Reply #15: I think war on terror is still hanging in the balance [View All]

[TheFarseer]

If we would not have invaded Iraq, if we would have stayed in Afghanistan and captured Osama bin Laden and cleaned out the remaining terrorist cells then we could have claimed victory and probably been as safe as we will ever be from terror. Now, I honestly don't know how this will turn out. Best case senario we have another Saudi Arabia, worst case we have a pre-9/11 Afghanistan. Had we left it at helping overthrow the Taliban we would also still have the "moral highground" and the respect of the world community. It's extremely unfortunate that that did not happen.

Iraq was not, nor did it need to become part of the war on terror. But now we have made it so and we have to live with that.