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http://www.livejournal.com/users/fenixinthedark/18089.html

FitD goes off the rails, and rails pretty fucking well.

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[fenixinthedark.livejournal.com]

Why, thank you very much.

I just post 'em as I find 'em.

[mighty-man.livejournal.com]

Though I think the US has wasted it's time on the war, mostly because they didn't do it right....one other thing must always been considered:
History is written by the victors.

I'm curious to see what would have happened to Bush if nothing had been done in the aftermath of 9/11. If he had just sat on his ass and done nothing, the public would have been clammoring for his head. He took a gamble and most would say that he lost.

On the other hand, had he taken down Al-Quaida, Iran and Iraq, Saddam and Bin-Laden with a series of "well-executed tactical maneuvers", you could have been certain his place in history would have been cemeted.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
MM

[mighty-man.livejournal.com]

PS A very well thought out article by the way.

Third times a charm

[fenixinthedark.livejournal.com]

How is it "damned if you do" if he had gone after Osama Bin Laden with as much energy as has been wasted in Iraq? The man behind 9-11 is still at large while we dump billions of dollars and thousands of lives (on top of those already lost in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and on the flight that crashed in PA). I just don't understand how it is a lose/lose scenario when one of the options would have appeased the American public while actually addressing the cause of the attacks against us.

The only rationale I can come up with for the diversionary tactics used to alter the publics perception of the "threat" (from Al Quaeda and Osama to Iraq and Hussein) is that the administration had it's own agenda not necessarily tied to the "reasons" (given) for their actions, and said agenda needed an excuse to make it seem legitimate in order for them to be able to pursue it (without immediate repercussions from the American people and legislature).