Have we won the War on Terrorism?

[Bauce]

Any thread about the war on terror and diplomatic matters requires an eventual Peter Dow related detour. Check the rules, it's in there somewhere.

[broken robot]

I'm just saying Peter Dow is a lounge topic. My interjection though was limited, by all means carry on.

[Bauce]

I think the Dow thing has run its course as well. I'd try to steer this thread back on topic but I've forgotten what the topic is.

[broken robot]

Well someone can take a stab at the brief convo non started and to which spider and I responded.

[eynon81]

Meh. Eynon's right. Spider's point is worthless. All he did was point out that we spend trillions of dollars on non-war things, that Al-Qaeda doesn't have a good reputation, and that we roughed them.

Everyone already knows that and none of it negates Eynon's main point that they were able to goad us into a hugely self destructive overreaction with minimal resources.

[eynon81]

[eynon81]

[exploited]

The sad part is that everybody paying attention was warning 'Mericans about the AQ strategy literally days after 911. Alas...

[Bauce]

[exploited]

Totally understandable but I was hoping that the people who get paid to stay cool would have.