--- cornel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Halur, > What I find really surprising is that the mighty USA > can do wonders in space technology but can't get > Bin Laden. Are they really trying hard? > Mario responds: Cornel, first let me say I'm happy that none of you were anywhere near the cowardly attacks, and I hope your feckless Mayor Ken "The Red" Livingstone will live up to his newly discovered fighting words, having learned that sucking up to radical Imams and delighting Gabe by insulting Bush, did not get him the protection he thought he had.
To your question, yes, the mighty US are trying very hard, but it is apparently not easy to find a worm that can burrow underground. Besides, the US is being aided by the mighty Brits, who are supposed to know Afghanistan like the backs of their hands. Of course, the mighty French, Germans and Canucks always show up after the fighting is over and are involved in "peacekeeping". They probably would not recognize old Bin if he walked up and slapped them in the face. What I find really surprising is how some folks can try and divert attention from all the positive news in the middle-east by dredging up such cynical ideas, after ostensibly knowing what Waziristan is like, the double game that Pakistan plays, and the possible involvement of Iran, where some reports say Bin Laden has been given sanctuary. And, don't you agree that catching Bin Laden alive will lead to a media circus and far more propaganda than he is getting right now? They better bring him back "not alive". Besides, I doubt the real jihadis even care about old Bin any more, because he is never around when they need him. The mighty USA, under the "lover, not a fighter" Bill Clinton, tried to look the other way throughout the 90's after Bin Laden ostentatiously declared war on the US in the early 90's, then declared the US the "weak horse" and himself the "strong horse" and let loose a barrage of attacks that started in NY in 1993 and culminated in 9/11, all but the last one while Bill was desperately trying to hide from his own semen stains. Fortunately, by 9/11 the "lover-buy" had been replaced by the "cowboy", who started off by wanting nothing to do with "nation-building" and was roundly castigated by the European intelligentsia for that silly notion. He changed his mind after 9/11, and you have probably forgotten but it was conventional wisdom in ole Blighty that there was no way that the callow US forces could ever take on the battle hardened Afghan warriors. After all, the myth went, the Afghans had never been defeated, even by the mighty Brits and the even mightier Russkies. Well, we know what the young Americans did to the mighty Afghan warriors, and the "strong horse" has not been seen since, hiding like a good coward and encouraging others to die for the cause.
