EconChick
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I didn't contend you had made that claim. I'm pointing out pre-emptive war is idiotic, couter-productive, and immoral. They haven't attacked the US, so by attacking them, the US is goading them into doing it. It's circular reasoning, and a self-fulfilling prophecy.Ok, so Isis hasn't attacked the US, just like Iraq hadn't attacked the US.You remind me of all the myopics in govt I used to try to warn before AQ hit in 2001. No I never, nor did anyone, predict they'd use planes or do what they did. What some of us could clearly see though that they had a very clear trajectory of action over the years and the next one was going to be spectacular and we knew it would hurt American interests. Some of us are experts at doing trend analysis certain things. ISIS will have an upward trajectory as well.
You remind me of "the smoking gun may be a mushroom cloud" Cheney. Sure, "trajectories". What USFG assets has ISIS attacked? What attacks have they done on the U.S.? Until they do, they're not our problem.
You remind me of the lazy bureaucrats that said the same thing when those of us in the intel community warned the US would suffer a spectacular attack before 9/11. As I've caveated, we never predicted the specifics. But their resolve we got 100%. The resolve of ISIS is even stronger. Mark my words.
And Cheney is a genius; I can't help you lack the cerebral facilities to absorb it.
Show me where I said Iraq attacked us in that post?
Crickets.
And no, pre-emptive is not idiotic. I agree it doesn't make sense when you're thinking purely conventional - completely agree, but with what we're facing in these times, waiting to counter can be too late.