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Originally Posted by Ohio
Containment was a cold-war policy against the Soviets. Had they attacked the trade towers and the pentagon, we would have nuked all of Moscow.
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Iraq didn't attack the trade towers or the pentagon. Yet we invaded anyway, on the flimsiest of manufactured pretenses. That was not containment; that was aggression, pure and simple. And when U.S. personnel couldn't find anything, once in Iraq, to justify our aggression, we re-worded our mission: suddenly GW Bush decided the Iraqi invasion was about despotism and "freedom". If so, why not invade Cuba as well, and North Korea also? Not enough oil, there?
Again, the well-served 'containment' idea of "Don't attack us because if you do we can and will make you pay" became "We're having a crisis of self-confidence and need to attack someone".
And no, those comments were not related to the idea of "sloppy scholarship"; they were posted in affirmation of
ZNP's point that after 9/11 our leaders didn't repent, but became even more hardened, intransigent, and bellicose.