Re: Bush and Saudis play same old game

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:45:46 -0400, "Hooda Gest" <Be@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Define "difficult".

Hard to do.

>That is, the assumption being argued here is that
>Pakistan is doing little to nothing. No proof, other than they bad guys
>exist there, to support that.

I didn't say that. I maintain that whatever is being done, there
could be more.

>>...why would you think the Pakistani government would be
>anymore successful in cleaning it up than we have been in cleaning up the
>Afghan side of the border?

Because it would be fighting within its own territory, i.e. it
wouldn't have to worry about diplomatic niceties.

>> >>...why travel to them via Pakistan instead of just going direct?
>> >
>> >Because then the destinations would be known outside a small group. And
>> >those destinations may change from time to time to avoid being found and
>> >destroyed.
>>
>> On the flip side, that may make it easier for us to track them.
>
>We haven't been. Except in retrospect.

I don't *know* that. Do you?

>Who tracked the British bombers *before* the act? No one.

I think the Brits are learning fast...

>Not to mention the howls from people if *we* dared
>started targeting people simply because they traveled to Pakistan. See the
>countless gripes about intrusions into "our" privacy.

Why would we make it public knowledge?

>> >Look at the support in this country of the Iraq War.
>>
>> Yeah. That's largely due to Bush's inept handling of the war and
>> his failure to communicate its importance to the American public.
>
>It is the result the constant barage of negativism in the MSM.

Which Bush has failed to counter. Miserably. :(

>You expect too much from a government that doesn't have a strong popular
>support among its people.

Hey, it's not a *real* democracy. They have a much freer hand to
act than we do.
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