From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Tue Aug 13 2002 - 10:44:38 MDT
In a message dated 8/13/2002 5:28:20 AM Central Standard Time,
amara@amara.com writes: U.S. considering wide terror hunt
That seems to be mostly old news dolled up as something fresh and exciting.
Bush said in the beginning that he was going to pursue the terrorists
wherever they are. He also said that other people were with us or against us
in our pursuit of terrorist.
Any good handbook on guerrilla warfare will tell you that above all a
guerrilla needs a safe haven where he will be safe from pursuit. Bush is
only announcing to the terrorists that he will find no such place.
However I do agree that Bush cannot afford to be so hamhanded that he
gets the entire world mad at us at the same time.
I guess I am uneasy with this whole picture of considering ourselves
engaged in a war. In my mind it is much more like a campaign against
pirates. Sometimes pirates would construct a den that was so strong that we
used the military against them but it wasn't a war with an independent
nation. After the pirates were wiped out we gave the country back to its
rightful citizenry as we have done in Afghanistan and as we are preparing to
do in Iraq.
Ron h.
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