Top General says getting bin Laden and Zarqawi won't eliminate terror

[ECH1969]

General Allen Peck, the number two officer in charge of the coalition air forces command in Iraq and Afghanistan, says "there's no single face to the enemy that we're fighting" and he doubts whether bin Laden poses the greatest threat to stability in the region.

Peck says Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been striking with far more frequency and lethal force. But even if both "high value targets" were eliminated tomorrow, there are scores of loosely organized groups of people in the region bent on terrorist acts.

Peck believes that standing up an effective security force that has the "competence and the confidence" to go after insurgents will be the single most important thing in stabilizing the region.

http://www.ktvotv3.com/Global/story.asp?S=4304412&nav=1LFs

[rosesaylavee]

1. Alrighty then. Just pull out of Afghanistan then, General

and stop wasting our money and losing the lives of our young men and women.

What a load...

[ECH1969]

3. Its called moving the goal post forward

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. It will have to be a "user friendly" security force... if you get my

drift.

[CJCRANE]

4. Top cop says getting mafia dons won't eliminate crime nt

[jobycom]

5. Jailing Charles Manson didn't stop murder. Nor did executing Tookie. nt

[madmark]

6. it would be a fucking start

[Rex]

7. Please don't tell me they wasted money on a study to find that out.

nt

[Mz Pip]

8. They probably

took a poll. :eyes:

Your tax dollars at work.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[FreakinDJ]

9. What a bunch of Bush apologest BULL CR@P

As long as Osama lives and walks free just proves OSAMA IS WINNING

He wanted the US base out of Saudi and he got what he wanted thanks to Bush

[PsychoDad]

16. They both got what they wanted...

Bush got a new global boogieman and Usamma got the troops out of Saudi Arabia.

Wonder when the deal was finalized....

Peace.

[pinniped]

10. It sure took these Einsteiners long enough to come up with this.

I have always assumed these two mythical dudes would never be caught. Hell, one doesn't even exist in this realm, hence his name, Boogeyman.

[Thom Little]

11. No-brainer of the year

[ngGale]

12. If they didn't already exist, we would just....

have to invent them...I'm sure we have more. The 'invisible' enemy!:eyes:

[radfringe]

13. makes you wonder

if the bushies are serious about the WAR ON TERROR?

do we then just throw up our hands and walk away - oh well, doesn't matter how many terrorists we "git" there's always more where that came from.... :sarcasm:

moving the goal posts? weak excuse for NOT "gitting" Bin-laden - you bet

[Catfight]

14. From, "we want him dead or alive," to "nevermind, we can't catch him."

[Rebellious Republican]

15. And since when were they trying to get them? N/T

[PATRICK]

17. Which by inference

then we are not doing "with competence and confidence". No wonder these generals are not good politicians. There are more than a few Catch-22's even when the WH stops recruitng for the terrorists and screwing over our military. Sad.

[0007]

18. How long did it take these dickheads to figure that one out?