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Originally Posted by lostalex
If a major attack on America was organized in Pakistan and the PAkistani's were protecting them, then ofcourse we should attack Pakistan, and unlike Afghanistan, we shouldn't waste our time afterwards trying to build hospitals and schools, we should just annihilate them. And they'd deserve it.
You'd disagree?
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The US knew that Al Quaeda had carried out the attack. They didnt know exactly where the attacks were planned, they probably still dont. They did know that Afghanistan housed a large number of Al Quaeda training camps.
But then again there were also training camps in Syria, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and numerous other Midlle Eastern countries. Not all received the support of the governments they were in. In some cases they were set up and run covertly and illegally in the host country.
If they later obtained evidence that they were actually planned round a campfire in Pakistan and not Afghanistan, would they announce it to the world, pull their troops out of Afghanistan apologise and make restitution to the Afghan people and the Taliban? Then invade Pakistan and occupy it just as they did Afghanistan?
Or would whichever administration was in power at the time simply bury it?
Lets face it, the fact that Afghanistan housed a large number of training camps was politically convenient to the US. Didnt the Bush administration try to make a link between Al Quaeda and Saddam Hussein in order to push forward with invasion plans for Iraq?