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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (190333)6/12/2004 10:27:38 AM
From: SilentZ  Read Replies (2) of 1586656
 
>You use the term "troops" loosely. The "troops" in Afghanistan are largely Special Forces. These are the right people for that particular job. The "troops" in Iraq are NOT the right people for the job.

If we'd had enough troops to have kept Tora Bora completely surrounded in late '01, don't you think there's a good chance that bin Laden wouldn't have gotten out of there alive? Also, you don't think having sheer numbers working on and around the mountains where bin Laden and al-Zawahiri are believed to be hiding on the Pakistan/Afghanistan border would help?

And, most important of all, if we'd had boots on the ground in Afghanistan, would we be relying on warlords to ensure the security of that country? Afghanistan is deteriorating every day.

>Were the Iraq War to end tomorrow, it would in no way affect the number of troops we have in Afghanistan. Nor should it.

Right, because our administration simply doesn't care enough to send more troops to Afghanistan, period. But it should.

>The United States has some 1.5 Million active duty forces. If more "troops" in Afghanistan would help them catch bin Laden, months before a presidential election, don't you think they would be putting more "troops" in Afghanistan?

It boggles the mind that they don't.

-Z
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