The speculation is that the terrorists were trying to destabilize the region to disrupt Pakistan's help with al-Qaida (they might have to move their troops off the border with Afghanistan):
Relations between India and Pakistan were on a knife edge last night amid fears that Delhi's response to the Mumbai attacks could undermine the Pakistani army's campaign against Islamic militants on the frontier with Afghanistan.So, much for Obama bringing peace to the world. If you thought he could, you're learning a very valuable lesson. We don't control the war, the enemy does.Officials and analysts in the region believe that last week's atrocities were designed to provoke a crisis, or even a war, between the nuclear-armed neighbours, diverting Islamabad's attention from extremism in tribal areas bordering Afghanistan and thus relieving pressure on al-Qaeda, Taleban and other militants based there.
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One analyst even described the attacks as a "pre-emptive strike" against Barack Obama's strategy to put Pakistan and Afghanistan at the centre of US foreign policy.The United States and its allies now face a balancing act in supporting India's efforts to investigate the Mumbai attacks, without jeopardizing Pakistan's crucial support for the Nato campaign in Afghanistan.
India's government, facing an election by May, is under enormous pressure to respond to the attacks, which it believes was carried out by the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, possibly with the help of al Qaeda.
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"There were suspicions raised when these guys were taking flying lessons, but not wanting to learn how to land the planes. If we'd intervened then, arresting and/or deporting them in advance, we might have been spared the attacks".
And who exactly was supposed to connect these dots? The Federal Beaureu of Flying School Snooping? If such a thing had existed before 9/11, you and every other lefty would be screaming that your rights were violated. There simply had never been a federal agency before that had any mandate to do something like that, simply because the mode of attack was utterly original. The idea that Bush was personally asleep at the switch somehow because he didn't have the clairvoyance to read Bin Laden's mind is so childish it deserves no refutation.
And what exactlty would you arrect them for? Taking flying lessons? Trample on the Consitution much?
And who exactly was supposed to connect these dots?
All of the federal law enforcement agencies who were getting clear enough signs of an imminent attack that the director of the CIA was beside himself trying to get people in the White House to listen to him. That's who.
I know the Republicans want desperately to blame Clinton for 9/11, but they dropped the ball because they were the ones in power when the attacks happened. They had the intel that told them something was coming down the line, and they didn't do a darn thing to try and stop it.
The buck stops with the current White House occupant. That would be Bush. Period.
Trample on the Consitution much?
A Republican whining about trampling on the Constitution after the last eight years of Bush/Cheney? LOL! That's rich.
Thanks for the laugh. I needed it.
"All of the federal law enforcement agencies who were getting clear enough signs of an imminent attack that the director of the CIA was beside himself trying to get people in the White House to listen to him. "
Baloney. Never happenned. Cite references other than the Daily Kos, thank you.
I never cited Daily Kos. Try again.
And I could give plenty of sources: The Washington Post, the New York Times, Time, Newsweek, any number of books that have been published in the last years since 9/11, the 9/11 commission itself, etc.
You idiots would just find a way to chalk it up to liberal media bias, so why bother? Live in your little dead end Republican world where nothing is ever Bush's fault, and his administration never failed at anything. Even he's not dumb enough to say that anymore, but you guys still manage. Good job.
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