Raj Feridun <rferid@NOSPAMyahoo.co.jp> wrote in message news:<fa2bo0973avjg1h797i9b2nqk4l1m3ic7r@4ax.com>...
> On 31 Oct 2004 09:38:35 -0800, mejercit@hotmail.com (Michael Ejercito)
> wrote:
> 
> >> OK, how about effectively abandoning the pursuit of Bin Laden in
> >> Afghanistan, thus allowing him to escape to Pakistan, and
> >> concentrating all the military power on Saddam Hussein instead?
>  
> >   There are more American troops in Afghanistan today than there were
> >in March of 2003.
> 
> Exactly, and Bin Laden's safe in Pakistan. 
   He has not done much harm.

> 
> How about doing the job right the first time?
> 
> Raj
   It took us over five years to catch Eric Rudolph even though he was
hiding in our own backyard. Catching someone with more allies and more
resources in the mountainous borderlands between Afghanistan and
Pakistan is going to be more problematic.


 Michael