wow... ok, umm
where to begin...
yes, France and several Members of the UN. then a vocal minority of american citizens who are generally opposed to
any form of military action have picked up on it, because it
is a somewhat effective argument, and has also turned out to be 'spinnable'. several of thoes fellows whom happen to be my fellow Libartarians, unfortunately... *sigh*
Alis, you've been duped by consperacy theorists. I had an aquantence die in the pentagon. he was 3/4 of the way around the 'circle' from the point of impact on the Pentagon. The damage was much greater than was visible from the outside, beleave me. the building burned for several days afterward. i've seen pictures, personal pictures taken by a couple of my fellow shipmates, of the aftermath.... ones which i certanly will never share publicly, and the Pentagon will most certainly never release.
The unfortunate side effect of enforcing security, and being sensitive to both the families of thoes who've died and not showing graphic pictures publicly, is... consperacy theories. ahh, what would we do without thoes wonderful cookes running around thinging that the US government is after them personally and that "they" are trying to pull the wool over our collective eyes? keeps government officials honest (for the most part) at least.
Bin Ladin... ehrm. your facts are incorrect.
the CIA knew of and had been tracking Bin Ladin to the best of their ability for several years prior to 9/11. Several attempts were made to get the upper echelon which made up Al Queda (sp?) prior to both Afganistan and Iraq.
We (as a Nation, Government, Institution (CIA, NSA, Naval intelligence, [forget what the Army calls their intel branch], FBI, and Justice depatrment to name a few), and Military
should have known that Al Queda wouldn't stop, especcially after the bombing of the USS Cole (another aquantace lost... another set of gruesome pictures that i'll never forget). Then add on to that the bombings of US embassies in South East Africa...
All this was and still
is a 'scandal' post 9/11... but the fact is, until we were attacked at home, the political will to really go get thoes guys just wasn't there. It was basic Police work and undercover 'spy craft' up to that point. Still is, in many respects. Heck, the whole FBI was overhauled, and the CIA had a large portion of itself (along with several other agencies) re-engineered into the Homeland Defence Agency.
Look, I understand where your coming from. Fo rthe most part, some Media has warped several facts to suit their porposes. This happens all the time, and yes, it's happened on both sides (Conservative and Liberal), which just makes everything worse. you have to be more discriminating, and attempt to take a wider view of the world. Turkey has it tough. your right on the border of Iraq, yall have to deal with ethnic tensions within the reagon that, at times, severely impact your Country directly, from what I understand you have a large contingent of both Arab and Persean people, and Sunni and Shiia Muslem's... That's not easy to deal with, especially when your trying to maintain a friendship with what some consider to be the 'evil' US. Oh, and can't forget to include maintaining an alliance with an historic competeter ( which is Greece, for thoes who don't know ).
very tough position to be in.
for what its worth, your country is cool though. loved visiting Aksas. (probably spelled that wrong. south western port town. yall have alot of your own Navy their).
anyway, thats enough for one post...