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So you believe that tracking down and putting out of business the people who planned, funded, and engineered the bombings of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon is not a worthy objective? That's a fair question to ask, given the paradigm of "military solution or no solution" that we have become accustomed to in thes country. Do you believe that tracking down and and putting out of business the people who planned, funded, and engineered the bombings of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon will be better accomplished by doubling the effort that has failed for seven years, or by making a different kind of effort?
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What is wrong with Norman Rockwell? He's dead. Yours, Issodhos
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Sorry, I didn't mean to be insulting. I've edited my post. The question was superfluous.
Steve Give us the wisdom to teach our children to love,
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Do you believe that tracking down and and putting out of business the people who planned, funded, and engineered the bombings of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon will be better accomplished by doubling the effort that has failed for seven years, or by making a different kind of effort? Not being privy to meaningful intelligence about capability and distribution of hostile forces, hard to be very cogent, but IMHO it will take both: a greater force in terms of capacity and a different force at least with respect to strategy AND tactics. As the Russians ably demonstrated, sheer force is not enough in a nation with so tribal a history and so hostile a terrain. (Of course, the U.S. demonstrated the same limitation of brute force in Southeast Asia.
"The white men were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to." Dee Brown
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So you believe that tracking down and putting out of business the people who planned, funded, and engineered the bombings of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon is not a worthy objective? Do you believe that tracking down and and putting out of business the people who planned, funded, and engineered the bombings of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon will be better accomplished by doubling the effort that has failed for seven years, or by making a different kind of effort? If American forces are having difficulty tracking down the guilty parties in Afghanistan and Pakistan, perhaps they would have greater success in Texas ---- at least, after January 20. -
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That got me smilin' numan. Good one.
Steve Give us the wisdom to teach our children to love,
to respect and be kind to one another,
so that we may grow with peace in mind.
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