The American Invasion of Afghanistan was justifiable.

Thank you for your prompt reply. Seeing as this is the final round, there may not be any new points brought up in the spirit of the debate format. Only rebuttals and restatements. Now, on to refute your points: >>But if Afghanistan did house the terrorists and did not show them or claim to have them and give them up they are essentially attacking the US. Afghanistan did claim that they housed the terrorists. I never said that they did not show them or claim to have them. The only thing that I said that Afghanistan repeatedly refused to do was extradite them. >>To Clarify How was the Afghanistan invasion an act of self-defence? If Afghanistan houses terrorists that are known to have killed thousands of American citizens, and time after time after time again, they refused to extradite them...this is essentially a declaration of war. Not by the Afghan sovereign state but by the Taliban, which has not been recognized as a government by the world's nations except for Pakistan, whose diplomatic ties were strained after that, therefore, not necessarily the government. If your neighbor attacks and kills your sister, and he runs to another neighbor's house, and that other neighbor agrees to house him and refuses to give him up to you...wouldn't it be justified to enter the house to apprehend the neighbor that killed your sister? >>They did wait but not long enough, they could have waited and go more information then just from a video that they recieved. I did not say that they only waited for the video and then attacked. There was at least a month of negotiations with the Taliban, within the UN General Assembly and the Security Council along with the International Court of Justice, there were intense debates and discussions within governments from over forty-seven countries; all within the time between september eleventh and mid october. Even though the period of time was relatively short, there was much done during that time and therefore time is not an excuse. >>I will state that after the AMERICAN INVASION for your information. It is not irrelevant because the debate is about The American Invasion of Afghanistan was justifiable. key word being American Invasion, so you did admit that the aftermath was not planned thouroughly and that we did ruin Afghanistan by entering and invading The word invasion refers only to the initial invasion, defined by the time of entering the borders of Afghanistan to the time of the overthrow of the Taliban regime. Thus, your aftermath point and your pictures in Newsweek are irrelevant because they were no doubt relevant only AFTER the removal of the Taliban. Anyways, much of the damage caused to Afghanistan during the initial invasion and a short time after the overthrow of the Taliban was caused by the Taliban themselves to ruin as much for the liberators and thus cast the invaders in a negative light. As I have refuted all of my opponent's rebuttals and points, I shall now restate my points: 1) After the 9/11 attacks the U.S. was fully justified to attack Afghanistan because it was an act of self-defence. There was viable proof that Afghanistan harbored several terrorists that conspired in the 9/11 plot, therefore the attack was justified. 2) Besides harboring several terrorists, Afghanistan was ruled by a government that was radically dangerous to our own national security. The Taliban were known oppressors of their people and it was in our place to help them. 3) bin Laden is a necessary evil to eradicate that justifies the invasion. Seeing as I have successfully defended all of my points from my opponent's rebuttals and I have successfully refuted all of my opponent's points, the Pro side of the argument deserves to win this debate. Therefore, the American invasion of Afghanistan is justified. I would like to thank my opponent for debating with me, all the readers of this debate, and all the voters who voted in this debate, regardless of whether or not they voted for my argument. I would also like to thank the webmaster(s) of debate.org for creating such a wonderful medium through which we may express ourselves and conduct ourselves in civilized and sanitized debate. Thank you all. Good day/evening/night.