First of all, for the record, I’ve never advocated cut and run. Yes, the terrorists may be emboldened if we do that.
As far as remembering 9/11, yes we need to always remember that. But it shouldn’t be implied that 9/11 justified invading Iraq in the first place. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. If we were going to invade anybody (after Afghanistan) because of 9/11, it should have been Saudi Arabia. Comparing Iraq’s funding of terrorists to Saudi Arabia’s is like comparing the Botswana’s GNP to that of the U.S. We invaded Iraq because that’s what neocons had wanted to do for a decade before 9/11. They just needed an excuse, and 9/11 was it.
Let me ask you this, PD: Do you think it was a mistake to invade Iraq? If not, why not? What have we accomplished there? What did we hope to accomplish there (that would make us/the world safer than it was before we invaded, not safer than it is now).
