news.com.au— BRITAIN joined the US in ousting the Taliban in 2001 because it feared America would "nuke the sh-t" out of Afghanistan, the former British ambassador to Washington has reportedly said on a TV documentary.
Jun 18, 2007View in Crawl 4
@digghasnoethicsOf course there was no cheering in the streets. Thousands of innocent people died, we all watched it live on TV, and it was shocking to everybody.Still, while we didn´t think anybody *deserved* to die, we sure knew why America had to face that much hate. And we knew it was NOT because they "hate your freedoms". And we knew it would NOT get any better through any amount of war and violence. We were quite afraid that the US would overreact and we´d get forced into some kind of culture clash/world war III on their side.
And pray tell who the last enemy was who America defeated with conventional weapons?Quaida are slowly winning in Afghanistan and Iraq.Vietnam was a mess, and so was Korea...I hate to say it, but the USA has a bad track record since the end of the second world war in defeating anybody...
blackjack75Jun 18, 2007
"Afghanistan toppled the Soviet Union. "With a little help from some rather powerful friend... in the west. Proxy wars...
hfactorJun 18, 2007
@digghasnoethicsOf course there was no cheering in the streets. Thousands of innocent people died, we all watched it live on TV, and it was shocking to everybody.Still, while we didn´t think anybody *deserved* to die, we sure knew why America had to face that much hate. And we knew it was NOT because they "hate your freedoms". And we knew it would NOT get any better through any amount of war and violence. We were quite afraid that the US would overreact and we´d get forced into some kind of culture clash/world war III on their side.
Closed AccountJun 19, 2007
i agree. and what's worse, an apple fanboy
stephenjonesJun 19, 2007
And pray tell who the last enemy was who America defeated with conventional weapons?Quaida are slowly winning in Afghanistan and Iraq.Vietnam was a mess, and so was Korea...I hate to say it, but the USA has a bad track record since the end of the second world war in defeating anybody...
sam991Jun 30, 2007
"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."- Ripley, Aliens.