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America playing defense

Who is on the run in war with Al Qaeda

  • America is on the run

    Votes: 9 50.0%
  • Al Qaeda is on the run

    Votes: 9 50.0%

  • Total voters
    18
We've ALWAYS been playing defense. What the hell do you think the Patriot Act, and TSA, and NSA surveillance is all about?

We played offense when we bombed UBL training camps and too on the Taliban in Afghanistan. Drone bombings and getting UBL were offense but this embassy retreat is defense and we have been on defense since we didn't send help during Benghazi and didn't retaliate after Benghazi.
 
No one, it's stagnate, which is the point. You cannot have infinity war if any one side wins. How else are we to funnel billions of dollars into the companies that support the Republocrats while using fear tactics to keep the People in line, expand powers of government against our rights and privacy, kill off thousands of Americans, and accomplish nothing for the people and everything for the betterment of the aristocracy?

UBL's stated goal was to run us out of Arab lands, he just succeeded.
 
Tell me what you would have preferred.

I would have preferred we hardened our embassies after the Benghazi fiasco and when we got these recent terror threats we battened down the hatches and said "take your best shot". After they took their best shot I would rain Holy Hell on them like we should have done after Benghazi.
 
I would have preferred we hardened our embassies after the Benghazi fiasco and when we got these recent terror threats we battened down the hatches and said "take your best shot". After they took their best shot I would rain Holy Hell on them like we should have done after Benghazi.

So instead of taking security precautions and waiting until the threat has been neutralized we should have turned our embassies (somehow) into fortified outposts and hoped that a truck bomb didn't roll into them? And then if it did we'll just rain holy hell 'on them'? This does not sound like a sound strategy.
 
So instead of taking security precautions and waiting until the threat has been neutralized we should have turned our embassies (somehow) into fortified outposts and hoped that a truck bomb didn't roll into them? And then if it did we'll just rain holy hell 'on them'? This does not sound like a sound strategy.

Heya Sherman :2wave: Well.....what do you think the Strategy was that was employed by the Brits? Did they close down all their Embassies? Did they close down from doing business throughout an entire region of the world?
 
Heya Sherman :2wave: Well.....what do you think the Strategy was that was employed by the Brits? Did they close down all their Embassies? Did they close down from doing business throughout an entire region of the world?

They withdrew their staff from Yemen and reduced staff elsewhere. We are a larger target than the British and apparently the threats were rather well developed and specific to us.
 
They withdrew their staff from Yemen and reduced staff elsewhere. We are a larger target than the British and apparently the threats were rather well developed and specific to us.

Yes they did.....but not for the entire region. Which they have embassies in and mostly every same country we do, in that region of the world. Also the Chatter was about the US and other Western Interests. Not specifically to just us.

Which technically the French Interpol was picking up things from those that had broken out of prisons in the region for the last two weeks.
 
it's a tactical move of the game chess.
US will win.
 
it's a tactical move of the game chess.
US will win.

Heya Coin. :2wave: Yeah eventually we will win.....but who has control of the situation for the next month and half now? :shock:
 
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