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Entry: The Pentagon Needs a Choreographer Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_pentagon_needs_a_choreographer#33224 Post contents: "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." All right I'll give you that, but again, bin Laden's al Qaida has been broken up and its remnants have fled to the tribal areas of Pakistan. There's really nothing else to blow up and the illiterates in Gitmo probably won't make for very good copy. So again, all the choreography in the world won't paper over the bitter fact that 9/11 as a horribly, spectacularly successful criminal conspiracy carried out by 25 men, 19 of whom died in the planes they commandeered. I suppose points were scored by deposing the Taliban but that is questionable as well. The strategy from this point, therefore, would appear to be political rather than military. This won't satiate the visceral need for revenge (justified or not), but it increasingly appears to be the only option. (Of course, the US cannot actually do the things that will actually prevent a second terrorist attack without violating its own social democratic charters which is why we're engaged in these Wilsonian crusades to begin with, but that's another rant.) Sent at: 2008 11 20