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Originally Posted by
2Quills http:///forum/thread/385466/obama-to-address-nation/80#post_3381554
Darth, my comment wasn't about validating a plot to kill Americans or training people to do it. There is no excuse for that in my eyes. But you cannot deny that our government has played no roll in his creation. We trained him, gave him guns & ammo and then turned out backs when we were done and let him run wild. It's another case of our government sticking our noses in somebody elses fight. If it wasn't for us the russians probably would have smoked his ass a long time ago. My comment was more about understanding than it was about validation. So no, I see no reason to celebrate the fact that we let the genie out of the bottle so to speak. As a result many innocent Americans lost their lives because we didn't contain it. That's just how I see it. I am glad that he himself is no longer a concern in the fact that it's one less terrorist out there, but to me it's not something to raise our hands about and say look what we did.
I agree that since obama is meeting with the victims of 9/11 that he should at least offer the victims families a private viewing of the sensitive material in a controlled environment. Maybe it would give some people the long awaited closure that they need. I don't believe that the rest of the world needs to get their hands on such things, nothing good would come of it. People are going to say what they say and believe what they want to believe anyways so who cares, let them.
Question: If I bought a dog and trained that dog to be a stone cold killer in the ring, discarded the dog when I no longer needed or wanted it and then turned it loose in the neighborhood where it got a hold of a kid down the street and killed the kid...who would you blame? The dog?
The difference between the dog and Osama, is Osama was already a killer, he had already fought in wars and had been doing it for years......So the analagy is not the same.
I understand your point......However, we as a nation have global interests that directly (even though some may not see it)affect our citizens here at home. So do we march off to war everytime those interests are threatened, or do we assist the locals during the battle? Or option 3. Do nothing and hope the citizens at home understand....Osama is the one time time those trained by us have turned around and actually harmed our citizens....Our training him and his rebels at the time did not give him the tools to commit acts of terror..(He was doing this in Afghanistan before we intervened against the Russians). All we did is provide better weapons to do it with. Were those weapons used against us in 9/11? No. were any tactics we trained them in used against us in 9/11? No.
I seriously grow tired of hearing we created this terrorist. He was a Terrorist before, during, and after our assistance against the Russians.....We did not create him....we did not empower him, we did not give him the means to do that. He already had them..............
