Thread: Carter might have, but not Romney

"Even Jimmy Carter would have given that order," Romney said of the Democratic president ousted after one term. Obama has tried to portray inconsistency in Romney's position on the merits of targeting bin Laden. Without mentioning Romney by name, Obama has said he has been consistent and if others have not, "let them explain it."

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Poor Romney, just doesn't know that he has to fish or cut bait. Didn't he tell us that he would have obtained Pakistan's permission to go after bin Laden? What if Pakistan said "no can do" to the Mittster, would he have gone after bin Laden anyway? How long would bin Laden have stayed in Abbottabad while Romney was asking for permission?

We can safely say that bin Laden would still be hatching big plans if Romney had been at the controls.

you know it, Obama did what needed to be done, Romeny has already publicly said that is not the way he would of done it

Yep, waterboarding is not OK but assassination is. Great stuff the libs give us. The new bloodthirsty crowd.

BTW, anybody could give a kill order for somebody in their jammies. How terrifying.

Bin Ladin was no longer a threat. Even Al-Quada had pushed him out of their organization.

Nothing wrong with taking him out but he had no more big plans in the works.

Yep, waterboarding is not OK but assassination is.

I'm not seeing any issue or inconsistency there, although murdering a murderer is NOT assassination. That would be YOUR inconsistency.

Originally Posted by kenrichaed

Bin Ladin was no longer a threat. Even Al-Quada had pushed him out of their organization.

Nothing wrong with taking him out but he had no more big plans in the works.

So we should just forget about 911? Let bye-gones be bye-gones? Welcome Al Qaeda into the family of nations? (I'm asking this even tho I'm still not sure Al Qaeda acted alone.)

Originally Posted by Phoebe Bump

"Even Jimmy Carter would have given that order," Romney said of the Democratic president ousted after one term. Obama has tried to portray inconsistency in Romney's position on the merits of targeting bin Laden. Without mentioning Romney by name, Obama has said he has been consistent and if others have not, "let them explain it."

http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news...agreement?lite

Poor Romney, just doesn't know that he has to fish or cut bait. Didn't he tell us that he would have obtained Pakistan's permission to go after bin Laden? What if Pakistan said "no can do" to the Mittster, would he have gone after bin Laden anyway? How long would bin Laden have stayed in Abbottabad while Romney was asking for permission?

We can safely say that bin Laden would still be hatching big plans if Romney had been at the controls.

Bin Laden hadn't launched any big plans since 9/11 so why do you assume he had all this big stuff in the works?

Bin Laden was basically irrelevant from a terror point of view by this time. However the point that Mitt was making is why risk pissing off a still very relevant country.

His logic has a reasonable basis for argument.

Originally Posted by Phoebe Bump

So we should just forget about 911? Let bye-gones be bye-gones? Welcome Al Qaeda into the family of nations? (I'm asking this even tho I'm still not sure Al Qaeda acted alone.)

Of course not but you need to see the forest through the trees. It is far more important to maintain or achieve a good relationship with Pakistan than it is to satisfy a bloodlust for something that happened 10 years ago. We would still have gotten him or maybe the Pakistanis would have done it to be rid of him, who knows.

I'm actually glad Obama took him out but there is an argument to made on both sides.

It is far more important to maintain or achieve a good relationship with Pakistan

Who's to say that our relationship with Pakistan hasn't actually improved since OBL's killing? I'd bet the power over there loves seeing him gone, even tho they have to object publically.

Originally Posted by Phoebe Bump

I'd bet the power over there loves seeing him gone, even tho they have to object publically.

The irony of it is that the Pakistani's claimed to have had no knowledge that OBL was in Pakistan.

Personally, I believe instead of continuing to give massive amount of monetary aid to them, the U.S. should should leave them to thrash about in their own web of deceit.

... same for Afghanistan.