Must we kill Osama bin Laden...
...In order to win the war in Afghanistan or is breaking the Taliban sufficient? Can we even win this war?
Kill Osama bin Laden
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Break the Taliban
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I personally don't think we can win this war without killing Osama bin Laden. I doubt that breaking or crippling the Taliban or Al-Qaeda would be considered a win for us. Given the topography of the region I don't think we can smoke them all out of their mountainous dugouts or small villages without great loss of life to our soldiers. I think I've lost the objective to this mission!!! Side: Kill Osama bin Laden
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What are you talking about? How could crippling the Taliban or Al-Qaeda ever not be the win? It's the whole point. Osama is a personality, he doesn't exert influence anymore, and truth be told is probably already dead. Muslim Totalitarianism, religious like Al-Qaeda or political like the Taliban, is the enemy. Side: Break the Taliban
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I hear what you're saying hamandcheese but I worry that because they are so scattered if we'll ever be able to crush them. I don't know if bin Laden is dead or not but if he isn't, wouldn't he always be at the center of the rallying cry for the Taliban and Al-Qaeda? Side: Kill Osama bin Laden
There is no doubt in my mind that he should be executed by a firing squad or by hanging. Why? Because simply wiping out the Taliban is not going to stop bin laden's world-wide terrorist organization. Al Quaeda is international, not regional. If we really wanted to hurt these murderous psychopaths, you got to hit them where it hurts the most: $$$$$$$....which primarily comes from heroin trade and private donations from wealthy sheiks and similar. No money, no weapons, no traveling. In southeast europe, especially in so-called Kosovo, heroin trade is the main export, something that 99 percent of the world does not know. The main route is Afghanistan-Turkey/Iran-Kosovo/ Side: Kill Osama bin Laden
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Yes, let's do "drastic action X" and watch the Afghan people throw away centuries of culture of local warlords, embrace western-style democracy, and rejoice as McDonalds spontaneously pop everywhere overnight. The cold, unpleasant truth is that there's nothing to win there, particularly not by quick and forceful military action. Osama bin Laden is just a figurehead. He might already be dead, he might not, and it doesn't make a lick of difference. Side: Dance Dance Revolution
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