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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: bentway who wrote (652164)4/20/2012 5:18:00 PM
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>> Obama made bin Laden a priority again.

Perhaps, although I've seen no evidence of this.

The important point is that bin Laden was meaningless when the Seals got him. One need look no further than the incident itself for evidence: Instead of interrogating him, they killed him unnecessarily and dumped his body in the ocean.

Had bin Laden been an important figure they would have needed to interrogate him -- even if not with appropriate Bush-era techniques, then with Obama-era techniques that Obama claims "work".

Bin Laden's capture was a revenge and political event but not one that had meaning militarily or in the effort to make the world a safer place. He was finished, and had been for years, at the hands of none other than GWB.

It just didn't matter from a strategic point of view. Which is the reason Bush wasn't really worried about it -- much more important things to deal with.
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