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To: michael97123 who wrote (176465)	11/30/2005 9:39:24 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The Taliban and Al Qaeda were not the same thing. Al Qaeda had some bases there. I don't think our military is so incompetent they can't do surgical strikes- but maybe they are. I just hate to see taking on a mess of a country (which you then have to rebuild) when you are simply after a small fraction of the population. The Taliban war lords were just after power in Afghanistan, they didn't give a rat's ass about the US. Only a small band of dedicated zealots in their little camps in the mountains really cared about attacking the US. It's kind of sad (imo) that we had to take out a country to get them. I'm sure it could have been done differently, but if it couldn't, then that's a comment on our pathetic capabilities and something needs to be done about it. We can't invade every country that has terrorist training camps- yet we do need to be able to destroy the camps. And the good news is, that if we're wrong about the camps, at least we don't have to reconstruct the country- a little blood money here, a little blood money there, and it's probably fixed up.