"Gord Beaman" wrote in message
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Alan Minyard wrote:

On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 22:09:11 GMT, "Gord Beaman" )
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Alan Minyard wrote:


We went into Afghanistan to eliminate the major training and
recruiting areas of the terrorists, and to eliminate as many
terrorists as possible while destroying their command and
control structure.

It has worked rather well.

Al Minyard

I see!...and here all along I thought it had something to do with
genocide...dear me...

That was a concern, but a secondary one IIRC.

Al Minyard

Well, I knew better than to comment on politics...it's (as you
see) not my strong suite
--

-Gord.

You've no idea if it worked well at all. Al Qaeda might have more members
than it did before the 'war on terror' ... as Donald Rumsfeld recently said
"We've no idea if we're winning this war or not."

And before Al throws out "Well, we've not had any more attacks, so we must
be winning.", that's just rubbish. There was one major attack on the
continental US in an eight years. Just because there hasn't been another one
in two years since means absolutely nothing, and the bombings in Bali and
Indonesia and the growing frequency of attacks in Iraq certainly indicate
that you are, in fact, not winning anything.

Terrorism is about ideology. In this case, the dislike of America and the
West because of it's foreign policies, wrapped up in a cloak of fanatical
Islam. The way to win this war to persaude the people that are supporting
this, in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, that America is not their enemy, and the
only way to do that is for the US to change is foreign policies.

Matt