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Obama administration kills Bin Laden!
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<blockquote data-quote="Kevin Lang" data-source="post: 962088" data-attributes="member: 65699"><p>Did you listen to his whole speech? He was informed of Osama's location months ago, but he said that it took those months to "run the thread to ground" and that Obama had to be sure of success before he'd even contemplate the action.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Why? It would have just been a military operation that no one knew about. Maybe in 20-50 years the American public would have been told about it, sooner if another disgruntled & perfidious soldier were to give WikiLeaks info on it. As you yourself said, if Pakistan had [openly] known about the op, it would have been compromised. If the American public had known about the op, Pakistan would have known about the op. As it stood, no one knew about the op until after it was a success...if it hadn't been a success, still no one would know about the op.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>With Bin Laden gone, Obama has a great opportunity to pull out the troops from the Middle East. It's like the reverse of the 9/11 incident--fanatical patriotism could be used to almost unanimously end a war right now. I'm curious if the opportunity will be taken, and if it is, I fear we'll be worse for it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kevin Lang, post: 962088, member: 65699"] Did you listen to his whole speech? He was informed of Osama's location months ago, but he said that it took those months to "run the thread to ground" and that Obama had to be sure of success before he'd even contemplate the action. Why? It would have just been a military operation that no one knew about. Maybe in 20-50 years the American public would have been told about it, sooner if another disgruntled & perfidious soldier were to give WikiLeaks info on it. As you yourself said, if Pakistan had [openly] known about the op, it would have been compromised. If the American public had known about the op, Pakistan would have known about the op. As it stood, no one knew about the op until after it was a success...if it hadn't been a success, still no one would know about the op. With Bin Laden gone, Obama has a great opportunity to pull out the troops from the Middle East. It's like the reverse of the 9/11 incident--fanatical patriotism could be used to almost unanimously end a war right now. I'm curious if the opportunity will be taken, and if it is, I fear we'll be worse for it. [/QUOTE]
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