Don't . Once they turn out the hounds, its silly how fast they find your tracks. QUOTE]
hmmmm....i think Bin-Laden would disagree
lol...... Ok, let me set the context..... assuming davey boy isn't hiding in pakistan with bin sack o chicken chit.
What happens once in court depends on alot of things. But rest assured, if he's still state side, he won't be hiding for that long. Unless he ditches every sort of modern anything and finds a cash only way of life by himself in a tent out inf BFE. Which, ain't gonna happen.
Now Bin Laden on the other hand. Thats a bit of an interesting situation. I have a future in law who is/was (retired) in the defense biz. He explained to me for about a half hour once of the complexites of what goes on in that part of the world. oddly enough, there is this fragile balance there..... You have the gov't there, which is semi aligned in a very loose odd way (basically they buy our guns and Humvee's) and you have the rest of the country/ tribal leadership. The gov't is fragile as it is....... should things go upside down there and the current gov't leadership get thrown out, you have a very large problem now in the way of an even more tense situation between pakistan and India..... Both with full on nuke and peer to peer capability. See where this goes now? Its not just as simple as walking in blowing some stuff up and shaking the rat out of his hole and be done with it.
Had the last administration (I know, i hate to say it, but its the truth, G.W. duped us. I was as big of a supporter as anyone of that policy back when)been a little bit more serious about using and commiting American Soldiers to the inital offensive in afganistan and not put the majority of the commando load on Afgan fighters, they would have had that rat. They had him in Tora Bora. But lacked the resources to really go in hard. They felt american blood is too high cost politcally. So it came down to a limited number of special forces and hired Afgan fighters.
So here we are now. People ask why are we there. Think of any conflict that has happend in the last 100 years. A base and presence is maintained. Just the way it is. Like it or not. Unfortunately, the afganistan problem will take 20 years to fix. Until the children grow up and become the leadership of tommorrow, nothing will change. You have a dirt poor country that makes its money by growing and selling opium..... Its a Narco economy. Until they come out of poverty, and gain the abilty and affluence to produce like western/european countries things will remain 100% the same. Which, may never happen...
I think its pretty nieave(sp?) to think we can fix the worlds problems. What started out as finding and killing one coward terrorist man, turned into a crazy expensive way of establishing a forward operating base to secure energy interests and sit in Irans back yard, and stare over the fence while cleaning a rifle if ya know what I mean. We had no business being involved in Iraq, but thats all in the past now. Now we cant leave. Think of all the what if scenarios now. Not to mention, the real posibility of genocide. Seems a bit like bosnia don't it? 3 groups, priorty one for everyone is to see the other 2 dead. If we left tomorrrow, Iran would be camped out in baghdad by tuesday.
Unintended consequences can be a real mother sometimes. We're going to look back in 40 years, and say "what a total train wreck. What the hell were we thinking."
Really what did we achieve other than getting saddam out, and getting girls to go to school and wide spread useage of cell phones in Iraq. I know i'm over simplifying the whole deal, but what a mess, honestly.
Major side track eh....... c'mon snow! I hope you get dave for whats owed and then some Josh. I think being ripped off is the most irritating thing there is. Dave deserves everything he gets.
