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To: carranza2 who wrote (39402)	4/14/2004 2:23:55 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793912

Not incendiary. Interesting thoughts, actually. Reminds me of something Bush touched on last night but didn't properly develop, namely, the flak he would have gotten if he had tried to act preemptively in Afghanistan. Unlike others, he had the intellectual honesty to say that it was impossible to do so even if he wanted because the relationship with Pakistan had not been, ahem, rearranged. Take a look at the Coll book, Ghost Warriors. That precise problem was the most fundamental stumbling block from the late 80s forward. It's also the rationale offered by all the Clinton folk who testified before the 9-11 commission. I gather then you are saying that Clinton's failure to invade Afghan is not a failure because it was impossible.