Melissa-
Would you rather have the US just sit back and take no military action? Oh yeah, that would have been great. No innocent Afgans would have died. Yeah!!
... but wait, what message would that send the terrorists whose very intention was to kill innocent people. If we would have just bombed the Taliban and left, what would they have thought?
They would have then assumed that they could terrorize the rest of the world without punishment, because, hey, they got away with killing thousands of innocent people in the most powerful country in the world, why can't they do it everywhere?
So, should we sit back and cry about the thousands of Afgans who we killed? Yes, that will do us alot of good. Instead we should dwell on the fact that we took out one of the world's evilest governments. Also, and being a female yourself this should have even more signifigance for you, we should consider every single woman who can now live a decent life in their country thanks to the US removing the Taliban. Now, it doesn't look so bad if we consider every woman in Afganistan a life gained, as their life a year ago could hardly be called a life. Please consider this when you say that the US made a fool of itself and that they are acting simply on revenge, not justice.
Would it be just to simply let the terrorists live freely and gain even more support? Would it be just to allow them to claim that their "mission" was a success? This would simply show that we are afraid of them. So before you fly your anti war flag, think about what would happen if we hadn't began the military campaign in the Middle East.
Would there probably be a few thousand more innocent Afgans alive? yes
but..
Would there tens of thousands of women there living a life tens of thousands of times better than they had a year ago? Most defidently not.
Would the Taliban still be controlling Afganistan? yes
Would Osamo Bin Laden have even more supporters than he had a year ago? yes
Would the Al Quedia (sp?) terrorist network try to kill even more than they did on 9-11? yes
and I'm sorry if I offended you by using profanity (which i edited myself).
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Andy- The fact is that the United States has the most accurate military technology available. Mistakes happen. And as far as the food labels, it seems a little foolish on your part to let that mistake overshadow the fact that they did indeed drop a large amount of food for the people there.
Once again, to answer the question of what has been achieved, the fact that terrorists can't truly say that their killing was succesful was achieved, and because of this they can't slaughter innocent lives again wothout knowing that their entire country will be wiped out. This will obviously lower the number of innocent lives lost, though it will not be considered by anti war people who will cry about the innocent Afgans killed. And, as mentioned earlier, tens ( probably hundreds) of thousands of women in Afganistan can now live a real human life.
So please consider this as you call the United States a global bully, because what the US has done is saved millions of innocent people all around the world who would be killed in future terrorist attacks had we not bombed Afganitan.
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This is my opinion, I'm sorry if it offended you.
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