Deri,

I'm very uncomfortable with "surgical strike" missions.  They too
frequently have unacceptable collateral damages.  And how in the he**
is he going to engineer another opportunity like the one in 2005?  If
I remember correctly, that was tried, and failed, if not in the
specific 2005 instance, at another time.

The lack of criticism for Israel is one factor that's frequently
pointed to as contributing to the rise of Al Qaeda.

It may be worse than the Post - He bought the Wall Street Journal,
unless I missed the news about him buying the Post, too.

On 8/2/07, Deri James <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Thursday 02 August 2007 20:43:12 ken barber wrote:
> > thanks kendall, even after reading them, i must say i
> > am surprised by him saying this.
>
> From what I understand he was talking about a surgical strike based on an
> intelligence report of a planned meeting of al quaeda "high command" in 2005.
> Presumably this meeting would have decided which terrorist strikes to work
> towards in the future. Not an invasion of Pakistan.
>
> I don't see much difference between this and the regular strikes on palestine
> by israel "to hit known terrorists". I see very little criticism of this in
> the US press.
>
> Both are "wrong" in my  mind, it just irks to see the obvious dual standard
> being shown.
>
> Cheers
>
> Deri
>
> PS Commiserations on Murdoch buying the Washington Post. You can
> bet "Watergate" wouldn't have been reported if he'd owned it at the time.
> (He'd have used it as a "chip" in the big game - 'tis his way).
>
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all
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