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> The Taliban offer to hand over bin Laden and George W. Bush refuses A bit disingenuous to say that and leave out that the most generous version of that offer
by khuey 2y ago
> The Taliban offer to hand over bin Laden and George W. Bush refuses
A bit disingenuous to say that and leave out that the most generous version of that offer was to hand Bin Laden over to a third country.
- jmyeet 2y agoSo what's the goal here? To exact vengeance on one individual? To remove his ability to further act in this capacity? Because what we chose instead was to spend $8 trillion on a 20 year war killing millions in Iraq and Afghanistan and still to objectively lose militarily, politically and in terms of the ability for the US to project power in the region. The Taliban control Afghanistan once again. All while doing absolutely nothing agains the actual regime that provided material support to the 9/11 hijackers, the same regime from which the majority of the 19 hijackers (and bin Laden himself) actually came from.
- khuey 2y agoNone of that has anything to do with what I said. You can make a damning case that the Bush administration's actions were pointless and self-destructive without the very misleading characterization of what the Taliban was offering, so why be disingenuous?
- aguaviva 2y ago20 year war killing millions in Iraq and Afghanistan Are you sure about the "millions" part? In you know, the factual sense? Or does it just feel like something neat to say, to get your point across?
- JetSpiegel 2y agoDo you doubt that a million iraquis died in the war that lasted almost a decade? How many people died in Ukraine or Gaza in a couple years?
- sitkack 2y agoHe'd still be in custody. How is what we have now better because he wasn't held by a third country?
- dgfitz 2y agoWould he? Any tips on sports gambling this week!?