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How Many Villages Must We Bomb Before We Find bin Laden?

http://www.truthdig.com/report/it...we_bomb_before_we_find_bin_laden/

Excerpt:

Barack Obama has said that he is not against war, only against stupid wars. One might then reasonably ask if the present war in Afghanistan is not a stupid war?

During the election campaign, the president-elect said it was the “right war” (instead of the one in Iraq), and that he would even support opportunistic illegal raids into Pakistan to seize Osama bin Laden, in emulation of that contempt for international law that when displayed by the George W. Bush administration won the United States so much admiration.

What is this war for? To seize bin Laden and his associates. The American government believes that he and his headquarters are in Pakistan, and presumably has intelligence to support that conclusion—although it has not been good enough for many months of American air attacks and special forces operations into the badlands of the Pakistani-Afghan frontier to succeed.