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Strategies & Market Trends : Zeev's Turnips -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zeev Hed who wrote (478)	9/16/2001 6:12:28 PM
From: Bosco	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 644

Hi Zeev [and indeed, good to hear from you Clark, if not under such circumstance,] witnessing the appetite of the macho men in the other thread, I share some of Clark's tribulation about being rushed into a war of no end. While I am no fan of Sec Donald Rumsfeld, his recent stmt about destroying the terrorist network, and not ObL alone, may demonstrate there is a reasonable voice in the administration. Yes, there are many ObLs and factions as extreme as the Talibans waiting for their chance to fill the void --- if the admin has not had an exit strategy in place but jump prematurely to satisfy the blood lust. OTOH, the show of force is inevitable. Not only words have spoken, but also it will be equated with a sign of [external] courage. Beyond muscle and financial brain, I think it is also possible to use psychological warfare. Instead of killing off the widows and orphans in Kabul, it is more effective to keep the perpetrators running, forever looking over their shoulders, who they can trust and who they cannot. If the innocent Afghans are not harmed, or even are promised with genuine freedom, religious and otherwise, fewer are eager to be matyrs. When the perpetrators commit a slip up, catching them is easy. Ultimately, one wants to destroy the terrorist network, which, according to last estimation, have cells in 31 [?] countries best, Bosco