Reply to "Osama bin Laden"

Matt1310,000+ posts

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Originally posted by Dad04:
Matt...the fact that Clinton could have easily taken out bin Laden before 9/11/01 has been extremely well documented since then. See Link

The good news is that I doubt there will be much hand-wringing in similar situations, going forward.

The point I was making was also raised by the article. There was not the political capital available to support a mission that had a significant likelihood of failure. Hindsight being 20/20 and all...

When I was a young, green intelligence analyst these issues were still germane, and that was just before and just after 9/11.

5/2/111:27 PM

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