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Originally Posted by Fidatelo
I think the saddest part is that the US had everyone (in the Western world at least) eating from the palm of their hands after the 9/11 attacks. We all had the feeling of how we'd taken the US for granted, and how horrible it was to see 'the big guy' take a hit like that essentially for the rest of us. We all gathered in line to go into Afghanistan and get the assholes responsible.
And then Bush set his sights on Iraq...
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The main bastard that did this was captured in Pakistan - I wonder how the world would have reacted to an invasion there. Afghanistan was, and still is a bunch of oppressive super-religious guys that gave shelter to Bin Laden - they weren't the master-minds of 9/11 any more than anybody that was killed in Iraq. Worthy of death, sure, but the terrorists would fight us wherever we engaged, and Afghanistan would have been as drawn out a quagmire as Iraq, except with more difficult terrain. Neither war is the "right war", the "right war" was much more complicated and certainly eluded the administration (though they came the closest, of course, by convincing Pakistan to get involved in the capture of KSM.)
If Europeans hate Americans for what their government did, and for what banks did, they can go to hell. The fact that it's a "democracy" and we're somehow responsible for them is similar logic Al-Qaeda gives for murdering civilians.