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Politics : THE WHITE HOUSE
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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (5328)6/2/2007 2:32:55 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 25737
 

Making a choice, during an active military campaign, to *deliberately* allow one's opponents to escape from a trap, an encirclement.


The Pakistanis where not our opponents in an active military campaign. As you have pointed out we are not at war with them.

If your referring to the idea of letting Al Qaeda escape, you have not established that idea. OTOH at Dunkirk, it is clear and without a doubt that through, mistakes, misunderstandings, and/or deliberate policy on the part of the Germans, the British where able to escape.

"entirely different" these two times, because there was a 'declared war' in one case and only a semi-declared war in the other?

I'm sorry, Tim... but that doesn't sound very logical to me....


Your begging the question. "semi-declared war" hasn't been established. Obvious open major war is very different then alleged but unproven low level proxy war.
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