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To: Road Walker who wrote (381852)	5/1/2008 11:43:07 AM
From: SilentZ	Respond to of 1580693

>Would you have suggested over-throwing the Taliban prior to 9/11? I did. A friend of mine and I wanted to write a book about doing just than back in '99. Today, I'm not so sure. -Z

To: Road Walker who wrote (381852)	5/1/2008 11:43:21 AM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 1580693

John, The country of Afghanistan didn't threaten us. AQ attacked us, probably no more than 50 people involved in the entire operation. The safe harbor that Taliban provided to AQ greatly enhanced AQ's ability to conduct operations. Would you have suggested over-throwing the Taliban prior to 9/11? 9/11 was not an isolated incident. AQ kept raising the bar in the series of attacks on the US, which lead up to 9/11. I am not sure if the attacks prior to 9/11 gave us a casus belli to overthrow Taliban, but we should have certainly put more international pressure on Taliban government (after every AQ attack) so that they would know that the next incident could trigger war... Joe