Reply #94: Yes, exactly! Where millions of regular, non-terrorist people reside. [View All]

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Yes... millions of regular real people reside along with a few members of Al Qaeda-- who also reside in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and (or so we've been told) in pretty much every country in the whole wide world. So perhaps we should, oh, I don't know--.unilaterally strike the whole world? I'm sure the disaster capitalists appreciate your concern.

Or maybe we shouldn't fall for this shit again. We don't need to send 100,000 troops to Pakistan. Many people don't even know why we have troops in Afghanistan anymore, considering the fantastic job we've done rounding up innocent taxi drivers and goat herders and sending them off to Gitmo.

Maybe we should listen to the ex-British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, a lovely little man with gold-rimmed glasses who was quietly horrified when he discovered that the UK and the US are using Uzbeks to round up innocent people and forcing these people to sign confessions, to say that they "know" fabricated terrorists (people the US wants? people the Uzbekis want to harm? arbitrary people to puff up the lists? who knows...) in nations around the world they've never set foot in because they're nothing but poor farmers. Don't believe me? Here ya go: http://www.amazon.com/Murder-Samarkand-Craig-Murray/dp/1845961943/ref=pd_bbs_sr_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203306719&sr=8-5

Even if a pre-emptive strike took out every member of Al-Qaeda in Pakistan, would it do much more than radicalize the remaining Al-Qaeda? Would another group emerge? Al-Nexta? We are not fighting an enemy; we're fighting a concept. Instead of using a bigger army, maybe fighting with better concepts would do the trick. We don't need 4000 martyrs. We need to help stabilize their democracy.