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Originally posted by Cam
Preemptive strikes against Iraq would come after we warned him to disarm. Bin Ladin attacked us without any official warning. The US on the other hand has gone to the UN and asked that Saddam be forced to disarm. That is a major difference.
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I disagree that the difference is that major. We won't anounce our targets to Iraqi citizens and those that are in or near the targets will be maimed and killed just like those in the trade towers. Many more will die later as direct and indirect results of infrastructure destruction. The government didn't anounce the attack on Lybia or the one on Sudan. Sure, in this case, we went to the UN and said basicily, "If you don't do things our way the hell with you." The purpose of the UN was to foster debate and compromise instead of war not to rubber stamp America's wars. In anycase the government has to keep up appearances in certain instances, Bin Ladin doesn't.
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We have never initiated conflict by attacking citizens. The Pentagon may be considered a military installation and therefore could be considered vulnerable to a first strike. The World Trade Center on the other hand was targeted without prior conflict, or even warning, with the sole intention of killing as many civilians as possible. [/b]
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That is not true, for example, in addition to Lybia and the Sudan, many civilians were killed when we invaded Panama to get Noriagia and Panama had not even threatened attack on the US. There hasn't been a single forgien war, with the possible exception of WWII, that we haven't joined or started with lies about threats and deception concern actions on the part of potential targeted peoples. Most of these wars and interventions were fought for the benifit of certain companies, United Fruit, or industries, Oil. I'd like to know how you know that the "sole intention" of bombing the trade towers was to kill civilians, and had nothing to do with the disruption of the US and World capitalist economy? Do you have some inside information from Al Quaida?