How do you NOT see that is making things safer? You are blind by your ignorance or lack of knowledge and get too wrapped up in the bullshit that is put out in the media. My friends didn't die in vain. They signed up for a reason and had no problem going overseas to take out Tier 1 & 2 terrorists. But I guess that's the difference between Conventional Forces and SOF.
NSA and CIA had no real way of telling exactly how many there where prior to or at the time of 9/11. The terrorists were always there, committing their acts long before the US coming in to the picture. Ethnic cleansing, tribe vs tribe, Sunni vs Shiite and so on...
Yes, Saddam was an evil tyrant and needed to be taken out and should have when we had our first chance prior to 2006, when he was finally executed. And yes, I am aware of all the bullshit conspiracy theories about the first Iraq war and how it was started over oil and then WMD being used as a reason.
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There's never going to be world peace and I tend to stay out of these types of conversations and politics because, well, opinions are like assholes, everybody has one and it always turns ugly. I've said my piece so I am done now with this. Say what you want or mock me or try to prove me wrong, if that's what makes you feel better, because I really don't give a shit.
The US ambassador did give Saddam permission. It isn't a conspiracy. It's a matter of record. We did give Saddam chemical weapons. It's not a conspiracy. We did arm Saddam to fight a proxy war with Iran, because Iran removed the puppet government we installed in a coup. It's a matter of record. HW and James Baker, the defense secretary at the time wrote a point paper on why they didn't remove Saddam. They spelled out exactly what would happen if we destabilized the region. It happened exactly as they stated it would once we invaded Iraq. We never found nuclear material in Iraq and the chemical weapons we found had already been declared to UN weapons inspectors AND WE GAVE THEM TO HIM. These are facts. Matters of record. Not conspiracies.
We created the terrorist you took out. Sorry, that's just the reality. I know learning that your country created many of the problems that we use our military to fight is hard to swallow, but it's the truth, whether in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc... or in Central and South America, we've created the majority of the problems that we face in foreign policy. History isn't a conspiracy. We did these things. We supported many armed coups from Iran to the tip of South America, we've armed and put in power a majority of the brutal tyrants that we later violently removed. Freedom fighters that we trained and armed to fight our proxy wars have become the terrorists that we fight today. This is all basic history, not conspiracies.
We aren't safer today than we were in 2000. You can look up the number of American's killed every year by terrorists. Again, not a conspiracy, just basic facts. I used to be ignorant of basic historical facts and a flag waver. Then the military spent lots of money to send me to college and the war college. You learn the truth. It has nothing to do with the media. Crazy, the point of education is to try to keep from repeating the same mistakes, it isn't to make people hate their country. Rational adults can still love their country and understand that we created a lot of our own problems. Hypernationalism, which is what you're exhibiting is dangerous. The my country is always right attitude allows governments to do a lot of immoral and illegal things with full support of their population. It causes wars. That isn't a conspiracy, that a basic knowledge of history.
And this is off topic, so there should be some latitude in discussion. Basic history and facts aren't political.
