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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence

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To: lorne who wrote (9822)	11/4/2001 9:57:28 AM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (1) of 27666

Sorry, but I disagree. First, we need to distinguish the current events in Afghanistan from the larger goal of uprooting terrorism on a global scale. The Afghan campaign certainly won't take 50 years and I never claimed it would. I don't believe the larger strategic goal will take that long but I used that number because that's basically how long we fought the Cold War. Was winning the Cold War and avoiding nuclear holocaust worth it? Lashing out blindly at Muslims as a group is precisely what Bin Laden wants because that is what he needs to unite the Muslim world behind him. That would be a catastrophe for humanity because it would likely lead to a war of annihilation on a global scale. I doubt if anyone on this board really wants that. So yes, if to avoid this sort of calamity things take a bit longer to resolve then we need to be prepared to exercise patience and intelligence in the prosecution of this war. And that is why from the outset President Bush has called for patience. Nobody should confuse patience with lack of resolve. America will do whatever is necessary, but mass exterminations sort nowhere near the top of the list of the tools at our disposal.

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