Comments on: Sleep well http://cogscanthink.blogsome.com/2007/12/17/sleep-well/ I'm feeling pretty good about myself right about now. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:04:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: google_ninja http://cogscanthink.blogsome.com/2007/12/17/sleep-well/#comment-2372 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:56:35 +0000 http://cogscanthink.blogsome.com/2007/12/17/sleep-well/#comment-2372 Honestly, Afghanistan and Iraq are two completely, totally, and utterly different issues. 9/11 was a big deal, when you make such a public act of aggression against the most powerful nation on the planet, expect to be crushed. If Afghanistan supported the group who did it, they are guilty by association. IMO the US was justified in going to war with Afghanistan. As for Iraq, I still have yet to hear a clear reason why they are there. First it was the Amazing Disappearing WMDs, and hints that Iraq was part of the 9/11 thing (many americans still think they were). Then it was because Iraq funded groups who funded groups who funded groups who funded al'qaida. Nowadays it is because they can't leave. I have yet to hear any sort of legitimate justification for Iraq, other then the American government wanted to take them down, and used the fact that the nation was in a war mongering kind of mood after 9/11 to do it. But back to the main point, Afghanistan wasn't about bringing democracy to the heathens, it was about crushing the country that launched an un provoked attack against america (and I am sorry, the saudis letting american companies pay them boatloads of money to drill oil on Muslim lands is not a legitimate reason to declare war). Now that America has finished crushing and decided they were going to pull out, it is the role of the UN to come in a peacekeeping capacity. We shouldn't be trying to shove democracy down their throats, but we shouldn't leave until the country is stabilized. Honestly, Afghanistan and Iraq are two completely, totally, and utterly different issues. 9/11 was a big deal, when you make such a public act of aggression against the most powerful nation on the planet, expect to be crushed. If Afghanistan supported the group who did it, they are guilty by association. IMO the US was justified in going to war with Afghanistan.

As for Iraq, I still have yet to hear a clear reason why they are there. First it was the Amazing Disappearing WMDs, and hints that Iraq was part of the 9/11 thing (many americans still think they were). Then it was because Iraq funded groups who funded groups who funded groups who funded al’qaida. Nowadays it is because they can’t leave. I have yet to hear any sort of legitimate justification for Iraq, other then the American government wanted to take them down, and used the fact that the nation was in a war mongering kind of mood after 9/11 to do it.

But back to the main point, Afghanistan wasn’t about bringing democracy to the heathens, it was about crushing the country that launched an un provoked attack against america (and I am sorry, the saudis letting american companies pay them boatloads of money to drill oil on Muslim lands is not a legitimate reason to declare war). Now that America has finished crushing and decided they were going to pull out, it is the role of the UN to come in a peacekeeping capacity. We shouldn’t be trying to shove democracy down their throats, but we shouldn’t leave until the country is stabilized.

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