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There will always be serious technical and logistical problems invading
someone else's country, such as experienced by the Soviet army, but the
main problem would be that Bin Laden is now thought of as a Robin Hood and
is
liked much better than the Taliban by the
population. If we move into a country without means of escape or control of
our flanks, to find a moving target, who is worshiped by the populace, what
chance of success do we have? If we were to move into the area in a
stepping stone process of full scale conventional warfare to provide
adequate resupply and protection from flank attack, we would have to move
through Pakistan or Iran. They would not be able to stop us, but my point
is that Bin Laden has written and stated that his objective
is to get the west to engage in a way that will enrage the 1 billion Islamic
followers to oppose the western Christian "infidels" on their soil, thus
unifying the Muslim world into one empire again, not seen since the fall of
Constantinople. Bin Laden wants to be the head of that empire with a puppet
mulla figurehead. Do we want to engage Bin Laden on his terms or ours? We
need to
evaluate and study what Bin Laden wants, and then come to some approach
which will go after him on our
terms and time. I do not feel the enraged population will easily simmer
down and accept some neat cruise missile attacks this time. The bigger
problem will be not to engage prematurely on Bin Laden's terms.
Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ullrich Fischer" <uf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Don Roos" <rosewood@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 9:58 PM
Subject: Re: Avoid what Bin Laden wants?
Well said, Don. At the very least, the US will have to bring China into a
military alliance. This may be difficult, but given that China has
suffered from Islamic extremist bombs in some of its northern cities over
the last few years, should not be impossible.
At 9/15/2001 06:45 PM, Don Roos wrote:
>When we think of the fact that an out-of-control war between the west and
>the Islamic countries is *exactly* what Bin Laden wants and has written
>about (and that his aspirations are similar to Hitler's), it is very scary
>to think of the impact upon our sons as well as ourselves of a dictatorial
>leader of an entire 1 billion Islamic people with the extermination of the
>Jews as well as the entire destruction of modern technological Christian
>society as the goals of the dictator (Bin Laden). The challenge we must
face
>to avoid this trap will be formidible.
>
>The initial trap is the temptation to carpet bomb and try to destroy an
>already destroyed country, Afghanistan. That is what he wants us to do: by
>bombing the widows and orphans of Afghanistan and placing ground troops
into
>an Islamic country (which will be the only way to get Bin Laden) we will
see
>a turn
>of the moderates against us and the polarization of the west against the
>Islamic *billion*
>that Bin Laden wants. We could easily find our troops surrounded by
hoardes
>of new anti-crusaders without
>escape.
>
>I do now know what the solution is, but to walk into a Viet Nam trap
>that defeated the awsome Soviet Empire war machine would be tantamount to
>purposefully walking into a trap of worldwide strategic proportions. In
>addition, I became aware of the fact only today that Afghanistan *does*
have
>a border with China. The last times we invaded a country bordering China
>were
>in 50's and 60's and they did not produce a good result.
>
>Don
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