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To: Poet who wrote (4013)	12/18/2002 8:38:01 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7689

I agree. I was going to include just the final paragraph, as an accurate goad to any RWErs lurking, but decided the last three were really very accurate. But it does look like blundering - first the extreme commitments on OBL etc (remember "He cannot run? He cannot hide?" er...), then the sudden ralisation that this isn't some video game where the big bad is always there at the bottom of level 4, and then the adolescent change of direction... an angry rhino, indeed <g> Certainly a waste of a rare global consensus.

To: Poet who wrote (4013)	12/18/2002 6:29:43 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 7689

So are the indications that they are assisted by the way the US diverted so many resources into an entirely different conflict Any place we find Al-Qaeda we have the resources and will to hunt them down. The problem is that they disperse and hide, they mix in with the local population or they find a hole somewhere. Unless the plan is to militarily occupy all of the middle east, central asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan the military resources going to a possible war in Iraq would not prevent us from continuing to hunt Al Qaeda. If the resources being applied to another area were enough to prevent or severely hamper the hunt for Al Qaeda that would be a sign that we had inadequate military resources but fortunately we can take on a third rate power and a terrorist group at the same time. Tim