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To: tejek who wrote (155963)	12/11/2002 1:54:57 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1577883

The logistics of getting tons of soldiers in to Afghanistan, while it was still largely controlled by the Taliban, in a short time, and getting them in to all the mountain passes and perhaps caves and other hiding places, quickly enough to catch OBL would have been very difficult and even attempting to do so would have put American soldiers in to a much more dangerous situation. Our army, if well supported by the rest of the country, should be able to defeat anyone, but it takes time to prepare and execute such an operation. That time would have given OBL enough time to leave unless we got lucky. Also pouring so many American soldiers in to the Afghanistan countryside might have caused the people of Afghanistan to look at us as an occupying power. Tim