At 10:32 AM 1/16/05 -0800, James A. Donald wrote:
Terrorists, as we discovered in Afghanistan, tend to piss people off. They need a government that is strong enough to intimidate the locals to refrain from killing them.
Since when did a few remote Al Q boot camps piss people off? Religion-based initiation of force pisses people off, just as the Xian right will discover should it start beating women in the streets. Don't confuse the govt (eg Taliban, a faith-based organization) with NGOs which may attract cruise missiles, but not hostility from the populace, who probably enjoyed the extra commerce.
-- James A. Donald:
Terrorists, as we discovered in Afghanistan, tend to piss people off. They need a government that is strong enough to intimidate the locals to refrain from killing them.
"Major Variola (ret)" <mv@cdc.gov>
Since when did a few remote Al Q boot camps piss people off?
Al Quaeda's job in Afghanistan was to perform the massacres that the Taliban could not trust Afghan troops to do. As reward, they got to do lots of rape. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG XS+RbeI9x56+eGEJSL0XpRb/V4lhlvJ+9hIFdozX 4U+LELZqarYEsN76W5PxOcuYS8LCrTCW7z5upagAP
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