shock and awe was something to behold-eh?
perfect situation to break out stealth technology....
It wasn't enough. We shouldn't have committed a single troop. We should have just said, "enough, you are gone." And removed them from the map and turned a bunch if sand into glass. We would have taken a bunch of political flack, which we took anyway, and Iran and N. Korea would be much more compliant today.
Don’t blame them. That’s what happens when the US government overthrows an Iranian elected president and props up their own Nazi dictator who terrorized and murdered his own people backed by the cia....people eventually had enough and rose up...these policies only create radicalism and extremism and intense hatred towards Americans.
I’m with our Founding Fathers, no foreign entanglements....they warned us of all this.
Yeah, that theory worked out well for us.in WWII and your favorite conspiracy involving the trade towers. Foreign wars that we ignore have a tendency to show up at our doorstep.
But to your point, if people eventually have enough and rise up - then why the F don't they rise up and take care of their own sh*t? Why didn't they rise up against Sadam? Why aren't they rising up in China and N Korea? If people start rising up and taking care of their own sh*t I would say great, let them do it. But when we don't help they attack us for staying out of it and when we do, they attack us for getting into it. Some people just want to watch the world burn and will blame whoever they think has control.
I wonder what the people who were told not to show up at work that morning know?
Um, if you were in the middle of creating a big conspiracy, would you save the people who had info that you didn't want out there? I seriously question your understanding of strategy, haha.
On a side note, my mom ran a bunch of real estate offices in 2001 and one of her agents had taken a middle eastern family around to look at a bunch of houses a few weeks prior to 9/11. During this time you would go to a realtor for help and sign a paper contract with them, which they would keep in a filing cabinet. Usually the realtors would use a big paper book that was mailed to them every month and this was the MLS. That book had all the current listings in it. The MLS was just starting to mail 3.5" floppy disks that contained the info, and it came on like 10 disks and was cumbersome to use so they often just used the book.
There were no internet connections.
The broker would create a list of houses from the book, call up the listing broker and schedule an appointment to show it - under the agent's name and not their client's name. The only person who knew what houses were being shown and who they were being shown to was that agent making the calls.
So this agent had shown about a half dozen homes to this middle eastern family and thought nothing of it. On 9/12 the FBI shows up in my mom's office looking to talk to the agent. The agent didn't even realize that all those homes were in close proximity to a nuclear power plant in the area. How the FBI knew she was working with the family or which homes she showed has always made me wonder...they had to have been following them is the only explanation I have.