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On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:32:06 -0800, "nom=de=plume"
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As you said earlier about Clinton and Bin Laden in Sudan, what was he
supposed to do?

Fair question. Here's my answer... Bush should have concentrated on
capturing and killing bin laden and his cronies. He failed not just to do
that, but he failed to even try very hard.

Why do you think we weren't looking for Osama? Obama has had it as his
stated goal for almost a year, having a pretty good idea where he is
and we still keep coming up empty. If Osama is really still alive and
living in those tribal areas on the Afghan/Pakistan boarder, he will
probably die of old age unless we just get real lucky.

He's in Pakistan. They are a sovereign country that has nukes and a big
muslim population. As it is, we're infuriating the very people we need on
our side.

Personally I am not sure he is even alive and if he is, so what?

Yeah, well, first you cut off the heads, then you go for the body.

Do you really think the primitive things that we keep getting hit with
require some criminal genius to come up with?

Genius no, intelligent yes.

If we caught OBL tomorrow and killed him, there would be 10 more guys
waiting to take his place. Us killing innocent people all over that
region creates more terrorists than we can kill. If Afghanistan is
really the cradle of terrorism, why to we enable them by making the US
the target of choice?
In real life, if we ran all the terrorists out of Afghanistan, they
would pop up in Somalia, Yemen or some other rogue nation where we
have no influence..

So, what's your solution? We tried doing nothing during the early part of
the Bush administration.

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Nom=de=Plume