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Entry: The Pentagon Needs a Choreographer Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_pentagon_needs_a_choreographer#33198 Post contents: Red, I can see it now, September 12th, 2001: "Fellow Americans, we deserved these murderous attacks. We've offended the sacred Islamic holy places by placing our Christian feet upon their sands. We have stationed troops there to protect our long term friends the Saudis from an attack by Saddam Hussein. And we even had the temerity to protect international shipping in the Persian Gulf. We gave money to the evil Israelis (and Palestinians and Egyptians too). We are going to comply with all of al Qaeda's demands immediately and withdraw all of our forces from the Persian Gulf region and do whatever else al Qaeda wants." There's a cost of not inflicting revenge. There's a cost of allowing oneself to be bullied. Nothing we did in the Middle East justified the 9/11 attacks. We should seek long-term arms-length engagement, but we have every right morally and out of self-interst to give the folks who did this a good wallop. Otherwise, we'll be at the mercy of whoever wants to make a demand with some force against us. It's not like people only use force against us or others justly, you know. Sent at: 2008 12 02