richardhutnik on 17 June 2010
| dtewi said: I don't know why he'd use the change 9/11 had as the analogy... |
9/11 got compared to Pearl Harbor. Is that a good analogy? One act was a declaration of war by a sovereign nation, while the other was an act done by a bunch of punk individuals in a network. What is normally seen as a criminal act was turned into an act of war, and launched America on a path of foreign policy that has hinder it, costing over 1 trillion in dollars and costing an lot in credibility.
So, ask me which is worse here. Do you want to say, "but 9/11 did impact foreign policy the way Pearl Harbor did"? Fine, then you can say the oil spill impacted economic and environmental foreign policy in a similar scope.
