but they are a terribly fundamentalist repressive threat to our security in 2001?

BTW, did you see how they treat their women?

So we'll find an ally in a group that has executed 3000 prisoners in the past.

We must make do with what we have.
Fascinating. Truly fascinating.

I mean, it would be hard to imagine us doing anything worse than what we've done.


To quote your sig back at you.
If competence is considered "hubris" then may I and my country always be as "arrogant" as we can possibly manage.
I see "hubris" and "arrogant" but I don't see "competence" in this little history. Maybe you might try replacing "competence" with "ignorance" in your sig.