Seems it was an isolated mountain tunnel system only inhabited by ISIS.
No real objections to me from that.
2. What's the aftermath of a 21,000 pound munition on the environment and resources of the region. Do a google search for the impact of bombing in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc on local cancer rates.
Maybe you still don't object...but at least we can be clearer on the true impact of the bombing.
You don't think blowing bits of a building in a twenty mile radius would cause cancer?
No; why would it? You cause cancer by damaging the DNA of cells. A mere explosion isn't going to do that.
Regardless, I agree that the US should never get involved in the Middle East militarily. There is NO way to prevent civilian deaths, there is no way to prevent people on the Left from reducing ALL military action to American imperialism.
What reason is there for a war of aggression beyond imperialism?
Really confused what you're going on about, you keep saying I'm wrong but don't try to say why.
No it isn't. That's not at all true.
And no, the cassus belli was not iron-clad. There are only three legal ones under current law. Defense, defense of an ally, and a UN approval. First two don't work, Afghanistan hadn't declared any wars, and the third never happened.
How about Ceasars invasion of Gaul? He had a casus belli.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/dec/14/iraq.military
"The amount of DU used during the Iraq war has not been revealed, although some estimate it was more than a thousand tons."
In this case, maybe they didn't have DU, but there are still other nasty contaminants that come with 22,000 pounds of explosives dropped in a relatively small area (not to mention the 10s of thousands of smaller bombs being dropped throughout that country and other war zones).
All that is true and totally irrelevant, since DU is used almost exclusively in anti-armor kinetic rounds. This is just a really big firecracker.
>In this case, maybe they didn't have DU, but there are still other nasty contaminants that come with 22,000 pounds of explosives dropped in a relatively small area...
Are there? Do you have some reason to think that's true?
"The first time bin Laden had seen the Tora Bora caves, he had been a young mujahedeen fighter and a recent university graduate with a degree in civil engineering. It had been some 20 years before, during Washington's first Afghan war, the decade-long, C.I.A.-financed jihad of the 1980's against the Soviet occupation. Rising to more than 13,000 feet, 35 miles southwest of the provincial capital of Jalalabad, Tora Bora was a fortress of snow-capped peaks, steep valleys and fortified caves. Its miles of tunnels, bunkers and base camps, dug deeply into the steep rock walls, had been part of a C.I.A.-financed complex built for the mujahedeen."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/magazine/lost-at-tora-bora...