Do Not Be Confused

...The incident that occurred on September 11, 2001 was, straight up, by definition, a strategic behind-the-lines guerilla attack by a group that had declared war on us. It was not random. It was a carefully planned assault on two strategic targets. It was an act of war.

The World Trade Center is exactly what it says it is. It is where we manipulate their economy in the Middle East. It was a strategic target that was taken out for a reason. They don't like the way that we screw with their economy.

The Pentagon? It's a very real stretch to call attacking the Pentagon attacking a "symbolic" target. I'm sorry, but there's nothing "symbolic" about the Pentagon. That was not a terrorist attack. That was an act of war.

The idea that the fourth plane, the one that went down in Pennsylvania, was headed for the White House or some other symbolic target is pure hokum. The target assigned to that plane was the other side of the Pentagon. The two fires would have fed off of each other and the resulting conflagration would have not only destroyed the building, but, not unlike our napalm hits on Saddam's Republican Guard bunkers in the first Gulf War, it would have sucked the air out of the underground chambers and killed everyone inside.

Even my little idiot brain can figure that much out. It was an act of War.

The response, invading Afghanistan, was as appropriate as any response could be against an ephemeral foe. It does seem that the headquarters of the group was there at the time, so the government of that country certainly needed to be destroyed. That's the American way. Who's going to miss the Taliban anyway?

But then we found out that most of the people involved in the attack were actually from Saudi Arabia, so immediately we flew into the next phase of our counter-attack and invaded..and here's where I keep getting confused...

If you're confused, that's according to plan, in my humble opinion.

We have seen the Enemy, and he owns the Oval Office. He wanted us to take out Iraq, a big competitor. He wants us to take out his other big competitor in Iran.

Do not be confused about this.