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Originally posted by DanS
For just this once, I will make a serious post in this thread.
I don't know why we haven't bagged OBL yet.
Numbers don't seem particularly useful in Afghanistan. Rather, it seems like a good way of getting into a Soviet situation.
While some intelligence assets can only focus on one area, it seems that the methods to catch Saddam, Zarqawi and OBL would be similar. In this sense, each search adds to our experience with methods applicable to all such searches. No search detracts from the others.
Besides, we can walk and chew gum at the same time.
Having troops in Iraq acts as flypaper so that the Arab sunni jihadists are going to Iraq instead of Afghanistan. While a messy strategy, it makes sense in that the terrain in Iraq should be more hospitable than the terrain in Afghanistan. There is also a side benefit that the Arab sunni jihadists are giving terrorism a bad name in the heart of the Arab ME.
Besides, even if OBL is inaccessible in the Pakistan mountains, we can keep creating al Qaeda enemy #1s in Iraq and defeating them. Seems like a steady diet.  |
AS time goes by the chance of catching Osama increases as a. he has more time to find more places to hide and b. enemies of the U.S. coalition increase.
It would also be safe to say that the war in Iraq has increased the number of people actively seeking to kill americans and their allies. More people have died in Iraq than in the WTC. If American lives have the same value as any other then this is a major **** job.
So in conclusion WTC victims and families recieve no justice when Hussein is caught and tried and they will recieve no justice if Zarqawi is caught. The only way justice will be done is if OBL is caught and tried. We should all be able to agree on that.
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04-06-2005 10:03
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