On Afghanistan
From The Irish Times by a columnist named Fintan O’Toole whom I usually like, but I don’t agree with him on this point about the 9/11/2001 attacks and U.S. response to them:
“That was badly out of tune with the general mood, in Ireland as much as in America, of grief and anger. Such was the scale and savagery of the atrocities, so great was the outpouring of love and sympathy, that it seemed in bad taste to suggest that the US response might be dangerously irrational.”
Terrorists killed almost 3,000 U.S. citizens, and the the Taliban government helped them. F— them. We may have stayed too long in the country, but they drew “first blood.” Let them work out their own problems now. Over.