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[Michael S Czeiszperger <czei AT webperformanceinc.com>]

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On Thursday 13 September 2001 09:40 am, you wrote:
> Any military action carries political consequences as well as risks to the
> fighting forces, and there is never a guarantee of success, as the United
> States found out when it tried to retaliate against the Saudi dissident
> Osama bin Laden for the bombing of two United States embassies in Kenya and
> Tanzania in 1998.
>

One of my worries is that they will go after bin Laden without looking at the 
evidence objectively to see where it leads. I understand the affiliation of 
international terrorist cells can be hard to determine when there's so many 
groups that want to harm the US. An NPR report stated this morning that the 
suspects identified so far had ties to both Hezbollah and Hamas, both of 
which have the resources to pull of an attack of this magnitude. (Especially 
Hezbollah)

The bigger question is what the heck is an appropriate response? Say the 
culprit is found to be Hezbollah; do we bomb Lebanon? Take over the entire 
country? What's the point of harming large groups of people to get at the 
very few who had anything to do with this? And make no mistake, wether its 
bin Laden or someone else, there's probably no way of getting the leaders 
without heavy casualties on both sides.

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Michael S Czeiszperger
czei AT webperformanceinc.com

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