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I've been wanting to ask this of you guys for awhile.
Don't you think we would have had all the Islamic fundamentalists drawn to Afghanistan once we ousted the Taliban there? Much the same as when the Soviets occupied that country? I am not military and don't claim to be, but would like your opinions as I agree that something needed done after 9/11. Everything I've looked at both before the Iraq war and since then has only shown one piece of possible evidence linking Iraq to Al-queda (medical aid for a terrorist from AQ).
I just think that anyone with a beef with the US would have readily went to Afghanistan as they would to Iraq. I think we had every right to go to Afghanistan to track down our attackers, but now we've seen the highest opium production on record and the Taliban is making somewhat of a comeback. We had world support with Afghanistan but pretty much stirred up a hornets nest with Iraq. Not trying to argue Iraq too much, just think Afghanistan would have accomplished similar things.
I just feel we could have done everything in Afghanistan that supporters of the Iraq war use to justify that war (except oust Saddam).
On a side note, with the Axis of Evil speech, we seemed a bit hypocritical since we know North Korea has nukes but we aren't about to attack them directly with them being so close to Russia and China.
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