(May 11, 2011 at 10:15 pm)Shell B Wrote: Anyway, I would like to see these greater benefits. It has been roughly ten years and all we have is massive fucking debt for helping protect people from terrorists.
Of course there's going to be a massive debt in undertaking such a mission, but there was a reason for going to Afghanistan other than to fight against terrorism because Bush had planned to do this even before the September attacks, which I also mentioned earlier in this post. Therefore, this means that he was definitely thinking that going to Afghanistan would be worth it even though it is a costly operation.
"This conclusion is reinforced by reports indicating that the United States had made the decision to invade Afghanistan two months before the 9/11 attacks. At least part of the background to this decision was the United States’ long-time support for UNOCAL’s proposed pipeline, which would transport oil and natural gas from the Caspian Sea region to the Indian Ocean through Afghanistan and Pakistan. This project had been stymied through the 1990s because of the civil war that had been going on in Afghanistan since the Soviet withdrawal in 1989." - Source
(May 11, 2011 at 10:27 pm)Minimalist Wrote: No, no, no. He's just tying his turban too tightly!
I know you didn't mean it literally, but there are even many non-Muslims who will agree with me on this topic, so you can't make that phrase applicable to me. This is based on my own knowledge of the events surrounding 9/11. Plus, I don't wear a turban anyways. It's a cultural thing and you know that most Muslims don't wear it haha.
