@GamTrak 182711 wrote:
The only rational I can see for anyone to think that is the response by Bush of not going after Bin Laden and staying on his ass until he was dead.
I’m sure that it’s hard for some around the world to understand exactly how that guy is still alive and sending the US terrorising tapes at will. I’m wondering the same myself.
We know why, Pakistan won’t allow any (US) forces to cross over into the tribal regions of their country where Bin Laden is rumored to be. Generally, when local Afghan tribes are used (since they know the mountain regions quite well) they play one side(US) against the other (Taliban/al-Qaeda).
Obama’s policy is to get bin Laden and kill or capture him. If Pakistan is unable or unwilling to do it he’ll get it done one way or another. He is quite clear on this policy which is why McCain called this policy “dangerous” in one of the debates sine Pakistan is a US ally.
9/11 was not an inside job. The timeline and events are well documented and in a nut shell go something like this. bin Laden helped the Mujahideen defeat the Soviets in Afghan and became a hero in the Arab world. Then Sadamm invaded Kuwait, bin Laden urged Saudia Arabia to use his fighters to help Kuwait and the Saudi’s refused and went with US aid, this pissed bin Laden off and he continued to bad mouth the Saudi Prince. The Saudi Prince then pressured the bin Laden family to cut of his money. This basically was the start of his fatwa against non-muslims.