After 9/11, there was much discussion of how foolish the Clinton Administration had been, pursuing a feeble "police" model of dealing with terrorists. After all, while all of the participants in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing except Osama bin Laden himself had been apprehended, and although the scheme which succeeded in 2001 was foiled in 1995, and although Clinton worked all the way to his last day in office (in spite of being distracted from his job by certain patriots) to shut down the al Qaeda racket, well, yeah, all that, but just wait, you'll see how much better a "military" approach to terrorist groups will work.
After the successful invasion and failed occupation of Afghanistan, some people questioned the wisdom of a solely military approach. After the successful invasion and failed occupation of Iraq, still more questions arose in still more minds.
And for those who really needed their noses rubbed in it, there has been the failed Israeli action in Lebanon.
So, are we ready now to stop playing with war toys and get down to work catching those criminals?
//The Magic Eight-Ball says, "Some do, and some do not."\\
1 comment:
Don't be silly. If we abandon a course of action that is clearly right just because it does not work, has never worked, and shows no prospect of ever work, we display our lack of faith. What would we get rid of next? The death penalty? Drug prohibition? No Child Gets Ahead - excuse me, I mean Left Behind?
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