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To: TigerPaw who wrote (11017)	2/6/2006 7:28:18 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 543631

They would be quiet, Al Qaida would be quiet Only in the patch of Afghanistan that you are rolling through. Moving across Afghanistan in force from one side to the other is relatively irrelevant. You have to stick around for awhile. If we had never fired a shot in anger or put a boot on the ground in Iraq, if we had never sent a single aircraft in to Iraqi airspace, or even sent a stern letter of reprimand to Saddam, we would not have had 130,000 soldiers in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is a very different situation than Iraq. If Iraq took at of the resources that would have been useful in Afghanistan it is resources at the margin, another couple of thousand soldiers maybe, or a few special forces teams, not something that would have changed the whole complexion of the conflict in Afghanistan. Tim