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To: cosmicforce who wrote (86117)	8/22/2000 9:34:07 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

The most chilling moment I remember in the Carter Presidency was when Sam Donaldson asked Carter during a White House press conference why Carter didn't know in advance that the Soviet Union was about to invade Afghanistan and Carter's plaintive reply was, Sam, they lied to me! That was it for me... all I could think of was get that guy out of the White House!!! FT

To: cosmicforce who wrote (86117)	8/23/2000 4:29:36 AM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 108807

It is hard to know what would have happened if we zoomed in with a Entebbe type raid. And succeeded. It is also hard to know what would have happened if we had zoomed in with an Entebbe-style raid and failed. It is a lively possibility: there is no doubt that such a raid was considered, and that one of the main reasons why it was not implemented was that the probability of failure was deemed unacceptable. If he'd said "rip 'em a new one" and did, it is possible that we'd have had even more of the World Trade Center type events. It's easy to say such things, hard to do them. Who would have provided the forward staging area? What country in that region, in the political climate of the day, would have played host to the operation? It's easy to blame the Afghan invasion on Carter; hard to say what he could have done to prevent it.