Reply #3: We needed to respond to 9/11 with the following steps [View All]

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1. Invade Afghanistan with overwhelming ground force to remove the
Taliban and arrest Bin Laden.

2. We needed to create a $100B program to develop and DEPLOY
the technology to remove us from fossil fuel...

3. We needed to immediate up the tax on gasoline to pay for #2.

4. We needed to immediately increase the fleet standard for MPG
AS A STOP GAP until #2.

5. We needed to tell the Kingdom "sorry guys, you are on your own
now" and removed our troops from Saudi Arabia

6. We needed to tell Israel "sorry guys, it's time you made some
sort of peace deal that deals with the Palistinians... we'll help,
but you don't have a lot of time on this"

7. We needed to keep the inspectors in Iraq, and tell Iraq that
IF they didn't cooperate, what they see happening in Afghanistan
would happen to them next.

That's about it.