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To: Road Walker who wrote (56303)	7/26/2004 6:01:26 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794294

Yes, mistakes happen in war, both mistakes that look obvious in hindsight, and mistakes where luck just broke against you and you cannot derive any lessons for the future. But I think you may be sure that there was no lack of a desire to get bin Laden, and no reluctance on the part of the White House to have committed whatever troops Tommy Franks had asked for. Reading between the lines, it's a good bet that the corrupt local militias were taking ISI & Saudi money. Who else had the bucks to outpay the Americans? Quite different from Sandy Berger's hand-wringing and legal analyses. As a side note: a lot of punditry about the war in Afghanistan and Iraq seems to work on the assumption that military campaigns can be run as some kind of engineering contract, with all contingencies planned for, and if the unexpected arises, either gross incompetence or bad will must be at play - no further evidence needed. I am no soldier, but even I know that is ridiculous.