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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2015
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      17. Need to complete unfinished business explains PNAC & idee fix but doesn't quite get to why Iraq seen as necessary post 9/11.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2015
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      18. To speculate: one problem USA had after 9/11 was that Bin Laden & Al-Qaeda weren't "big enough" enemies.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2015
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      19. A big power needs a big enemy. Pace Romney, ridiculous for Holyfield to fight a 98-pound weakling, he needs to fight another champ

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2015
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      20. You don't match up Sherlock Holmes against a pickpocket: he needs a commensurate foe, a Professor Moriarty.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2015
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      21. Military-Industrial Complex experienced 9/11 as a humiliation. They needed to flex muscle, to prove they can still push people around.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2015
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      22. To have the world's largest military fight off a rag-tag conspiratorial group like Al-Qaeda wouldn't solve humiliation problem.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2015
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      23: So: Iraq was already an idee fixe and all the more convenient because it would be a showcase for USA military might, not shadow war.

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2015
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      24. Further, defeating Saddam would (they thought) cow larger Arab world. In immortal words of Tom Friedman, message was "suck on this"

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2015
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      25. Friedman's entire "suck on this" speech worth a listen for view into Iraq war supporter mentality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwFaSpca_3Q …

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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2015
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      26. RT @kerfluffer Rumsfeld on Afghanistan "there are no targets there".

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2015

      27. Related factor was even after 9/11 USA gov't wasn't willing to openly challenge the real patrons of Al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia & Pakistan

      9:58 PM - 19 May 2015 from Toronto, Ontario
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        1. Sane gun laws now!‏ @T_Bake7 19 May 2015
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          @HeerJeet Ding, ding, ding!

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2015
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          28. MT @digby56 They were also still obsessed w/totalitarian state actors... caught flat-footed by al Qaeda and unable to adjust.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2015
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          29. Last point is worth pondering: Pentagon's whole approach to war is state-based, not adapted to fighting non-state actors.

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        1. Ronan O'Donnabhain‏ @rodonnabhain 19 May 2015
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          @HeerJeet fact of AQ sponsored by Saudis shows potential benefits & pitfalls of diplomacy-imagine weakening that portion but preserving oil

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        1. Skye Rygalski‏ @Skyebtj 19 May 2015
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          @HeerJeet Awesome tweet!

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