Reply #8: Before the war in Afghanistan I said

[GumboYaYa]

that we would bomb rubble to dust, kill a bunch of people (most of them innocent) and never catch Osama bin Laden. I always felt the right response was to declare a plan to rid the US of dependency on Middle East oil (we only have to increase average fuel efficiency by 3mpg to do that)and draw on the resources and sympathy of the world to catch Osama through police efforts.

Your plan did not work. What makes you so sure mine would not. At leats the US would not have been creating recruiting posters for Al Qaeda if we had taken a more reasoned response designed to achieve our goals. Instead we chose revenge and our soldiers are still dying in Afghanistan. Osama lives and gets stronger every day.

It may seem idealistic to you, but to me it looks like I am the one who had a more realistic view of the world.