37g joe
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Originally Posted by Dogstar
IMO, that war was/is the problem. Osama BinLadin wanted to use his al-qaeda forces from Afganistan, that had fought against Russia, supported by the US and Reagan, to defend Saudi Arabia from Iraq, instead they/SA asked America and so here we are...."" imagine al-qaeda against Iraq in a war to defend Saddi Arabia with US training and support "".....Now I dont know if there was any attempt to incorperate them or appease them in any way at the time to ease his anger over this but I can only guess not or not enough...I can not say what would be like today if things would have been done a little different then but maybe Joe can, he may know what it says under all those blacked out lines............. Joe?
Maybe I am hearing this wrong but are you saying you feel that al qaeda would of become our allies if we had offerd some sort of olive branch. All these conflicts with islamic terroism against the U.S goes all the way back to 1801 with the barbary wars in tripoli. The pasha had been extorting money from us with the threat of having pirats attack us if we did not pay his tribute. We paid but then he started getting even more gready and demanded an increase to his ($83,000) which the US government had been paying since 1796. We refused and started a naval blockade of tripoli. The war lasted four years. We lost the frigate Philadelphia the captain and crew where kidnapped and held ransom. the war ended in 1805 we met the $60,000 ransom and the pasha ended his demands of tribute.
Thier is alot more history involved then most people know.
IMO, that war was/is the problem. Osama BinLadin wanted to use his al-qaeda forces from Afganistan, that had fought against Russia, supported by the US and Reagan, to defend Saudi Arabia from Iraq, instead they/SA asked America and so here we are...."" imagine al-qaeda against Iraq in a war to defend Saddi Arabia with US training and support "".....Now I dont know if there was any attempt to incorperate them or appease them in any way at the time to ease his anger over this but I can only guess not or not enough...I can not say what would be like today if things would have been done a little different then but maybe Joe can, he may know what it says under all those blacked out lines............. Joe?
Maybe I am hearing this wrong but are you saying you feel that al qaeda would of become our allies if we had offerd some sort of olive branch. All these conflicts with islamic terroism against the U.S goes all the way back to 1801 with the barbary wars in tripoli. The pasha had been extorting money from us with the threat of having pirats attack us if we did not pay his tribute. We paid but then he started getting even more gready and demanded an increase to his ($83,000) which the US government had been paying since 1796. We refused and started a naval blockade of tripoli. The war lasted four years. We lost the frigate Philadelphia the captain and crew where kidnapped and held ransom. the war ended in 1805 we met the $60,000 ransom and the pasha ended his demands of tribute.
Thier is alot more history involved then most people know.
