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On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 23:43:26 -0800, "nom=de=plume"
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He almost got bin laden with this "diplomacy."


Hit a night watchman instead.

"almost" means, umm... almost.

This is a digital situation, You get him or you don't.
Bush "almost" got him too but you don't say much about that.


Bush almost got him, but then gave up. He even lied about continuing to
try
to get him.

Clinton didn't give up. You claimed that his missile attacks were somehow
a
bad thing. He tried and he was castigated for it by the Right Wing.

When you are killing more innocents than bad guys it is always a bad
thing. That is the problem with Afghanistan now and Iraq since 1991.

Bombing alone never won a war, unless you use a nuke and that has the
potential of ending the world as we know it.


I don't think that's happening in Afg. right now... at least not from our
side. I could be wrong. In any case, you've identified the problem that we
shouldn't be there for the long term certainly or in Iraq any longer than
humanly possible. So, what's your solution? If we "just leave," a lot more
civilians would die, at least that's what all the generals are saying.

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