# Origin of the US preoccupation with Military and War

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**Created:** [November 23, 2004, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-the-us-preoccupation-with-military-and-war/276264 "2004-11-23T13:10:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![ZombiesAteMyBrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ZombiesAteMyBrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZombiesAteMyBrain)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2004, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-the-us-preoccupation-with-military-and-war/276264/101 "2004-11-27T18:06:27Z")

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> War wasn’t the first option. The Taliban could have handed over Bin Laden and the others responsible for the WTC attacks and Saddam could have allowed unfettered access to UN inspectors. Both these wars could have been averted if they had complied with our very reasonable demands.

The Taliban did offer to hand over Bin Laden  
[http://www.world-crisis.com/analysis\_comments/936\_0\_15\_0\_C34/](http://www.world-crisis.com/analysis_comments/936_0_15_0_C34/)

The USA told the weapons inspectors to leave Iraq  
[http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-03-17-inspectors-iraq\_x.htm](http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-03-17-inspectors-iraq_x.htm)

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