Reply #95: the attack on Afghanistan was a terrible mistake.... [View All]

Most of the individuals associated with the 9-11 attacks escaped, all but a very few of the people killed had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with terrorism-- they were either noncombatants or civilians fighting yet another foreign invader that they had done nothing to deserve, the country was shattered, the Northern Alliance-- the folks we armed al-Qeada to fight during the 80's-- carved Afghanistan into fiefdoms dominated by feudal warlords, and we installed a puppet president who continues to breathe only as long as we protect him and he stays inside the gates of Kabul.

Okay, it wasn't all bad news-- we got to try out some spiffy new weapons on warm, splattery people, the opium business is booming, and Amerikans got a collective revenge rush, inconveniently directed mostly at innocents, but who's counting at this point?