Posted on 10/05/2001 2:30:33 PM PDT by MichelleWSC
WASHINGTON (AP) - Administration and European officials are signaling that a major military action may not come anytime soon, even as U.S. troops, warplanes and ships gather in the Gulf region.
Meanwhile, Taliban soldiers were reported Friday to be taking heavy weapons into the mountains of Afghanistan to await an assault.
There were growing signs that the coalition the United States is assembling for the anti-terrorism campaign is still struggling to decide exactly what to do
Agreed.
Let alone who to cheer, there will be no one left to attack. WORLD PEACE maybe what they are going after :P.
One at a time, guys. And let's do it right. Fools rush in. I believe Bin Laden's network is completely hamstrung right now and the Taliban are doomed. Time's on our side, not their's. They may be able to pull off a few relatively small acts of terror, but nothing on the scale we've already witnessed. If they were capable of effectively unleashing bio/chemical weapons on a large scale against us, they should have done it before we thoroughly dialed up our intelligence and domestic security. For Bin Laden to have succeeded in this game, he needed to hit a number of cities hard and suddenly to really paralyze our economy and our ability to act. Now his remaining cells are in pieces, his funds frozen or else otherwise useless to him, the Taliban are defecting, the Northern Alliance is advancing on Kabul, the Afganistan borders are closed, and the military might of America and her allies are closing in with single-minded purpose. As FDR's speech writer so eloquently coined, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." The war on terrorism is in excellent hands.
Upon what information or great personal insight do you offer this statement?
And please also enlighten us with the details of your plan only three weeks after the fact? What coalition would you have built? What Army Divisions, Navy Battle Groups and USAF air wings would you have mobilized for the attack? Where would they be based? How long would it have taken them to get in position? And after they are forward how do you supply and sustain them with bullets, missiles, food, jet fuel, maps, intelligence, etc, etc? Do you really think the last adminsitration left anything near "go to war" stockage levels on those essentials?
Get a life. Instead of complaining because you are impatient to send someone else into battle be grateful that you have a President who has chosen to surround himself with a cast of professionals. They'll do the right thing. At the right time. And not a day sooner.
Yes, my thoughts too. We went into Panama when there was no moon. The same happened when we went after the Iraqis. In addition, please correct me if I'm wrong, I seem to remember that Ramadan was also going to be a problem in the war with Iraq, so we had to do what we were going to do before it started. By the way, when are the next moonless nights through November and when is Ramadan?
Have you been peaking in my windows again:?
You are probably correct, but, no matter what, SOMEthing in the way of attack, whether consequential or not, whether effective or not, had better be done before they hit us big again. If that happens, we have serious problems, not the least (and not the greatest) of which being GWB is political toast.
If these guys were inside our borders we would be surrounding them and waiting them out. Is it a bad strategy if we get ourselves in a posistion where bin Laden cannot have access to cash, has no outside communications, no allies that can assist him, we purchase the favor of the Taliban with 300 million, we get closer to his hidden cells in the US and we slowly tighten the noose on the political, economic and military fronts ?
As long as we control the board, so to speak, whats the rush ?
How can you be sure he doesn't want to see the soufflé totally collapse? Today he's focused on tax cuts. It doesn't sound like he's on a wartime footing anymore to me.
Contrast this with his father's "rallying the troops" mode before Desert Storm. I remember it well. From the time he decided to go to war soon after Saddam invaded, he gave a new speech every day equating Saddam with Hitler and the like. None of the speeches from August of 1990 to January of 1991 were about tax cuts (maybe because he already knew he was about to go back on his "read my lips" promise and raise them instead, but that's another kettle of fish).
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