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Go Get 'Em!
By anitamckay on 2009-11-04 08:50:23
At times, US foreign policy resembles nothing so much as a liquored up man sitting in his livingroom, trying to bring down
a fly with a shotgun. Blam! There goes the lamp! Blam! Oops! Hole in the couch! Blam! Almost got the little dickens!
Blam! Blam! Blam! When we stop to think about what Al Qaeda is, it's easy to see that the bomb and occupy strategy
doesn't work. Al Qaeda is operating in at least 60 countries. We haven't been successful with our strategy in two countries.
How do we occupy sixty? (Of course, the invasion and destruction of Iraq wasn't about Al Qaeda, except when the war was
being peddled to us by the Bush Administration). If nothing else, Al Qaeda just keeps moving away from the hot spots, as
the way the leaders are now believed to be in the Sudan rather than around the Afghani/Pakistani border. The cost of the
wars (as of this writing): About $1 trillion dollars spent More than 5,000 US soldiers killed Almost 2,000 coalition soldiers
killed More than 1,600 civilian contractors killed More than 700,000 human beings killed in Afghanistan More than 100,000
civilians killed in Iraq The gains from the war Saddam Hussein removed and replaced by near-anarchy Karzai still the
titular head of Afghanistan, amid widespread allegations of voter fraud. He controls about very little of the country. There
goes the lamp!
