>>Yes, Bill Clinton thought that about every attack prior to 9/11 - WTC1, Khobar, Cole, Kenya .... Bin Laden has actually said he found that approach quite encouraging, so it did indeed have some positive effect on foreign opinion.
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>>Perhaps, after a thorough investigation, we should have gone to the Hague and sought justice?
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>The US don't recognize that court. So... what are you suggesting, that they should recognize it?
No, I was sarcasticly suggesting it as an option that would have yielded no results whatsoever but is the kind of bone-headed feel-good solution that would be favored by those who find feeling good about themselves to be more important that achieving the goal of removing enemy pieces from the board.
I believe the Afghanistan operation was exactly what was called for but was squandered at Tora Bora, partly due to Rumsfield's obsession with doing it all on the the cheap.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
