[Osx-nutters] heard about this ?

[guy hammond]

What Osama is upset about is the abolition of the Caliphate in Turkey in 
(IIRC) 1924. That's what all the references to "80 years" in his post-911 
speech were about. It's impossible to argue that he's upset about the US 
invading Afghanistan because it hadn't happened yet... 

There is a difference between "planning" as the military understand it, and 
as civilians understand it. To a civilian, if you are planning to do 
something, it means you have the *intent*. To the military, planning means, 
literally, the act of making a plan, just in case you ever need it. 
Militaries have plans on-hand for everything, that's what they *do*. You can 
bet that the UK government has a plan on hand for, say, unilaterally 
attacking Iran's nuclear facilities, unlikely as it may be to actually 
happen, because if things get so out of hand that that's necessary, and you 
haven't got a plan, well, you're stuffed. 

G


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Quoting Matt Johnston <pelorus at mac.com>:

 
> Pre-emptive strikes on sovereign nations is nothing to do with  
> Terrorism. In fact, they cause it.
> 
> On top of that, the reason for the strike on the Taliban was given as  
> being revenge for 9/11. But it turns out they were planning on  
> attacking them before 9/11.
> 
> And you don't see a logic problem with this?
>