<< LOL! syzygy........nice list of "options".........thing is, at this point, don't you kinda' HAVE to believe that Taliban & Osama
would pretty much know whom is behind all of these "options" you propose anyway????? That being the case......why would
they be any less likely to strike us again than they would be if we were at least over there occupying their attention???? It
seems as if you don't quite grasp the fact that the only way these people will stop.......is if they either are caught, convicted
& jailed.......or if the just plain cease to exist! >>
the reason for covert operations is not to hide the 'obvious', but to deploy an important psychological strategy that could
possibly work to defuse the escalating hatred among the popular militant classes across the asian and middle eastern
region. they are expecting fighters, bombers, ground troops, warships off their coast. the pakistani governemnt has
granted permission for use of their air space to western military forces. this ofcourse has stirred violent religious
and ethnic words from both sides of the border. the extremist's own government, the taliban's erstwhile supporter,
has now turned traitorous. rather than endanger musharraf's regime further, since we can barely contemplate the
disastrous results of his downfall if a civil war develops, we should first look to what already exists on the ground
(the afghani northern alliance), then consider quiet covert operations, propaganda campaigns, imposing closed
borders to starve them of any arms replenishments, and heightening political isolation. the taliban can be squeezed
militarily and politically so they achieve a status of uber-pariah unlike any outlaw nation before them.
<< Yes, I know what you'll say next.........we can't get all of them right???? Well, look at it this way, terrorism takes
someone with power to persuade people, money, rescources, organization skills, and leadership........just like anything
else, if you take out the leadership the chances of the rest succeeding is greatly diminished for quite some time. Enough
time possibly to thwart future occurances and to negotiate terms! >>
at least you qualified everything with 'if'. did you consider. . . so what if we manage to kill osama bin laden, then what ?
do you think the taliban and their hordes will congratulate the western forces ? do you think osama will not be transformed
into a saint for martyrs the world over ? osama's mug will hang on the wall of every 3 year old's bedroom in the militant world.
if you've seen the training videos broadcast by osama over middle eastern cable channels you'll notice that many of his trainees
are children; boys as young as 11 running obstacle courses, packing kalshnikovs, executing apartment raids. the taliban
recruit their disciples from madrassahs, which are religious training schools that poor children are dumped in parents
who cannot afford to feed and clothe them.
i would think that it would be more effective to begin the destruction of the taliban and all they represent, essentially
'the culture of terrorism', by striking at them intenally, either using their sick religious language to undermine their
own thinking or beefing up the northern alliance while strangling the taliban's supply arteries from pakistan. the
taliban possesse a profound religious hatred of all things western. their thought processes and conceptions of
this world are inbred and alien to us. they don't 'negotiate terms' - they commit suicude by flying jetliners into
population centers and kill thousands of people. capish ?
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