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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (127353)	3/24/2004 4:01:57 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Tenet testified today that the 9/11 plot was already underway, and the players either in place or moving into place prior to Bush's inauguration. Given the structure of Al Qaeda, killing bin Laden in Afghanistan probably would not have mattered, because the cell already had its orders. I am surprised that Clarke thinks that Al Qaeda could have been eliminated by eliminating the Taliban. We've managed to eliminate the Taliban but Al Qaeda lives on. And that's WITH the cooperation of Pakistan, more or less. I don't see where Bush would have gotten the political capital to pressure Pakistan prior to 9/11. Maybe the time to have stood firm against terrorism was back in the 1960's, 1970's, perhaps as late as the 1980's. We tolerated it for a very very long time. For that matter, we tolerate the Mafia and other organized crime, we tolerate illegal drugs, we tolerate illegal aliens. If we went after any of these problems with the same focus and resources we are devoting against Al Qaeda, maybe we could eliminate them, too.