Originally Posted by
Excargodog
So how close is your definition of “imminent”?
And do you seriously believe after 47 years of chanting “Death to America!” they were going to suddenly mellow out in the non-imminent time you believe we still had?
So what would you assume would have been the advanyage of letting that day get even closer?
Dick Cheney's "One Percent Doctrine" turned out so well for the United States. Let's do it again!
"If there's a 1% chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al-Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response. It's not about our analysis ... It's about our response."
- Vice President Dick Cheney, November 2001
Sequels are never as good as the original.