I agree with you my friend that 1 death is one too many. But what is the very purpose of armed forces existance?
Here are my thoughts why I take this in stride. I have been reading other countries papers for past 3 years and data we get on terrorism here is just tip of iceberg. The bulk of terrorism worldwide is anitiated out of middle east and Malaysia. It was a matter of time before they brought it stateside. Islamic fundamentalist do not want peace period and there is no way to end it but to irradicate them.
Let say for sake of argument that all reasons for us to go in there at the beginning was hype by the government. Lets say they just wanted an excuse to occupy this territory to put us in a territory that we could more closely montor the heart of terrorist.
Whatever the reason we went in, here have been the results.
We are sitting dab in the middle of Saudi-Iran and Syria and putting heat on them that could not have been done by any other means.We have cut of there easy access across Iraq.
We have stopped their little OPEC arrangements in future on oil prices.--as a by product we have freed a country of tyranny.
Whether they are receptive or grateful has yet to be seen.
Iran is very close to having a revolt of pro U.S. revolutionaries--how ironic we are in such close proximaty to help.
Do you think Saudi's turn around of late would have ever come had we not invaded Iraq?
The biggest change I have seen of late particularily in other countries is the peaceful Muslims are now getting involved against the Islamic Fundalists where prior they had sat on sidelines. However I would make note it is more the result of the terrorist oversight that they can kill even innocent peaceful Muslims without them becoming angered more so than any result of U.S. policy.But there has never been such a joint network of countries sharing info vs terrorist as has occurred in last 6 months. and it is most definately necessary.IMHO
One thing I wish would occur is (if) Iraq is successfully rebuilt I think they should repay at least partially the U.S. with future oil to offset cost. Kind of like paying the reward on the 2 boys from money confiscated from them. Also all the frozen terrorist accounts would go a long way in the right org (if there is such a thing) to fund other countries in similiar circumstances in the future. lots of speculation and opinion but food for thought.
