Progressive Kansas City Faith Blogger Rethinks War On Terror

Our Saturday night is for nostalgia and tonight, just for close readers, we share a missive on crusades and then preemptive attacks that promised to keep the world safer but, as always, didn't seem to work out that way for those on the low end. 

Here's a good starting point . . . Check-it: 

"In some ways back then I was part of the problem. My initial instinct was that the U.S., to protect itself from further attacks by Osama bin Laden’s theological thugs, would be justified in invading Afghanistan to clear out the terrorist training camps there if that country didn’t, on its own, throw out al-Qaida and turn over its leaders. Somehow I wrongly imagined that such a limited military operation would take no more than a year or so and would be tightly targeted on the training camps.

"It was naive thinking on my part. Instead of what I imagined, we got an endless war and we got the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in a search for an alleged pile of weapons of mass destruction that didn’t exist.

"It is no comfort now to know that I was wrong and misled about this — as were a majority of Americans."

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