I called it--- he's pro-Osama. We could even spin it the other way--- Osama shot his load in 2001 and, after Afghanistan, we had nothing to worry about. Those pro-Iraqi War fucks, like that mod there, just wanted to spend a bunch of money we don't have sending a bunch of younger generation folk to go die in its generation's Vietnam, all to go after Saddam Hussein for no good reason.
I'm going to take issue with you here.
This is exactly what
that mod said in post
#4 of this thread:
Bin Laden hadn't been able to mastermind much anything after 9-11. So, an argument could be made that he really didn't pose much of a threat.
He didn't say that he agreed with the assessment, but rather acknowledged that an argument could be made that Bin Laden really wasn't that much of a threat anymore.
That mod also went on to say (same post):
The terrorists are much more decentralized now. They can act in very low tech ways that can still cause havoc. Think shopping centers and schools.
Taking out Bin Laden, regardless of whatever threat that the man himself my have been against us, was a message to the rest of the terrorist groups out there that we will hunt you down and kill you, regardless of how long it takes.
So that's something, and I think anyone would be hard pressed to prove otherwise...unless of course they're just "haters" of anyone and anything that doesn't support an ideology that they've come to embrace.
That mod also stated in his three short paragraph post:
The revolutions going on in the Middle East may not be the good thing that many seem to think they are. The Muslim Brotherhood seems to be emerging as a leading political force in Egypt. More radical religious screwballs running countries is not exactly what we need.
American foreign policy, and our involvement in the Middle East for the past 60+ years; supporting "un-democratic" Monarchies (Saudi Arabia), toppling democratically elected governments (Iran to install a "Shah"), and our unprecedented "regime change" in Iraq, has always been about energy and our dependence upon oil.
Stating that openly and publicly acknowledging that, does that make an "apologist?" Does that make me "Un-American?"
Have I just given the so called "
Fair and Balanced" conservatives reason to proclaim that I'm being neither fair or balanced?
Or
*gasp* an "american hating libtard?"
In my view
that mod and I are about as far apart when it comes to political "labels" as one can get.
But we're all Americans, and in my view we need to get past the political posturing and the fake outrage, and to now take a more SERIOUS look at how we (As Americans!) continue to execute
Bush43's "war on terror."
And quickly before Lindsay Lohan goes back into rehab, Trump says something stupid, or Charlie Sean sobers up!
Bin Laden is dead,
terrorism throughout the world is not.
And as I linked to proof that he was pleased about Saddam's capture and/or death, he felt that the ends justified the means even though Saddam never ONCE posed a threat to us during Dubya's term and had nothing to do with 9/11. We had no business invading, tearing down, stomping on, and poorly reconstructing Iraq... but he bitches pathetically about a surgical strike team taking out the 9/11 mastermind.
Who are we talking about here?
That mod, the current GOP, the conservative media, or some defined ideology?
It really is transparent, those people, those disgusting, pro-terrorist people, who've gone out of their way to ruin the lives of subsequent generations more than Osama ever dreamed, I bet. I mean, that's not counting about the domestic (refuses to pay their own bills)/government (ie US Patriot Act, one example among so, so many) side--- the severe damage alone wrought by that one optional war is devastating.
Rather than ranting about it like some loon from the comfort of wherever you're posting from, why not come out of the closet and share with your family and friends the fallacy of supporting a party, and ideology and a foreign policy that's truly not in the best interest of not only their interests, but also our Republic?
Both politically, domestically, economically, and environmentally.
As opposed to continuing the divisive rhetoric that we continue to hear from both "sides?"
Don't you get it?
