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Originally Posted by aceventura3
What about the one's who have declared war on us and are acting accordingly? Are you suggesting we are fighting a mythical enemy?
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Declaring war on us does not automatically make one a threat. I could declare war on the US right now and the FBI wouldn't be breaking down my door. The fact is that the Taliban were simply a regional source of instability back in 2001. They really weren't a threat to anyone but the people of Afghanistan. If you need evidence of this, go back and look at what our government did right after 9/11: we asked the Taliban nicely to hand over Bin Laden. We were happy to leave them be if they'd simply hand over someone virtually the entire world was pissed at. We had no intent to bomb or invade or "liberate", that came later, after they flatly denied our request. Our beef was with the small number of people at the time in what was later called al Qaeda.
We, Ace, are fighting "the terrorists". That's about as mythical as it can get.