representing a failure of US politics and priorities as much as a triumph. The US could have and should have killed Bin Laden a decade ago.
Instead we invaded Iraq because Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said "Iraq has More Targets".
Thus we wasted trillions of dollars fighting a war that should never have been fought, letting the mastermind of 911 escape.
Exactly.
The neocons and their nation-building wars are hardest hit.
I'm seeing a lot of people calling for an end to these nation-building wars at HotAir, which is good news. The bad news is, they're giving the credit for the initial intelligence coming out of GITMO via waterboarding.