Haloface
11-25-2008, 02:55 AM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7747145.stm
- The failure of Afghanistan should be our legacy, not Iraq.
Iraq was a sideshow of imperialism; it is in Afghanistan that we were justified, and it makes our failure all the more glaring.
Surely the invasions of 2001-3 show how truly wrong our policy was in the period after 9/11.
(And I never get tired of saying "I told you so")
- The failure of Afghanistan should be our legacy, not Iraq.
Iraq was a sideshow of imperialism; it is in Afghanistan that we were justified, and it makes our failure all the more glaring.
Surely the invasions of 2001-3 show how truly wrong our policy was in the period after 9/11.
(And I never get tired of saying "I told you so")