>>>>I don't know. There are those who believe it has served the Bush administration's purposes to have Mr. bin Laden and associates alive and well, still provoking us.
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>>>>With all the military firepower the U.S. has, I refuse to believe there is anyone we couldn't hunt down.
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>>>There are limits to the number of haystacks one'd want to burn to find a needle. Specially when the needle is a reason to charge outrageous money for the folks (did I hear "contractors"? tsk tsk...) who are supposedly guarding all of them haystacks.
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>>Needles don't kill 3000 Americans in one day. So I would say the search should go on for as long as it takes.
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>OBL isn't a needle, and the world isn't a haystack - but you can't just go attack every country where he finds sanctuary, specially if the country is sort of an ally.
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>So, really, why does it take so long?
Repeating one last time (sigh) -- I am not saying we should attack Pakistan. (Our "sort of ally" -- apt phrase). I am saying we should go into the remote mountain areas in eastern Pakistan, where Osama bin Laden is reputed to be, and looking for him. That's a quite different thing.
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