 | dpostoskie (7)
05/04/2005 | I don't know if he ever really cared. Bin Laden has a lot more friends than any of us know. We are suppose to be the most powerful country in the world with unlimited resouces and unbelieveable technology. If our government really gave a rats a** about getting Binny, he'd be six feet under getting to know his 70plus virgins.
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 | abichara (60)
10/07/2004 |  Well at least he knows that Osama bin Laden attacked America! He made this quote after the rather disasterous Tora Bora operation when we let bin Laden escape into the Hindu Kush. Like in Iraq, I think we declare victory too early in Afghanistan. The problem as I see it is that lot of the people in the Pentagon are still thinking in terms of a World War 2 paradigm. Those who question the effectiveness of our war strategies are somehow compared to appeasers in the mold of Neville Chamberlain. To them, merely toppling a regime means victory. The problem with this basic approach that we've taken in both Iraq and Afghanistan is that, yes, we may have achieved our objective in toppling the regimes in place, but the victory was far from total. Politically in both countries, we've left a bigger mess than was there before, thus leaving the door open for even bigger problems than were present beforehand. I do think we were correct to go into Afghanistan, but I think we should have made a stronger commitment to rooting out terrorism there and putting more boots on the ground there as opposed to in Iraq. Merely toppling the Taliban hasn't solved our problems, indeed, many regions in the country are still ruled by them. Hamid Karzai, the leader of that country, still hasn't established strong political ties there. Admittedly it is a difficult situation--it is such a fragmented country. We do have an obligation to find bin Laden and leave that country a better place than it was before. To do anything less would be irresponsible of us. At the same time, we do need something of an exit strategy.
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 | Anonymous (1)
08/04/2004 | Ha, ha, ha! I always knew he didn't really care about finding Osama Bin Laden (except to reveal him a week before the election for political purposes).
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 | Joe23665 (0)
07/08/2004 | Hmmm, seems like a flip-flop to me. I actually think he's been back and forth 3 or 4 times, depending on the polls he doesn't look at.
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