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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
I want some transparency and honesty, not the bullshit lies we are being fed.
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Come on, Waters. This was a political problem. Are you really surprised at political answers?
The US is wrapping up an asymmetrical war in Iraq. We are expanding the scope of the asymmetrical war in Afghanistan. Do you really think politicians are jumping up and down at the prospect of beginning a new asymmetrical war on the seas against pirates that can't possibly be "won"?
No chance. This is being portrayed in the only way it possibly can be portrayed, politically. "We didn't provoke anyone, we acted purely in self-defense, we acted only when there was an imminent threat, but we really didn't want to." Perhaps that is also true, but it is most certainly political.