Anniversary

[Carl Remick]

>From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>
>Carl Remick wrote:
> >
> > I still think it was a mistake for the US to have pursued a military 
>rather
> > than a legal remedy post-9/11, both because of the continuing 
>"collateral
> > damage" in Afghanistan and because of the precedent Afghanistan sets for
> > major US military offenses in Iraq and elsewhere.
>
>Mistake? Who in the U.S. government cares about that collateral damage?
>And the greatest advantage (unless we succeed in taking it away from
>them) the U.S. government achieved in the Afghanistan war was precisely
>to set a precedent for further U.S. military campaigns.

To clarify, it was and is a mistake for so many American *citizens* to 
endorse their government's military response to the 9/11 attack.  
Simpleminded folks who believe the world will be a safer, more decent place 
because of US military adventurism are pathetic.

Carl

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