Your post is pretty good, but you have some sentiment wrong, I think. First, it isn't chasing Bin Laden that has us upset. It's by the means Bush does it. He gave Bin Laden (The Bin Laden group having given millions to Bush and the Bath party for years) a two month head start. Then he sends inadequate forces into Afghanistan to "get Bush". Riiiight. Like he is trying? At one time, it was said there were more cops in New York alone than in all of Afghanistan.

Pakistan did not attack us on 9/11. It was a saudi arabian (a country we give upwards of 700 billion dollars a year is it for oil?) who worked out of and fled to Afghanistan. Sure, he might be in Pakistan NOW, but then we don't really know. We DID know, but Bush let him get away. At the time, Bin Laden had no place to go. We had the world behind us and their sympathy. But Bush decided to attack a sovereign nation that posed no threat to the US. In doing so, we lost world support. Except the brits. The guy who supported us, Tony Blair,  lost his job, and so should have Bush. Sure, there are a few countries with some troops there -- mostly to babysit us, or as a part of the UN treaty. But nobody wants to be there. We have the majority of troops there and have accepted most of the casualties and the cost of the war. Far greater tolls than 9/11 was. For the record, Bush has killed far more people than Bin Laden has.

We let the guy who attacked the US on 9/11 get away. Then we attack a country in pretty much the same fashion Bin Laden attacked us -- using airplanes and killing innocent people. Each one of the 20 or 25 people we killed in Pakistan is going to breed tenfold amount of people that hate us, and each one of those has a chance to be the next islamic extremist hell bent on our destruction. Each one a chance to be the next OBL.

The idea here is not to keep pissing off other countries. At one time, Bin Laden was such a hot potato, no country wanted him! He had to flee his own homeland and find refuge in Afghanistan, because his own country would have given him up! Now, nobody cares to help us. They think we deserve it. Why? The Bush Doctrine.

The same doctrine Palin knows NOTHING ABOUT! I could post (probably have on another post, if you bother to look) the interview where she is asked about the doctrine three (I think?) times, and gives a wrong answer, and evasive answer and the the same answer again as if it makes her look smart. Or Presidential. She also manages to say how she would go to war with Russia and Iran even though her running mate, McCain said he would NOT go to war with Russia. Do you honestly think she is a good choice? Or our course of action, threatening countries, attacking as we see fit... INVADING and KILLING INNOCENTS makes us better than Bin Laden or going to help us catch him or gain world favor?

We had a chance to get Bin Laden before 9/11. The Republicans fought Clinton on it and he admittedly failed. But he tried. Bush had 8 months after taking office, and he did nothing. He was even given a document titled "Bin Laden determined to attack inside the United States" and what did Bush do? He went on vacation. For the record, Bush has surpassed the longest vaction time of any President while in office. Previous record held by Reagan. Yet some people wonder why I cannot stand to have another politician in office.

You question MY patriotism and then say shame on ME? It was me you were talking to? Or Business? Both? Shame on YOU! People who look blindly by and not see what is happening to our country -- not recognizing it being torn apart by Bush and McCain. I spend so many hours a day researching, watching, reading whatever I can about politics and what is going on in the world. Look at the times of my posts. I don't sleep. Why? I am so fucking worried about the state we are in. The world. The direction this country is heading. It's scary.

If you were half as patriotic as I am, you would do what you could to defeat evil -- BUSH! You would do whatever you could to see his policies die when he leaves office, and not more of the same with McCain. Shame on YOU for not being a responsible and patriotic American to do something about it. Do something before we are in world war 3 with Iraq, Iran, Russia, China, North Korea and now Pakistan. But maybe that's what we need to do. That way you can feel more patriotic.

We've had longer than that. Our involvement in the Gulf War started putting us on their shit lists and while that was an international effort and something I believe we needed to do, we should never have set up military bases in Saudi Arabia. Even if their government consented then, it was blatantly obvious our presence would have alienated the locals. And indeed, Bin Laden himself has stated that as a reason for his actions against us. Us pulling out of Saudi Arabia recently is one of the best moves we've made in the War on Terror but anything gained from that is quickly being lost with this Pakistan thing.

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Oh yeah. Just read about this shit. A CIA-ordered strike killed 13-18 Pakistani civilians. Can you imagine what we would do if a foreign government authorized a strike within US borders that killed 13-18 American civilians? Pakistani response to this is downright subtle - probably since they know there's not much they can do against us. The problem is, as other people in the region realize this, general animosity against us will increase. And if they can't fight us through conventional warfare, guess what the alternative is...

seems like the stage is being set, eh?

Hopefully it doesn't blow up. Pakistan is one of the few friends we have in the area. If we alienate them now it will make it that much easier for terrorist networks to recruit out of that country. And the more we offend Pakistani civilians, the more they'll start looking the other way regarding terrorists within their borders. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, after all.

And I didn't realize the body count for the prior strike was now 20+...

Okay see what I did there? I used sarcasm.

I think I scared myself a little bit though.

I think a little pee came out.

 

I dunno. 50 years is a long time in this age, considering it just takes a moment to launch.

But people have wanted to see the US get a taste of their own medicine since we nuked Japan. Twice.

Then also consider Israel. That would be my guess. Pakistan has nukes and they are just too close to Iran, Syria.

 

Consider it's over a 50 yr period. But I would think Israel gets it first, as stated.