Does it matter if we "kill or capture" bin Laden or Zawahiri?

[Stinky The Clown]

I don't think it does. Assuming they're even still alive.

And if you can "no" to this question, then the next one, it seems to me, is "why are escalating into Afghanistan? The last known location for these two was in Pakistan. And I'd bet any damned thing they're not there anymore, assuming they're still alive. Still assuming they're still alive, I'd bet they're in Somalia.

And as to Al Quaeda, even the CIA says there's fewer than a hundred of them left in Afghanistan.

What am I missing?

Oh yeah ...... keeping RaytheonHaliburtonGeneralDynamicsEtAl in high cotton.

[phantom power]

1. I also wonder this. Seems to me there is always the next bin Laden.

And the next, and the next. Whenever we leave, that region is going to begin reverting to its historic tribal condition. The longer we stay, the more aggrieved future terrorists we leave behind.

:shrug:

[Better Today]

7. Exactly, and then too there's always going to be another Afghanistan

particularly as third world countries try to ride out the depression, at least my understanding is that AQ tends to bestow (or spend freely) its sizable resources wherever they set up their camps.

[Echo In Light]

2. We'd be far better off focusing on the terrorists of Corporate America

Seems to me they do A LOT more damage on a day-to-day basis

[mike_c]

3. the war against Afghanistan was NEVER about bin Laden....

It's about economics and strategic geopolitics, i.e. empire. Most Americans conveniently forget-- and the media does not report-- that the Bush administration approved plans to attack Afghanistan on Sept. 10, 2001, one day BEFORE 9/11, and that the post-9/11 frenzy simply provided cover to haul those plans out from under a rock and run them up the flag pole for a war giddy nation to celebrate. Osama bin Laden is the Emmanual Goldstein of the first decade of America's 21st century-- the symbol of a perpetual enemy that we use to propagandize in support of a perpetual war, for perpetual profits.

[TheWraith]

4. But you know what's really important? Spamming DU with anti-Obama screeds. nt

[Stinky The Clown]

6. Amazing how YOU morphed anti war into Anti Obama.

[pnwmom]

5. If we don't, the next Rethug administration will go back to the orange alerts

and everything else they did to make us fear Obama. More than anything else, he is a tool for the Rethugs at this point. Probably always has been.