If the war on terror had anything to do with, as Belial put it, giving succour and sanctuary to al-Qaeda then the next target for invasion would have been Saudi Arabia. Hell, Saudi possibly should have been the first. But by that metric of justification, Iraq shouldn't have ever been on the radar. If the answer is to invade countries which contain people who support the terrorists, would you agree that England would've been justified to invade Ireland? If so, you must extend your support to an English invasion of the US itself, the IRA got loads of money from our fellow citizens.

I can't tell you how much I disliked the Taliban, and the destruction of the Buddahs had me downright appopleptic and screaming at the news program. But you can't use those as mitigating factors and pretend you're doing anything but sugar coating a pill. If invading another country is a pill that NEEDS sugar coating, it strikes me the case hasn't been made convincingly.

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