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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (29889)	11/24/2008 1:22:50 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71588

During Friday’s presidential debate, Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, repeated an argument about the war on terror that he’s made for more than a year. ” If the United States has Al Qaeda, bin Laden, top-level lieutenants in our sights,” said Obama, “and Pakistan is unable or unwilling to act, then we should take them out.” ... Different experts have different degrees of comfort with the prospect of increased U.S. military activity in the Pakistani tribal areas. “My personal opinion is that ground incursions of American forces in the tribal areas would have a massively counterproductive effect, undercutting any positive effect,” said one retired Army officer with experience in Afghanistan. washingtonindependent.com There is a huge difference between what the US military is doing versus the invasion of a sovereign allied nation that Obama proposed.