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Bush Doctrine on Target

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Capitalism contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction.

Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda were primarily responsible for financing the terrorist training camps in Afghanistan. Other than training the hijackers, they had little to do with the actual attack on 9/11. Today, Osama is either dead or incapacitated.

The real culprits of 9/11 were the same crowd who tried to blow up the WTO in 1993, attempted to assassinate the pope and stage airplane hijackings from the Philippines in January 1995, and masterminded the Oklahoma City bombing in April of that year. The leaders of this gang of thugs were Ramsey Yousef and Khalid Sheik Mohammed, both with ties to Iraq and possibly receiving financial aid from bin Laden and his family. This is also corroborated by bin Laden's own statement in 2001 that those responsible for 9/11 acted as free independent agents.

The administration of George W. Bush did not want to implicate Iraq because that would have shown how stupid it really was to attack Saddam's forces after the Kuwait invasion in 1991. Still, there remains a clear trail of blood leading out of Iraq between 1991 and 2001.

America has clearly stopped terrorism in its tracks. All that is left to do now is orderly withdrawals of US and NATO forces from Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Torture Pro-Choice Politicians?

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The rationale for using enhanced interrogation techniques on terrorism suspect detainees is to obtain valuable information that may save lives. But if it's OK to torture to prevent killing by terrorists insurgents abroad, why do we not also allow the torture of politicians who promote killing children unjustly by abortion? Would not a little water-boarding be enough to save many millions of American lives by deterring future acts of homicide?

The objection is that immoral means can never be used to accomplish ends. However, our society is already accustomed to capital punishment. If we execute certain types of criminals, is it always wrong to torture?
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