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Politics : High Tolerance Plasticity
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To: Gator II who wrote (21211)8/24/2004 6:35:45 AM
From: chowder  Read Replies (1) of 23153
 
Ed, distorts the writing of Anonymous as well, to suit his positions. Anonymous clearly says if we don't change foreign policy we're in a war we must win and to win we must destroy the Al Qaeda forces. We can't be worried about fighting a war with few casualties. He also goes on to say that we can't expect to win if we go out and arrest people. We must kill them.

History Channel had a program on last night about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. They covered what might happen if we imprisoned bin Laden as opposed to killing him. All sorts of reprisals would be taken against the West in order to seek his release. (The man must be killed in my opinion.)

The program showed a former CIA intelligence officer who continuously provided commentary about bin Laden's forces. I believe the man was Anonymous because most of what he said sounded like it came out of the book Imperial Hubris.

What I found most disconcerting about the whole issue concerning bin Laden was how Clinton had opportunities to take bin Laden out, but was more concerned about casualties and public opinion than he was about saving American lives. (One can not fight a war without casualties.)

As it turned out, we lost more American lives than any casualties that would have originally taken place and world opinion certainly hasn't improved.

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