US kills two top leaders of terror group that attacked Kenya mall

[Maedhros]

273. I am unconvinced that you actually care about starving people other than as a rhetorical cudgel.

However, the UN has the means to take action to protect the aid groups and should. You have not made the case that dropping Hellfire missiles on suspected "terrorists" will result in foreign aid reaching those starving people.

The attacks on 9/11 originated from within the United States. The al Qaeda operatives were in the country, taking lessons on how to fly commercial jet liners. FBI agents had identified many of them, and in one case an agent was rooming with one of the 9/11 perpetrators. Many efforts by the agents involved to communicate what they were learning up the chain of command were thwarted by the Bush Administration. The case cannot be made that military intervention in Afghanistan in, say, 2000 would have prevented 9/11.