Posted on 10/29/2001 3:50:24 AM PST by medved
It is not obvious to me that we have any sort of a moral duty to expend much more effort on Afghanistan than we already have.
One possible approach: Mine every inch of ground for a couple of miles around all approaches to the mountain areas in which BinLaden and his al Quaeda band are thought to be hiding, set satellites and larger numbers of the armed predator drones above the place to watch for movement, keep one carrier group poised within range to attck anything which the drones and sattelites pick up moving in the whole country, and free the rest of our forces for dealing with Iraq. I.e. seal the place off and move on to other business.
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