"thunder" <thunderTAKEOUT@gti.net> wrote in message
news:pan.2003.11.24.20.30.56.483464@gti.net...
> On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 06:56:30 -0800, Errant_Eye wrote:
>
> > The challenge was to name one good thing accomplished by Bush.  Is the
> > second highest quarterly growth rate a good thing or not?  I don't like
> > big gov't and think Bush is taking us down the wrong economic road with
> > all this spending.  BUT do YOU think big government is bad? If not, then
> > there is another thing you can call good.
>
> The growth rate is a good thing, but it will take more than one quarter to
> make up for the past three years.
>
> >
> >> > 6) If tossing out the Taliban was a good thing, was it not also the
> >> > President who approved the unusual war plan, over the objections of
> >> > the Pentagon, that lead to relatively inexpensive combat in
> >> > Afghanistan? Inexpensive both in terms of lives and dollars?
> >>
> >> Perhaps if we had a more skilled President, bin Laden and his cohorts
> >> would have been brought to justice (the Taliban offered to hand him
over
> >> on more than one occasion), Afghanistan would not be laying in ruins,
> >> wouldn't be the number one supplier of heroin, and our soldiers in
> >> Afghanistan could be moved to Iraq to help locate those pesky WMDs.
> > Agreed.  But the challenge was to name one good thing accomplished under
> > Bush.  Was overthrowing the Taliban a good thing or not?  Feel free to
> > argue that Bush has screwed up post-overthrow, I'll agree with much of
> > what you say, but return to the question please - was it a good thing to
> > overthrow the Taliban, removing a safe haven from al-Qaeda and
destroying
> > extensive al-Qaeda infrastructure?
>
> Honestly, I'm not sure.  al Qaeda attacked this country, and I would agree
> to doing whatever it takes to eliminate them.  If that meant removing the
> Taliban, so be it, but I'm not sure that was the case.  al Qaeda is the
> enemy, not the Taliban.  While I may not prefer to live under Taliban
> rule, I'm thinking that the Afghans were better off under their rule, than
> the mess they live under now.

You can't be serious.  Women can now be educated, work, run for office,
teach, etc.