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Entry: The Pentagon Needs a Choreographer Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_pentagon_needs_a_choreographer#33223 Post contents: I'm not talking about Iraq. I'm talking in general about the war against al Qaeda, specifically GITMO and the attack on al Qaeda's bases in Afghanistan, in responding to Red Phillips. No one from Iraq, so far as I know, is at GITMO. I also never said that nothing we did had an impact on why we were attacked; it clearly did. The question is was it morally justified. It was not, even though we should not needlessly antagonize al Qaeda or anyone else internationally. The goal is to prevent attacks, once again. A secondary quesiton is whether our first response should have been to pull back to the borders or avenge the attacks. I say the latter. In other words, our war in Afghanistan and the associated imprisoning of suspected al Qaeda is defensible and those who say otherwise are naive and don't understand the anarchic and violent inherent nature of international relations. Please re-read my comments and try to notice something called qualifying language. You are misrepresenting what I wrote and it's plain to see. I realize you'd rather talk about Iraq, because the pacifist position on al Qaeda exposes the left and the anti-American right as nihilistic and naive. Also, please stick to the discussion and don't personalize it. Indeed, shouldn't you volunteer for the Border Patrol according to your tired "chickenhawk" reasoning? Sent at: 2008 12 02