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Re: Hold your fire?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 8 Oct 2001 21:34:46 GMT
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Hello Larry,
> If I had 4 choices:
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> 1. do nothing and hope for the best.
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> 2. politicoeconomic campaign that causes the Taliban to eventually fall (as
> the Guardian was hinting was happening if we let it) but puts the NA in.
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> 3. Limited military campaign that maybe captures some terrorist networks if
> lucky, causes the Taliban to fall, uses few ground troops, but puts the NA in.
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> 4. Much more extensive/expensive campaign that costs lots of ground troops
> but results in a new democraticaly selected nation that doesn't contain
> either the Taliban or the other thugs unless they were voted in.
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> (I think those basically (at that level of detail) are all the choices that
> were available on Saturday, but I'm open to other choices if they exist)
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> I honestly don't know if I'd choose 2 or 4. I lean toward 4. 3, which I fear
> is what we are embarked on, seems a rehash of the "don't quite do the
> political job" Colin Powell approach to the Gulf War.
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> What would you choose, had you the power to choose?
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> Just so there's no confusion, that's a direct question which can be answered
> with a digit 1-4 or "none of the above, my choice is X" followed by a crisp
> definition of what X is. (I think giving it to the UN is kind of a "1")
2, even though I am NOT sure whether it actually will work.
But maybe we are lucky and the current path of 3 turns out to be 4 with less
military effort ;-)
Greetings
Horst
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| (...) <snip good ref material> My point exactly. They're just different thugs, not necessarily *better* thugs. If I had 4 choices: 1. do nothing and hope for the best. 2. politicoeconomic campaign that causes the Taliban to eventually fall (as the (...) (23 years ago, 8-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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