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To: Alighieri who wrote (185021)	3/17/2004 4:09:14 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578048

k...make it tangible. What did the US do wrong with the Taleban and how should it have the dealt with them? Actually, In my posts I have argued that the administration treated the Taliban with tools appropriate for a nation state (namely warfare). I may take issue with any other tools had been tried, but warfare can be effective against another country and it was. I have argued that Al Qaeda was also treated as if it were a nation state and that the toolset that worked against the Taliban was used without change against Bin Laden and crew. This is the action that was wrong. Al Qaeda is essentially a criminal organization and should be infiltrated, harassed, arrested, and killed like criminals. Criminals are caught by patrols, surveilance, and enlisting the aid of the neighborhood. Shock and awe techniques dont work because at the end of a criminal investigation there is no surrender or replacement of regimes. We won the war with the Taliban, but they were never much of a threat by themselves.