[Bad~Rodeo]

OBL hiding in the mountain region of Kashmir

[The Vast Right Wing]

That means the job is two-thirds unfinished in my mind.

[TonyBanks]

"US military chiefs believe up to a third of Osama bin Laden's most senior lieutenants have been killed in the war in Afghanistan. "

How many times have we heard that "Osama's number X man was killed"?

Are they promoting them faster than we can kill them?

[Pistias]

You know, at this rate there won't be anyone in the upper echelons to put on trial. I think they outght to be tried before a court of law on American soil...but if there's no one left alive, who will there be to accuse, and present evidence of guilt about?

[McGavin999]

OBL won't be "located" until the Afghanis have a decent chance for a stable government. We won't be peacekeepers, but our presense will keep things under control. Meanwhile, every once in awhile there will be some "bad" intelligence where some "friend" of the new administration will be bombed in error and the Afghan people will be safer as a result.

[bjcintennessee]

I kind of like the idea of OBL still being alive. This way he can witness the death and destruction his actions have brought to his own people.

We'll probably get him eventually (if we haven't already), but for now he is a powerless freak, forced to hide while we methodically destroy his creation. I wonder if he thought our retribution for 9-11 would be as weak and inconsequential as our response to previous attacks on our embassies and military overseas.

[Young Rhino]

Some pessimists look at the body bags as 2/3s empty. I choose to look at them as 1/3 full. :-)

[ppaul]

[Duckdog]

One third, well, its a start.

[curmudgeonII]

Typical military speach. In my book, up to a third means no more than one third, at the most.
They haven't really said very much. [It could also mean zero.]