Eliminating Bin Laden

Petra-O IX · Feb 25, 2007

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/4578111.html

FORT WORTH — The Army's highest-ranking officer and the former leader of the secretive world of Special Operations offered his thoughts on the importance of capturing or killing Osama bin Laden during a luncheon here Friday.

They're probably not what anyone expected.

"I don't know whether we'll find him," Gen. Peter Schoomaker, the Army chief of staff, said in a speech to the Rotary Club of Fort Worth. "I don't know that it's all that important, frankly."

Schoomaker, pulled out of retirement in 2003 to lead the Army, pointed to the capture of Saddam Hussein, the killings of his sons, Uday and Qusay, and the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as evidence that bin Laden's capture or death would have little effect on the threats to the United States.

"So we get him, and then what?" Schoomaker said. "There's a temporary feeling of goodness, but in the long run, we may make him bigger than he is today. He's hiding, and he knows we're looking for him. We know he's not particularly effective. I'm not sure there's that great of a return" on capturing or killing bin Laden.
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Sound like an excuse for failure.Have we lost our way? Afghanastan should have been the priority before taking on Iraq and Bin Laden is just as much worthy of being brought to justice.

pinoybaptist · Feb 25, 2007

Not an excuse for failure.
The general is right, IMHO.
The war that jihadists is waging is almost similar in many respects to the protracted war of communist revolutionaries.
It is ideology-based, their ideology being a global rule of Sharia law.
Jihad is not personality based.
The Jihadists see us as encroaching on their Holy Sites and as a symbol of moral and spiritual decadence.
Anyway, that is what my limited diabetic brain tells me.
Others on this board have a better view.

hillclimber1 · Feb 25, 2007

pinoybaptist said:

Not an excuse for failure.
The general is right, IMHO.
The war that jihadists is waging is almost similar in many respects to the protracted war of communist revolutionaries.
It is ideology-based, their ideology being a global rule of Sharia law.
Jihad is not personality based.
The Jihadists see us as encroaching on their Holy Sites and as a symbol of moral and spiritual decadence.
Anyway, that is what my limited diabetic brain tells me.
Others on this board have a better view.
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This seems very reasonable.

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