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>>I know you are smarter than this, so I assume you are just throwing out alternative scenarios for the sake of argument.
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>>But really, in this case the success makes it pretty obvious this was carried out by people who *really* knew what they were doing and got exactoly what they came for...
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>Here we can agree in full.
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>So now next naive question {g}
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>Ok OBL is dead. 'Mission accomplished'
>Will you be now leaving Afganistan ?
The mission in Afghanistan is not OBL or even Al Queda - it is Pakistan.
If I had to seize the Pakistan nukes tomorrow I'd rather do it from Afghanistan than a carrier in the Indian Ocean.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
