The failure to anticipate the enemy's tactics in Iraq is a big failure. We should foreseen that they would start going around to the homes of anyone that cooperated in keeping the lights on or the country running and kill their famlies. We should have foreseen that our standard practice of handing out candy to children would be used by our enemies as an opportunity to kill chidren. We should have foreseen that allowing people to have boxcutters on airplanes would give our enemies the chance to cut the throats of the stewardess's and pilots to take over airplanes and crash them into buildings.
We should have but we didn't. We are handicapped by being civilized men and so have trouble anticipating what our enemies will do in novel circumstances. But the fact that in confronting our enemies we have been met with horrors that no civilized human being would have imagined should not be used as an argument for not confronting them. It is because we cannot anticipate what monsters will do that we must not wait, we must not sit back and wait for the next attack, because they will find a way. Their depravity gives them a source of innovation that we cannot and should not hope to match. The fact that the enemy comes up with new ways to hurt us that we can never anticipate is not a reason to wait, it is reason that we should aggressively seek them out and kill them first.
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no anticipation was needed - only reading a bit of history - things like that have happened all over the world when colonizing a country oops (ask the British or the French). but then USA is too great to look at other countries' experiences...
a more important question is however why are these people "biting the hand that feeds them"
Well, are "these people" the people of Iraq? If so then you are certainly right. But the polls we have of public opinion in Iraq puts public support for the militants in a tiny minority. The terrorists are trying to stop the elections after all. People don't try to stop elections they think they can win.
"polls" ?!?
hmm, let's see maybe done over the phone that doesn't work, or maybe internet, or maybe they asked people on the street (with a gun in hand): "do you support whom and whom". Pretty sure these "polls" are representative of what people really think. Get real Dr. Reinhard, try to think before you write stuff like this.
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